Sandler Family Supporting Foundation
- Sandler Family Supporting Foundation
The Sandler Family Supporting Foundation was created by Herb Sandler and Marion Sandler.
In 2006, the Sandlers gave 17,422,751 shares of Golden West Financial stock worth $1.3 billion to the foundation. [ [http://www.philanthropy.com/stats/donors/detail.php?ID_Gift=1975 "America's most generous donors"] ] This was the second largest American charitable contribution of 2006. [ [http://specials.slate.com/slate60/2006/ "The 60 largest American charitable contributions of the last year."] ]
Organizations supported by the SFSF
In 2000, the Foundation gave $525,000 to the activist organization, ACORN. [ [http://www.activistcash.com/foundation.cfm/did/1622 Activist Cash report on the Sandler Family Foundation] ]
In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, the SFSF gave away $50 million, including a grant to help John Podesta start the Center for American Progress. [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/04/BUGS1J7HAC1.DTL&type=printable "How the Sandlers practice quiet philanthrophy"] ]
The [http://www.nwlc.org/display.cfm?section=About%20NWLC National Women's Law Center] acknowledges the SFSF as a donor.
The Sandler Foundation is a "lead funder" of [http://www.propublica.org/ ProPublica] , an investigative journalism website. [ [http://www.propublica.org/about/ About ProPublica] ]
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