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American Union of Swedish Singers Cultural Heritage Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33k
Granted FY2019
21
Grants FY2019
11
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Arts & Culture$32kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2019 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$900
Median grant
11
States reached
$379k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$6,000
SWEDISH WOMEN'S CHOUS OF SEATTLE$4,445
AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE$4,050
SWEDISH GLEE CLUB OF WAUKEGAN$2,820
Individual grant recipient$2,650
SWENSON SWEDISH IMMIGRATION RESEARC$2,287
SCANDINAVIAN WC OF PORTLAND$1,595
Individual grant recipient$1,290
VASA DRANGAR$1,275
LUTHER COLLEGE$1,000
PSU DEPARTMENT OF WORLD LANGUAGES$900
SCANDINAVIAN WOMEN OF RI$725
Individual grant recipient$650
Individual grant recipient$615
CHICAGO SWEDISH GLEE CLUB$550
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ASI CLOUDBERRIES: $650 → 11%AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE: $4k → 14%DAMKOREN: $400 → 18%LUTHER COLLEGE: $1k → 10%SCANDIA WOMEN'S CHORUS OF MI: $470 → 8%ARPI SWEDISH CHORUS: $325 → 21%SCANDINAVIAN WC OF PORTLAND: $2k → 8%SCANDINAVIAN WOMEN OF RI: $725 → 14%VASA DRANGAR: $1k → 8%VASA VOICES: $1k → 17%SWEDISH WOMEN'S CHOUS OF SEATTLE: $4k → 9%CHICAGO SWEDISH GLEE CLUB: $550 → 7%SWEDISH GLEE CLUB OF WAUKEGAN: $3k → 8%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $26k → 14%SWENSON SWEDISH IMMIGRATION RESEARC: $2k → 15%SVEA SONER SINGING SOCIETY: $250 → 15%NORDIC HARMONI: $3k → 11%AUSS MUSIKTIDNING: $6k → 11%VIKING MALE CHORUS JAMESTOWN: $340 → 18%CHICAGO MIXED CHORUS: $615 → 7%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $16k → 14%SWEDISH COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $150 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
IA
OH
RI
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
04the grantee network

3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSWEDISH WOMEN'S CHOUS OF SEATTLE: $4,445 · OtherSWEDISH WOMEN'S CHOUS OF SEATTLESWEDISH GLEE CLUB OF WAUKEGAN: $2,820 · OtherSWEDISH GLEE CLUB OF WAUKEGANIndividual grant recipient: $2,650 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSWENSON SWEDISH IMMIGRATION RESEARC: $2,287 · OtherSWENSON SWEDISH IMMIGRATION RESEARCSCANDINAVIAN WC OF PORTLAND: $1,595 · OtherSCANDINAVIAN WC OF PORTLANDIndividual grant recipient: $1,290 · OtherVASA DRANGAR: $1,275 · Other+11 more: $5,375 · Other+11 moreTHE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE: $4,050 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN …LUTHER COLLEGE: $1,000 · Education
Other$27,737Arts & Culture$4,050Education$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE: $4,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEDISH COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SWEDISH COUNCIL OF AMERICA ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Union of Swedish Singers Cultural Heritage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Union of Swedish Singers Cultural Heritage Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to American Union of Swedish Singers Cultural Heritage Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to American Union of Swedish Singers Cultural Heritage Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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