California · Private foundation
Black Swan Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $66k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $666k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Black Swan Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $66k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $30k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $30k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $27k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $31k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $34k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $35k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $34k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Health$174kEducation$80kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kAnimals$7kYouth Development$5kHousing & Shelter$4kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
VT
IL
OR
CA
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phase One Foundation | $56,500 | 8 | 1% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $8,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Paws Chicago | $5,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Saint Marys School | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montshire Museum of Science Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Brentwood School | $1,675 | 2 | 0% |
| Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phase One Foundation | $56,500 | 8 | 1% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $8,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Paws Chicago | $5,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Saint Marys School | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montshire Museum of Science Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Brentwood School | $1,675 | 2 | 0% |
| Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $700 | 1 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $1 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Black Swan Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.
About Black Swan Charitable Foundation
- How much does Black Swan Charitable Foundation give?
- Black Swan Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $66,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Black Swan Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (61%), Education (28%), Public Safety & Disaster (4%).
- Who are Black Swan Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Phase One Foundation ($57k), American Cancer Society Inc ($35k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($9k).
- Does Black Swan Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Black Swan Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Where is Black Swan Charitable Foundation based?
- Black Swan Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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