· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JDRF | $21,000 |
| Bel Air Bay Club | $10,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $10,000 |
| Phase One Foundation | $7,000 |
| University of North Carolina | $5,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $5,000 |
| Saint Narys School | $3,000 |
| Paws Chicago | $1,000 |
| American Red Cross | $1,000 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $1,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $1,000 |
| Montshire Museum of Science | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- POPHASE ONE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +149%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +46%
- PCPAWS CHICAGO8× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- NLNAACP Legal Defence Fundone grant, 2020 · $2k
- LALOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue ×63
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PHASE ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Black Swan Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black Swan Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Montshire Museum of Science Inc: 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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