· Private foundation
Fanny & Svante Knistrom Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $470k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCE OF PEACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $35,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $32,500 |
| SAMARITAN CENTER SIMI VALLEY | $26,000 |
| HOPE OF THE VALLEY RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| FOSTERING YOUTH INDEPENDENCE | $22,000 |
| FOREVER FOUND | $20,000 |
| PROVIDENCE TARZANA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HAVEN HILLS INC | $20,000 |
| NORTH HOLLYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL LAUSD | $18,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE OF SANTA CLARA | $15,000 |
| VALLEY VILLAGE | $15,000 |
| PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION OF THE UNITED STATES | $15,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS SERVING INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS | $15,000 |
| PENNY LANE CENTERS | $15,000 |
| OPTIMIST BOYS HOME & RANCH INC | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $411k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Fanny & Svante Knistrom Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY VALLEY VENTURA/SANTA BARBARA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +41%
- VVVALLEY VILLAGE9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +64%
- TDTierra del Sol Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- LCLAFAYETTE COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +26%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- PBPEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
Ettie Lee Youth & Family Services ("Ettie Lee") operates residential care facilities, a network of treatment foster homes, a substance abuse treatment program and provides an array of mental health services for young people and their…
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.
The midnight mission seeks to offer a bridge to self sufficiency for people experiencing homelessness through interim shelter, advocacy, education, training and job placement, make available the necessities of life, offer the 12-step…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners for Potential Inc and the most unlike its peers is Monmouth University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 128 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY VALLEY VENTURA/SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Tierra del Sol Foundation ↗
- Who funds Haven Hills Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS - SERVING INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CLAREMATRIX ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING INNOCENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Fostering Youth Independence ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SANTA CLARITA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley ↗
- Who funds Triumph Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOREVER ↗
- Who funds Child & Family Center ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESCUE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPRYE INC ↗
- Who funds Penny Lane Centers ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FOREVER FOUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds ANGELS WAY MATERNITY HOME ↗
- Who funds HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLSPORTWORKS ↗
- Who funds Optimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds WILD HEARTS EQUINE THERAPY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Green Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fanny & Svante Knistrom Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc — 54% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.