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Snave 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.

$639k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
67
Grants FY2024
60
Organizations funded FY2023
47%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$52,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 60
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$7.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Snave Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionHealthOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving65$636k52%
FY202360$636k47%
FY202254$438k52%
FY202157$678k60%
FY202049$512k67%
FY201937$460k38%
FY201840$396k63%
FY201727$512kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.5MArts & Culture$867kHuman Services$420kReligion$405kYouth Development$191kHousing & Shelter$112kCivil Rights$106kHealth$106kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust$189,000645%
Germantown Friends School$187,5007n/a
Friends Center for Children Inc$158,76884%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc$154,00040%
Inspiritus Inc$149,00040%
Quaker Voluntary Service Inc$143,00055%
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends$121,0004n/a
The Carroll School$104,00030%
Pendle Hill$100,00022%
Phildelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends$100,0002n/a
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All grantees of Snave Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust$189,000645%
Germantown Friends School$187,5007n/a
Friends Center for Children Inc$158,76884%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc$154,00040%
Inspiritus Inc$149,00040%
Quaker Voluntary Service Inc$143,00055%
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends$121,0004n/a
The Carroll School$104,00030%
Pendle Hill$100,00022%
Phildelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends$100,0002n/a
The Miquon School$98,00052%
Middlebury Community Music Center Inc$92,508414%
Reach Education Inc$92,00045%
Valley Forge Educational Services$91,25060%
Quaker School at Horsham$78,5003n/a
Friends Child Care Center$76,00017%
Friends Publishing Corporation$75,00033%
William Penn Charter School Inc$72,00040%
Nellies Schoolhouse$63,000446%
Friends General Conference$60,0001n/a
Addison County Community Trust$53,00031%
Newtown Friends School$52,0002n/a
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia$50,00010%
Clothesline for Arlington Kids$50,00027%
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society$40,00020%
Middlebury Underground Inc$38,0001n/a
Media-Providence Friends School$30,00011%
Commonwealth Youthchoirs Inc$25,00012%
Thee Quaker Project$25,000110%
Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project Inc$20,00011%
Abington Health Foundation$17,25070%
Avondale Elementary School Education Foundation Inc$16,6671n/a
Fiaria Project Inc$12,00087%
Friends Council on Education$11,00040%
The Barnes Foundation$10,00010%
Hampshire College Trustees$10,00020%
Awbury Arboretum Association$10,00030%
Heights Philadelphia$9,50030%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$7,25040%
Abortion Liberation Fund of Pa$7,00020%
The Museum School Foundation Inc$7,000211%
Philabundance$6,95050%
Jenkintown Food Cupboard Inc$6,5003n/a
Goldthwait Reservation Inc$6,5004n/a
Connecticut College$6,25030%
The Library Company of Philadelphia$5,00020%
Equal Justice Initiative$5,00020%
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc$5,00020%
Urbanarias Inc$4,75051%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$4,50010%
Mals Pals Foundation$4,00022%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$4,00020%
Climate Justice Alliance$4,0001n/a
St James School$4,0002n/a
Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Inc$4,00010%
Rebuilding Together Philadelphia$3,50020%
New Georgia Project Inc$3,00020%
Philadelphia Anti-Drug Anti-Violence Network$3,000324%
The John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc$3,00020%
Plummer Youth Promise Inc$3,00020%
Middlebury Area Land Trust$2,77930%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$2,75020%
Vermont Foodbank$2,75020%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$2,70030%
Landmark School Inc$2,50020%
Arlington Food Assistance Center$2,50050%
Christ Church Preservation Trust$2,50010%
Environment California Inc$2,25020%
Grow Dat Youth Farm$2,25030%
Friends of the Ilsley Library$2,03010%
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc$2,00010%
Project Home$2,00010%
Backyard Basecamp Inc$2,00010%
Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services$2,00020%
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf$2,00010%
Motor City Grounds Crew$2,00011%
Havens Harvest Inc$2,0001n/a
Zionist Organization of America$2,00010%
Cityarts Inc$2,00010%
Sustain US Inc$2,00011%
Natl Save the Sea Turtle$2,00020%
Camp Twin Lakes Inc$2,00010%
Living Beyond Breast Cancer$2,00010%
Joys Promise Canine Rescue Inc$2,00012%
Broad Street Ministry$2,00010%
Let's Grow Kids Inc$2,00010%
Eagles Autism Challenge Inc$2,00010%
Ocean Conservancy$2,00010%
Spoonfuls$2,00010%
Sistersong Inc$2,00020%
Caring for Friends$2,00010%
Operation Airdrop Inc$2,00010%
Direct Relief$2,00010%
Wolf Conservation Center Inc$1,75030%
More Than Words Inc$1,75020%
New England Aquarium Corporation$1,50020%
United Way of Addison County Inc$1,50010%
El Refugio Ministry Inc$1,50020%
Jenkintown Education Foundation$1,3501n/a
Coyote Central$1,25020%
Neighborhood Bike Works$1,00010%
Center for Coastal Studies Inc$1,00010%
Power Forward Foundation Inc$1,00012%
Abington Health$1,0001n/a
WriteBoston Inc$1,00010%
American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center$1,00010%
W-Underdogs Inc$1,0001n/a
Los Angeles Education Partnership$1,00010%
Panthera Corporation$1,00010%
Southern Center for Human Rights$1,00010%
Tubman Travel Project$1,0001n/a
Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp$1,00010%
Save the Manatee Club Inc$1,00010%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$1,00010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$1,00010%
American Friends of Leket Israel Inc$1,00010%
Fugees Family Inc$1,00010%
Washington Bach Consort Inc$1,00010%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$1,00010%
Counseling Service of Addison County$1,00010%
Charity Global Inc$1,00010%
Handel Choir of Baltimore Inc$1,00010%
The Red Sox Foundation Inc$1,00010%
H O P E Center Resources$1,0001n/a
Sky High for Kids Inc$1,00010%
Northeast Animal Shelter Inc$1,00010%
Georgia Conservancy Inc$1,00010%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,00010%
Washington Trails Association$1,00020%
Vermont Land Trust Inc$1,00010%
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$1,00010%
Outright Vermont$1,00010%
Food Recovery Network Inc$1,00010%
The Surfrider Foundation$1,00010%
Heal the Bay$1,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,00010%
Our Children's Trust$1,00010%
Addison County Humane Society Inc Dba Homeward Bound$1,00010%
Sunrise Movement Education Fund$1,00010%
St Jude Hospital$1,00010%
Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County$75010%
Children's Hospital Corporation$75010%
Rainforest Trust$75010%
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$62810%
Middlebury Vt Elementary School Association$6001n/a
Refugee Womens Alliance$50010%
The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis$50010%
Pandas International$50010%
Middlebury Transitional Care Coalition$50010%
Byrd Barr Place$50010%
Druid Hills Education Foundation$50010%
The Food Project Inc$50010%
Lost Dog Rescue Foundation$50010%
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc$50010%
Sierra Club Foundation$50010%
Philadelphia Youth Organization$35010%
Greater DC Diaper Bank$25010%
Lifeline Animal Project Inc$25010%
Paws Atlanta Incorporated$25010%
Homeward Bound Inc$25010%
Sea Turtle Conservancy$25010%
The Coral Reef Alliance$25010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$20010%
American Cancer Society Inc$15010%
Spark Program Inc$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Snave Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust: $189,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetFriends Center for Children Inc: $158,768 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: $154,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetInspiritus Inc: $149,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetQuaker Voluntary Service Inc: $143,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetThe Carroll School: $104,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPendle Hill: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Miquon School: $98,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMiddlebury Community Music Center Inc: $92,508 over 4y, 14% of budgetReach Education Inc: $92,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetValley Forge Educational Services: $91,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFriends Child Care Center: $76,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetFriends Publishing Corporation: $75,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetWilliam Penn Charter School Inc: $72,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNellies Schoolhouse: $63,000 over 4y, 46% of budgetAddison County Community Trust: $53,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetClothesline for Arlington Kids: $50,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetThe Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMedia-Providence Friends School: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCommonwealth Youthchoirs Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThee Quaker Project: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetYouth Sentencing & Reentry Project Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAbington Health Foundation: $17,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFiaria Project Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetFriends Council on Education: $11,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Barnes Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHampshire College Trustees: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAwbury Arboretum Association: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHeights Philadelphia: $9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $7,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAbortion Liberation Fund of Pa: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Museum School Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPhilabundance: $6,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut College: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Library Company of Philadelphia: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUrbanarias Inc: $4,750 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMals Pals Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRebuilding Together Philadelphia: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Georgia Project Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Anti-Drug Anti-Violence Network: $3,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPlummer Youth Promise Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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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 146.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The William Penn FoundationPA27× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd · T Wistar Brown Teacher's Fund · The Allen Hilles Fund · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Neubauer Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Snave Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Snave Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Snave 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.

About Snave Foundation

How much does Snave Foundation give?
Snave Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $639,152 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 60 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Snave Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Arts & Culture (20%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Snave Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust ($189k), Germantown Friends School ($188k), Friends Center for Children Inc ($159k).
Does Snave Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Snave 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Snave Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation, The Vermont Community Foundation.
Where is Snave Foundation based?
Snave Foundation is based in MA.

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 229 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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