· Private foundation
Svanee's 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $678k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,025,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,300 |
| SAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE | $125,000 |
| PROGRESSIVE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY | $107,500 |
| OLD DOG HAVEN | $100,000 |
| PASADOS SAFE HAVEN | $100,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF TACOMA | $70,000 |
| MUSTLUVBOXERS RESCUE | $50,000 |
| KITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF US | $35,000 |
| CENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE | $28,525 |
| CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NW | $20,000 |
| SEATTLE AREA FELINE RESCUE | $20,000 |
| PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| ASPCA | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
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
- PSPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +84%
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +66%
- PAProgressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS5× · 2020–2024 · $529k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- SDSEATTLE DOG HOMELESS PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Dog rescue
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Columbia Gorge Humane Society is committed to promoting healthy, safe and lifelong relationships between people and their pets through sustainable programs of education, adoption and spay/neutering. We will endeavor to fight for the abused…
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
No-kill, Volunteer dog rescue organization serving South King & Pierce County.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pawsitive Alliance and the most unlike its peers is MustLuvBoxers Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 30 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 PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS ↗
- Who funds SAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE ↗
- Who funds OLD DOG HAVEN ↗
- Who funds CENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE AREA FELINE RESCUE FKA ANIMAL TALK RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds MustLuvBoxers Rescue ↗
- Who funds PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RAINIER ANIMAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds DONEY MEMORIAL PET CLINIC DBA DONEY COE PET CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WHISKER CITY ↗
- Who funds Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs ↗
- Who funds GREYHOUND PETS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CAT COALITION ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN DOGS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ALLEY CAT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Charlies Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAVE-A-MUTT ↗
- Who funds DOG GONE SEATTLE ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark · The Bungie Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Catania Family Foundation · Casey Family Programs · The Summerlee Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc
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 Svanee's 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.
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.