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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$5.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $678k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY$1,025,000
Individual grant recipient$125,300
SAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE$125,000
PROGRESSIVE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY$107,500
PASADOS SAFE HAVEN$100,000
OLD DOG 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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ASPCA: $10k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY OF US: $150k → 14%SARVEY WILDLIFE: $125k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF TACOMA: $70k → 9%CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NW: $26k → 11%CENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE: $29k → 11%ASPCA: $10k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY OF US: $96k → 14%SARVEY WILDLIFE: $10k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF TACOMA: $20k → 9%CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NW: $20k → 11%CENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE: $25k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF US: $50k → 14%HUMANE SOCIETY OF TACOMA: $10k → 9%KITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY: $275k → 10%CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NW: $16k → 11%CENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE: $25k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF US: $35k → 14%SEATTLE AREA FELINE RESCUE: $60k → 9%KITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY: $255k → 10%CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NW: $12k → 11%CENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE: $18k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF US: $25k → 14%SEATTLE AREA FELINE RESCUE: $20k → 9%KITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY: $250k → 10%CENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE: $16k → 11%KITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 10%KITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY: $40k → 10%MUSTLUVBOXERS RESCUE: $50k → 9%PASADOS SAFE HAVEN: $401k → 9%PASADOS SAFE HAVEN: $280k → 9%PASADOS SAFE HAVEN: $275k → 9%SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $1.0M → 9%PASADOS SAFE HAVEN: $275k → 9%SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $151k → 9%PASADOS SAFE HAVEN: $100k → 9%SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $45k → 9%OLD DOG HAVEN: $100k → 9%SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $35k → 9%OLD DOG HAVEN: $8k → 9%RAINIER ANIMAL FUND: $20k → 9%SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $30k → 9%SAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE: $125k → 9%SAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE: $105k → 9%SAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE: $20k → 9%SAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE: $15k → 9%SAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE: $10k → 9%PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 28 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
1

Total granted

$5.5M
$3k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PS
    PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +84%
  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +66%
  • PA
    Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $529k · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • SD
    SEATTLE DOG HOMELESS PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Washington Basset Rescue

Dog rescue

Animals
2
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
3
Raskels Rescue
Animals
4
Happy Tails Animal Rescue of Washin County Virginia
Animals
5
Hope Fur Paws 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.

Animals
6
Columbia Gorge Humane Society

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…

Animals
7
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
8
Idaho Animal Rescue Network

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…

Animals
9
Casa Dog

No-kill, Volunteer dog rescue organization serving South King & Pierce County.

Animals
10
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
11
Rescue Coop
Animals
12
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pawsitive Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $1,331,195 · AnimalsPASADO'S SAFE HAVENTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $1,286,325 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTYKITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY: $870,113 · AnimalsKITSAP HUMANE SOCIETYProgressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS: $528,585 · AnimalsProgressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWSSAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE: $275,000 · AnimalsSAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE+16 more: $569,733 · Animals+16 moreHUMANE SOCIETY OF US: $356,150 · OtherHUMANE SOCIET…Individual grant recipient: $140,398 · OtherIndividual gr…HUMANE SOCIETY OF TACOMA: $104,245 · OtherHUMANE SOCIET…RAINIER ANIMAL FUND: $22,000 · Other+5 more: $22,377 · Other
Animals$4,860,951Other$645,170

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $1,331,195 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $1,286,325 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetKITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY: $870,113 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetProgressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS: $528,585 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetSAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE: $275,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetOLD DOG HAVEN: $120,046 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE: $112,110 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSEATTLE AREA FELINE RESCUE FKA ANIMAL TALK RESCUE: $92,136 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST: $78,896 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMustLuvBoxers Rescue: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetPAWSITIVE ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetRAINIER ANIMAL FUND: $22,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONEY MEMORIAL PET CLINIC DBA DONEY COE PET CLINIC: $15,528 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWHISKER CITY: $10,226 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetGREYHOUND PETS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAT COALITION: $8,574 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetFORGOTTEN DOGS RESCUE: $7,623 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetALLEY CAT PROJECT: $6,623 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSAVE-A-MUTT: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDOG GONE SEATTLE: $3,574 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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 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 GREYHOUND PETS INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Gary E Milgard Family…The Bungie FoundationGlassybaby White Ligh…Paypal Charitable Giv…Catania Family Founda…Casey Family ProgramsThe Summerlee Foundat…The Norcliffe Foundat…Humane World for Anim…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE29.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Svanee's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Svanee's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 30 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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