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Svl 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.

$610k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$2.5MEducation$1.1MCommunity Improvement$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kHuman Services$28kYouth Development$25kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$500,000
SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS$100,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $200k → 15%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS: $300k → 11%PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $50k → 14%UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $250k → 16%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $500k → 17%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $200k → 15%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS: $100k → 11%PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $50k → 14%UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $260k → 17%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $100k → 15%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS: $100k → 11%PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $50k → 14%UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%St Judes Childrens Hospital: $250k → 17%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS: $5k → 14%American Heart Association: $25k → 15%PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $25k → 14%UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $200k → 17%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS: $5k → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 15%UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $75k → 16%ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $175k → 17%SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 15%ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $150k → 17%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 15%ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $130k → 17%St Judes Childrens Hospital: $150k → 15%UAFICA Capital Campaign Fund: $100k → 15%American Red Cross: $35k → 15%Boys and Girls Clubs of Tucson: $25k → 15%Salvation Army: $17k → 15%American Red Cross: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 8 repeat orgs$655k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$3.2M
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+87%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TU
    THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $625k · revenue +112%
  • PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +15%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • UC
    UAFICA Capital Campaign Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +26%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +87%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
2
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
3
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
8
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $1,315,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITALUAFICA Capital Campaign Fund — $100,000 · OtherUAFICA Capital Campaign FundAmerican Red Cross — $60,000 · Other+3 more — $63,000 · OtherSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $500,000 · HealthSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DIS…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT…PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $175,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK I…+1 more — $25,000 · HealthTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $625,000 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATIONUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $500,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona FoundationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC — $25,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,538,000Health$1,200,000Education$1,125,000Youth Development$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $625,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $500,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $175,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Svl 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%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 · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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