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Svl Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +87%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +26%
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

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

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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