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The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$319k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
37
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 42
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$819k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 32% 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
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsCivil RightsHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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 arriving20$315k40%
FY202337$261k43%
FY202242$229k57%
FY202130$153k53%
FY202022$80k86%
FY20192$38k50%
FY20184$36k100%
FY20173$20kn/a
78% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$293kEducation$268kHealth$88kCivil Rights$58kRecreation & Sports$56kHousing & Shelter$33kCommunity Improvement$32kPublic Benefit$29kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
MD
DC
AL

Top grantees

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

Show all 49 grantees
All grantees of The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chinese American International School$250,00021%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$72,00030%
Grabhorn Institute$50,00013%
The American Independent Foundation$36,00030%
San Francisco Parks Alliance$31,50050%
Accelerate Change Inc$20,00010%
Voter Registration Project$20,00010%
San Francisco Conservatory of Music$20,00010%
San Francisco Jazz Organization$20,00030%
500 Capp Street Foundation$17,00026%
The J David Gladstone Institutes$15,00040%
North Beach Citizens$13,25040%
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco$11,00030%
San Francisco Food Bank$10,00040%
Larkin Street Youth Services$9,75040%
Oakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club$9,00021%
Bayview Futures Fka Center for Youth Wellness$7,55020%
Safe & Sound$7,15530%
Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space$6,00020%
The Dresher Foundation Inc$6,00020%
Enterprise for Youth$6,00020%
Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association$5,00010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$5,00010%
The Voter Participation Center$5,00010%
San Mateo County Community Colleges District$5,0001n/a
Voteriders$5,00020%
Up on Top$3,50040%
Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris Inc$3,50010%
Friends of the Urban Forest$3,00020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$3,00020%
John Burton Advocates for Youth$3,00030%
National Theatre in America Inc$2,58210%
Tenderloin Housing Clinic Inc$2,50010%
Glide Foundation$2,5001n/a
Childrens Creativity Museum$2,00020%
Friends of Mvyradio Inc$2,00020%
FOR-SITE Foundation$2,00020%
Kronos Performing Arts Association$2,00020%
Fort Mason Center$2,00020%
Circus Bella$1,50011%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,00010%
Chinese Historical Society of America$1,00010%
Fractured Atlas Inc$1,00010%
Kqed Inc$1,00010%
Oxbow School$1,00010%
Spur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association$1,00010%
ArtSeed$50011%
Fine Arts Museums Foundation$22910%
The Contemporary Jewish Museum$9510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($427k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChinese American International School: $250,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGrabhorn Institute: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe American Independent Foundation: $36,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Parks Alliance: $31,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAccelerate Change Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVoter Registration Project: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Conservatory of Music: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Jazz Organization: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget500 Capp Street Foundation: $17,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetThe J David Gladstone Institutes: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Beach Citizens: $13,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAsian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $9,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club: $9,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBayview Futures Fka Center for Youth Wellness: $7,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSafe & Sound: $7,155 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Dresher Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEnterprise for Youth: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTelegraph Hill Neighborhood Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Voter Participation Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoteriders: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUp on Top: $3,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Notre-Dame de Paris Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Urban Forest: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Theatre in America Inc: $2,582 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTenderloin Housing Clinic Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Creativity Museum: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Mvyradio Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOR-SITE Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKronos Performing Arts Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFort Mason Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCircus Bella: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChinese Historical Society of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOxbow School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArtSeed: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFine Arts Museums Foundation: $229 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Contemporary Jewish Museum: $95 over 1y, 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 47.

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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 San Francisco FoundationCA34.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Tipping Point Community · Jessie Cheng Charitable Foundation · Arthur and Charlotte Zitrin Foundation · Mary a Crocker Trust · Crankstart Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Mimi and Peter Haas Fund

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.

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About The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee

How much does The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee give?
The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee reported 21 grants totaling $318,924 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Education (23%), Health (8%).
Who are The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Chinese American International School ($250k), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ($72k), Grabhorn Institute ($50k).
Does The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation.
Where is The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee based?
The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee is based in CA.

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 92 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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