· Private foundation
The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THE SANGER FAMILY FOUNDATION JOHN SANGER TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHINESE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| SF MOMA | $24,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| SF CONSERVATORY OF FLOWERS | $10,300 |
| SF JAZZ | $10,000 |
| SF PARKS ALLIANCE | $5,500 |
| TELEGRAPH HILL NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $5,000 |
| HARVARD | $3,575 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| GLADSTONE INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| CIRCUS BELLA | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF MVY RADIO | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CACHINESE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +2%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART3× · 2022–2024 · $72k · revenue +14%
- TATHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $36k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- GIGRABHORN INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -38%
- ABACT BLUEone grant, 2022 · $30k
- MMITone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Parks Alliance and the most unlike its peers is The Dresher Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 92 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 CHINESE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds GRABHORN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds 500 CAPP STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds NORTH BEACH CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds Oakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW FUTURES FKA CENTER FOR YOUTH WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds SAFE & SOUND ↗
- Who funds THE DRESHER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds GREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE ↗
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: 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
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 The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
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.