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The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee at a glance

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The Sanger Family Foundation John Sanger Trustee

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$319k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0178% 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
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$819k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
EFY$1,000
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $3k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $5k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $5k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $3k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $750 → 10%UP ON TOP: $1k → 10%UP ON TOP: $1k → 10%UP ON TOP: $1k → 10%UP ON TOP: $500 → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
MD
DC
AL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$796k · 42 repeat orgs$336k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
41

Total granted

$796k
$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+22%

Still filing today

62%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsRecreation & SportsInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CA
    CHINESE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +2%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    3× · 2022–2024 · $72k · revenue +14%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $36k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • GI
    GRABHORN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -38%
  • AB
    ACT BLUE
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • M
    MIT
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
San Francisco Performances Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
4
San Francisco Film Society

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…

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5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
San Francisco Architectural Heritage

The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.

Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
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8
California College of the Arts

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…

Education
9
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
10
San Francisco Friends School

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…

Education
11
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Opera Association

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Parks Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 92 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)
48/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCSF: $65,000 · OtherUCSFIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $36,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATIONUHS: $35,000 · OtherUHSIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientACT BLUE: $30,000 · OtherACT BLUEMIT: $25,000 · OtherMJDC: $20,000 · OtherVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT: $20,000 · Other+53 more: $261,428 · Other+53 moreCHINESE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationCHINESE AMERICAN INTERNATION…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $24,575 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Har…SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $20,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY O…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $72,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSE…GRABHORN INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureGRABHORN INSTITUTESAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ…500 CAPP STREET FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Arts & Culture500 CAPP STREET FO…ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $11,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSEUM F…+11 more: $13,906 · Arts & Culture+11 moreSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $31,500 · Recreation & SportsOakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsFORT MASON CENTER: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $5,000 · Civil RightsVOTERIDERS: $5,000 · Civil RightsNORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $13,250 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Services: $9,750 · Human ServicesUP ON TOP: $3,500 · Human ServicesTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $15,000 · Health
Other$562,428Education$295,575Arts & Culture$183,906Recreation & Sports$42,500Civil Rights$30,000Human Services$26,500Health$15,000

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

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $24,575 over 4y, 0.0% 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
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 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 ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION ↗
  • 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 GREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE ↗
  • Who funds THE DRESHER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH ↗

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 Fou…Marin Community Found…McNabb FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Tipping Point Communi…Jessie Cheng Charitab…Arthur and Charlotte …Mary a Crocker TrustCrankstart FoundationGordon E and Betty I …Mimi and Peter Haas F…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 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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