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· Private foundation

The Sevan Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$162k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$597kHealth$248kCommunity Improvement$105kInternational$105kEnvironment$58kEducation$32kPublic Benefit$25kYouth Development$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $152k
$600
Median grant
15
States reached
$182k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fisher House Foundation Inc$46,777
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana$25,777
Blood Cancer United$25,329
ShareBuilt Inc$22,527
United Service Organizations Inc (USO)$21,777
Blue Angels Foundation$10,000
Rotary Club Of Downers Grove$2,500
Folds of Honor$1,500
Crossroads Urban Center$750
Helping Hand For Relief & Development$750
Friends of Front Street Shelter$750
The Bulverde Food Pantry$750
Team Rubicon$600
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$500
Mother Teresa Maternity Home Inc$452
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pottstown Beacon of Hope: $250 → 7%SHEETZ FAMILY CHARITIES INC: $750 → 13%Transformations By Austin Angels: $100 → 10%Wounded Warrior Project: $100 → 16%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $500 → 10%Helping Hand For Relief & Development: $750 → 8%My Bag My Story: $600 → 4%Ronald McDonald Charities of New England: $1k → 14%Crossroads Urban Center: $750 → 8%ADOPTTOGETHER: $500 → 6%YOUTHCARE: $300 → 9%HorsePower Therapeutic Riding: $750 → 8%Misericordia Family Association: $200 → 14%Pottstown Beacon of Hope: $100 → 7%Mission Central Metroplex Inc: $500 → 11%Healthcare for the Homeless - Houston: $107 → 16%Helping Hand For Relief & Development: $750 → 8%ShareBuilt Inc: $23k → 4%Crossroads Urban Center: $750 → 8%Misericordia Home: $200 → 14%Mission Central Metroplex Inc: $500 → 11%Helping Hand For Relief & Development: $750 → 8%ShareBuilt Inc: $21k → 4%Operation Stand Down Tennessee: $1k → 14%Misericordia Family Association: $174 → 14%Helping Hand For Relief & Development: $750 → 8%ShareBuilt Inc: $750 → 4%Misericordia Family Association: $100 → 14%Green Beret Foundation: $50 → 16%Helping Hand: $500 → 8%American National Red Cross: $250 → 14%Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana: $26k → 7%Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana: $100 → 7%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

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FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 58 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
121

Total granted

$1.2M
$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+29%

Still filing today

81%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $238k · revenue +30%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $136k · revenue +6%
  • BE
    BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $78k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • US
    United Service Organizations Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $31k
  • UC
    US Chamber of Commerce Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +29%
  • D
    DIVEHEART
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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.

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
3
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
8
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
9
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
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America's Charities

America's charities provides charities with financial support through workplace giving and additional paths. america's charities also provides direct financial assistance to those impacted by disasters and other emergencies.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Marathon Petroleum 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

119 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. 119 of the 186 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/119
Grantees still filing
84/119
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $237,876 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $120,427 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARITIES: $92,250 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARITIESUnited Service Organizations Inc (USO): $31,250 · OtherTHE ROTARY CLUB OF DOWNERS GROVE: $24,750 · Other+117 more: $226,164 · Other+117 moreBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $216,178 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITE…+16 more: $9,775 · HealthUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $135,731 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVIC…BALFOUR BEATTY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitBALFOUR BEATT…BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $78,000 · InternationalTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $11,222 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 · International+8 more: $5,249 · InternationalSHAREBUILT INC: $44,054 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA: $25,877 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $3,500 · Human Services+18 more: $10,281 · Human ServicesUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $25,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $7,752 · EducationCMS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationArmed Services Arts Partnership: $5,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $3,750 · Education+4 more: $2,000 · EducationTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $30,000 · Environment+3 more: $515 · Environment
Other$732,717Health$225,953Public Benefit$160,731International$104,471Human Services$83,712Education$49,502Environment$30,515

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $237,876 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $216,178 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $135,731 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $78,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSHAREBUILT INC: $44,054 over 3y, 15% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA: $25,877 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALFOUR BEATTY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROTARY CLUB OF DOWNERS GROVE: $24,750 over 6y, 35% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $22,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS RANK: $15,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $11,222 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $7,752 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArmed Services Arts Partnership: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOURTH COAST ENSEMBLE: $3,330 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $2,632 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBULVERDE FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PROJECT OF THE QUAD CITIESINC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,054 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $1,905 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,855 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $1,556 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC MENTORS INC: $1,450 over 3y, 22% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSarasota Scullers Youth Rowing Program Inc: $1,047 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc: $1,019 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS ILLINOIS CHAPTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMission Central Metroplex Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Front Street Shelter: $956 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $896 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $869 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHEETZ FAMILY CHARITIES INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHORSEPOWER THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC: $700 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Chubb Charitable Foun…McCauley-Lindsay Char…Greater Good CharitiesHca Healthcare Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …The Community Foundat…Xcel Energy FoundationTextron Charitable Tr…Truist Foundation IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…Enterprise Holdings F…
Chubb Charitable FoundationPA16.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chubb Charitable Foundation · McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn · Greater Good Charities · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Truist Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation

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 Sevan Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sevan Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Sevan Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Sevan Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 186 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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