· Private foundation
The Strandberg Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $252k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $833k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUMMER SEARCH | $298,988 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUND | $280,664 |
| US SKI AND SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION | $253,647 |
| ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC | $127,098 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $125,889 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $125,493 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $125,206 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SF (BGCSF) | $125,206 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $102,714 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $102,449 |
| THE MINDFUL LIFE PROJECT | $100,194 |
| Individual grant recipient | $96,826 |
| BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION | $51,278 |
| SF MARIN FOOD BANK | $51,064 |
| USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS | $50,025 |
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 (FY18–23, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The Strandberg Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 8% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 3% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 4 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, 98% 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
- SSSUMMER SEARCH8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +53%
- USUnited States Ski Team Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +69%
University of Chicago8× · 2017–2024 · $584k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- TSTHE STRANDBERG FAMILY CHARITABLone grant, 2019 · $447k
- TSTHE STRANDBERG FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND - MS GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $240k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SFone grant, 2020 · $125k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 81 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 SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE BATTERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Mindful Life Project ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds USA Nordic Sport ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NORDIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Boswell Family Foundation · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company
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 Strandberg Family Foundation 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.
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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.
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