· Private foundation
The Svane Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $975k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $250,000 |
| URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO | $200,000 |
| GOLDEN GATE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $200,000 |
| CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| CYPRESS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO (FKA COW HOLLOW SCHOOL) | $100,000 |
| CYPRESS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO (FKA COW HOLLOW SCHOOL) | $100,000 |
| CYPRESS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO (FKA COW HOLLOW SCHOOL) | $100,000 |
| SYNERGY SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $25,000 |
| GAY MEN'S CHORUS OF CHARLOTTE INC | $10,000 |
| VOICES OF NOTE INC | $10,000 |
| TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS | $10,000 |
| TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC | $10,000 |
| GAPA FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of your 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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 17 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- COCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS2× · 2022–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +4%
- HCHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS2× · 2021–2022 · $1.0M · revenue -1%
- HHHOSPITALITY HOUSE2× · 2020–2021 · $100k
Funded once
- AArtSpanone grant, 2021 · $332k · revenue -49% · 27% of their budget
- CCCENTRAL CITY HOSPITALITYone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SFSAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUSone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
THE OAKLAND GAY MENS CHORUS GIVES VOICE THROUGH SONG TO A COMMUNITY WHERE EVERYONE MATTERS. The Chorus is organized to promote musical excellence; develop a racially ethnically and socio-economically diverse choral group; present regular…
The Sacramento Gay Men's Chorus creates entertaining music that inspires its members and audience by instilling pride in our diversity and common humanity.
Educate chorus members and perform concerts
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
The New Mexico Gay Men's Chorus is a community chorus. Its sole mission is to reduce homophobia and intolerance, and strengthen the LGBTQ and wider community, through high-quality musical performances.
Community Music / Arts Organization
The organization's primary mission is to entertain audiences, support communities, and foster acceptance through exceptional musical performances.
The Organization is an inclusive, community-based performing arts organization that creates musical experiences to entertain and enlighten, inspire change, and build community. Through colorful performances that blend traditional choral…
Puget Soundworks is an all-gender, LGBTQIA+ centered community chorus serving the Puget Sound region. We are here to make the world a kinder, more inclusive place, one song at a time.
Celebrating all sexual orientations and gender identities, The Queer Chorus of San Francisco provides an open and artistic environment for singers committed to musical excellence. Our performances entertain, educate, and inspire audiences…
The Esoterics is a Seattle-based vocal ensemble, dedicated to performing and perpetuating contemporary choral music from around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golden Gate Performing Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greenville Gay Mens Chorus. 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 31 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 36 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 CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ArtSpan ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO F/K/A COW HOLLOW PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Central City Hospitality House ↗
- Who funds GALA CHORUSES I INC ↗
- Who funds Young Audiences of Northern California ↗
- Who funds Federal City Performing Arts Association ↗
- Who funds TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO GAY MEN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds GAY MENS CHORUS OF CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Pride Band Inc FKA San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Ba ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE GAY MENS CHORUS ↗
- Who funds GAPA FUND ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY GAY MENS CHORUS ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S CHORUS OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS ↗
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 · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Fleishhacker Foundation · Center for Cultural Innovation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Svane 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.
- Portland Gay Men's Chorus — 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.
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