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The Svane Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.2MEducation$585kHealth$250kScience & Tech$200kHousing & Shelter$25k
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $975k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VOICES OF NOTE INC$10,000
GAY MEN'S CHORUS OF CHARLOTTE INC$10,000
TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC$10,000
TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS$10,000
GAPA FUND$5,000
FOUNTAIN CITY PERFORMING ARTS$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS: $10k → 11%GALA CHORUSES INC: $15k → 11%CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION: $200k → 22%SILICON VALLEY GAY MEN'S CHORUS: $5k → 8%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $449k → 8%YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 9%THEATREFIRST: $5k → 10%GAPA FUND: $5k → 10%SACRAMENTO GAY MEN'S CHORUS: $5k → 12%LAVENDER LIGHT: $5k → 17%TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC: $10k → 14%GREENVILLE GAY MEN'S CHORUS: $5k → 10%GAY MEN'S CHORUS OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $5k → 13%FOUNTAIN CITY PERFORMING ARTS: $5k → 8%PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS INC: $5k → 12%APPALACHIAN EQUITY CHORUS: $5k → 13%VOICES OF NOTE INC: $10k → 13%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $384k → 8%YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5k → 9%OAKLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS: $5k → 10%URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $200k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $250k → 17%PORTLAND SAGE SINGERS: $5k → 12%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $200k → 8%OAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR: $10k → 10%CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $375k → 10%CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $375k → 10%CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $250k → 10%CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $250k → 10%ARTSPAN: $332k → 10%GOLDEN GATE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $200k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUS: $50k → 10%HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $50k → 10%HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $50k → 10%CENTRAL CITY HOSPITALITY: $50k → 10%CENTRAL CITY HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $25k → 10%CYPRESS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO (FKA COW HOLLOW SCHOOL): $100k → 10%CYPRESS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO (FKA COW HOLLOW SCHOOL): $100k → 10%CYPRESS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO (FKA COW HOLLOW SCHOOL): $100k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO LESBIANGAY FREEDOM BAND: $10k → 10%SYNERGY SCHOOL: $75k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA THEATRE COMPANY: $10k → 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

MN
NY
OR
PA
CA
MO
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 4 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
15

Total granted

$2.4M
$527k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+28%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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

  • CO
    CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +4%
  • HC
    HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.0M · revenue -1%
  • HH
    HOSPITALITY HOUSE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k

Funded once

  • A
    ArtSpan
    one grant, 2021 · $332k · revenue -49% · 27% of their budget
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CC
    CENTRAL CITY HOSPITALITY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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 Oakland East Bay Gay Mens Chorus

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Sacramento Mens Chorus

The Sacramento Gay Men's Chorus creates entertaining music that inspires its members and audience by instilling pride in our diversity and common humanity.

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco City Chorus Association

Educate chorus members and perform concerts

Philanthropy
4
California Bach Society Inc

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…

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5
New Mexico Gay Mens Chorus

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Voices of Silicon Valley

Community Music / Arts Organization

Arts & Culture
7
New Orleans Gay Mens Chorus Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus

The organization's primary mission is to entertain audiences, support communities, and foster acceptance through exceptional musical performances.

Arts & Culture
9
Chicago Gay Mens Chorus

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…

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10
Puget Soundworks

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Queer Chorus of San Francisco

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…

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12
The Esoterics

The Esoterics is a Seattle-based vocal ensemble, dedicated to performing and perpetuating contemporary choral music from around the world.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golden Gate Performing Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMSHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,033,000 · Arts & CultureHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTSGOLDEN GATE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureGOLDEN GATE PERFORMING ARTS INC+11 more: $105,000 · Arts & CultureArtSpan: $331,800 · OtherArtSpanHOSPITALITY HOUSE: $100,000 · OtherHOSPITALITY HOUS…SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUS: $50,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO GA…CENTRAL CITY HOSPITALITY: $50,000 · OtherCENTRAL CITY HOS…Central City Hospitality House: $25,000 · Other+9 more: $50,000 · Other+9 moreCYPRESS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO F/K/A COW HOLLOW PRESCHOOL: $300,000 · EducationCYPRESS SCHOOL …URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $200,000 · EducationURBAN SCHOOL OF…SYNERGY SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationSYNERGY SCHOOL+1 more: $10,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $250,000 · HealthCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · InternationalGAY MENS CHORUS OF CHARLOTTE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGAPA FUND: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$2,588,000Other$606,800Education$585,000Health$250,000International$200,000Philanthropy$10,000Civil Rights$5,000

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 budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1,250,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,033,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetArtSpan: $331,800 over 1y, 27% of budgetCYPRESS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO F/K/A COW HOLLOW PRESCHOOL: $300,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGOLDEN GATE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSYNERGY SCHOOL: $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCentral City Hospitality House: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGALA CHORUSES I INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYoung Audiences of Northern California: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO GAY MEN'S CHORUS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFederal City Performing Arts Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGAY MENS CHORUS OF CHARLOTTE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSan Francisco Pride Band Inc FKA San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Ba: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSan Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGAY MEN'S CHORUS OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSILICON VALLEY GAY MENS CHORUS: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGAPA FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 13% 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.

The San Francisco Fou…The William & Flora H…McNabb FoundationImpactassetsincFleishhacker Foundati…Center for Cultural I…The Zellerbach Family…Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
The San Francisco FoundationCA18.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Portland Gay Men's Chorus: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Svane Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Svane Family Foundation 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 36 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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