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The Svrcek Foundation at a glance

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The Svrcek Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$340k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$505kEducation$289kScience & Tech$238kArts & Culture$205k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIVOTWORKS INC$75,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ANNUAL GIVING$50,000
MIT$30,000
HARVARD COLLEGE$30,000
LEAF EDUCATION NORTH AMERICA INC$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE IHES INC$20,000
MYRIAD USA$20,000
INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES$20,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$15,000
MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE$15,000
CARNEGIE HALL$15,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$10,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$10,000
BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MIT: $30k → 8%PIVOTWORKS INC: $75k → 16%NOVA UKRAIN: $100k → 8%MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $15k → 10%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $15k → 17%THE STATISTICAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $8k → 11%INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES: $20k → 11%MIT: $30k → 8%PIVOTWORKS INC: $75k → 16%NOVA UKRAIN: $60k → 8%MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10k → 10%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $10k → 17%INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES: $10k → 11%MIT: $20k → 8%PIVOTWORKS INC: $50k → 16%NOVA UKRAIN: $50k → 8%MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10k → 10%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $10k → 17%INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES: $10k → 11%MIT: $15k → 8%PIVOTWORKS INC: $20k → 16%MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $8k → 10%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $10k → 17%INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES: $10k → 11%MIT: $10k → 8%PIVOTWORKS INC: $15k → 16%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $10k → 17%INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES: $10k → 11%MIT: $10k → 8%PIVOTWORKS INC: $10k → 16%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $10k → 17%INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES: $10k → 11%MIT: $10k → 8%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $8k → 17%INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES: $10k → 11%HARVARD COLLEGE: $30k → 8%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $8k → 17%HARVARD COLLEGE: $20k → 8%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $8k → 17%LEAF EDUCATION NORTH AMERICA INC: $20k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE IHES INC: $20k → 17%HARVARD COLLEGE: $10k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE IHES INC: $10k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE IHES INC: $10k → 17%BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL: $15k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL: $10k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL: $10k → 17%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$1.2M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+69%

Still filing today

69%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
Arts & CultureInternationalScience & TechEducationOther
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

  • PW
    PIVOT WORKS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $250k · revenue +42%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    8× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +8%
  • INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +69%
  • MO
    Museum of Modern Artgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +44%
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 Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
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
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
7
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
8
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
9
Berggruen Institute
Education
10
Smithsonian Institution

*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

Arts & Culture
11
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
12
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Ihes 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

13 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. 13 of the 18 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PIVOT WORKS INC: $250,000 · InternationalPIVOT WORKS INCNOVA UKRAINE: $210,000 · InternationalNOVA UKRAINEMYRIAD USA INC: $45,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCMIT: $125,000 · OtherMITHARVARD COLLEGE: $60,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGETHE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $25,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERALEAF EDUCATION NORTH AMERICA INC: $20,000 · OtherLEAF EDUCATION NORTH A…THE STATISTICAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $13,500 · OtherTHE STATISTICAL AND AP…The Trustees of Princeton University: $130,000 · EducationThe Trustees of …Friends of IHES Inc: $55,000 · EducationFriends of IHES …THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC…THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HAL…NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BA…BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE F…+2 more: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Science & TechINSTITUTE F…SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $42,500 · Science & TechSIMONS LAUF…
International$505,000Other$243,500Education$185,000Arts & Culture$180,000Science & Tech$122,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIVOT WORKS INC: $250,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $210,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $130,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of IHES Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $5,000 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 PIVOT WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Friends of IHES Inc ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 18 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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