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Alan & Corinne Swoff Charitable 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.

$163k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$378kFood & Nutrition$196kReligion$167kEducation$94kHuman Services$40kPhilanthropy$25kInternational$24kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $94k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOVIN' SPOONFULS INC$20,000
NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION (NTRF)$19,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$15,000
WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
BANCROFT SCHOOL WORCESTER PARTNERSHIP$10,000
RACHELS TABLE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$10,000
CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$7,500
PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATION$7,500
CONGREGATION OF B'NAI SHALOM$5,360
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$5,000
WOOSOX FOUNDATION$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF MIDDLESEX$5,000
TULANE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL FUND$4,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EMMAS TORCH: $2k → 20%EMMAS TORCH: $2k → 20%EMMAS TORCH: $2k → 20%EMMAS TORCH: $2k → 20%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

IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$911k · 42 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
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Total granted

$911k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+3%

Still filing today

60%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHealthInternationalAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +95%
  • S
    SPOONFULS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +53%
  • CS
    CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -23%
  • TE
    TEMPLE EMANUEL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
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
4
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
5
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
6
Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
7
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
8
Greater Chicago Food Depository

The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…

Food & Nutrition
9
Waste Not Inc

Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
10
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture
11
Feeding Westchester Inc

Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.

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12
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Boston Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is Woosox 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

35 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. 35 of the 56 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
25/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION (NTRF): $81,500 · OtherNEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION (NTRF)BROOKLINE CHURCH OF CHRIST: $37,750 · OtherBROOKLINE CHURCH OF CHRISTST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $34,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITALCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF BOYNTON BEACH: $31,000 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF BOYNTON BEACHRACHELS TABLE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $30,000 · OtherRACHELS TABLE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACH…CONGREGATION OF B'NAI SHALOM: $29,932 · OtherCONGREGATION OF B'NAI SHALOMJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF MIDDLESEX: $29,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF MIDDLESEXGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $28,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCTEMPLE EMANUEL: $23,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUELELIJAH'S PROMISE FOOD BANK: $16,000 · OtherTULANE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL FUND: $15,050 · OtherAdaptive Sports USA Inc: $15,000 · Other+17 more: $56,950 · Other+17 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONTHE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATION INC: $46,000 · HealthTHE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASS…CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $30,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HO…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $29,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED …MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthSPOONFULS: $66,000 · Food & NutritionSPOONFULSWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionWORCESTER COUNT…Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $9,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food …CAPE KID MEALS INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more: $16,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 moreBANCROFT SCHOOL: $58,000 · EducationBANCROFT …WOOSOX FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationWOOSOX FO…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $9,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $7,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalWILD TOMORROW FUND: $3,000 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $19,150 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $3,500 · PhilanthropyEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $8,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$427,182Health$260,500Food & Nutrition$136,000Education$78,000International$32,000Philanthropy$22,650Human Services$9,000

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 budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPOONFULS: $66,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBANCROFT SCHOOL: $58,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATION INC: $46,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOOSOX FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $19,150 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAdaptive Sports USA Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $6,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE KID MEALS INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILD TOMORROW FUND: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFestival of Children Foundation: $200 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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
  • Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds WOOSOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Adaptive Sports USA Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMMA'S TORCH LTD ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPE KID MEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD RESCUE US INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds RESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC ↗

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.

AbbVie FoundationIL11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good

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 Alan & Corinne Swoff Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alan & Corinne Swoff Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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Find your warmest path to Alan & Corinne Swoff Charitable 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 56 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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