Delaware · Private foundation
Alice Rowan Swanson 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.
- $113k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $113k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $118k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $117k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $114k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $97k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $90k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $93k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $90k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Fund for Unicef | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Near East Refugee Aid | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Middle East Children's Alliance | $55,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Joy of Music Program Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Seeds of Peace Inc | $39,000 | 8 | 0% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Lilies Foundation Inc | $29,000 | 7 | 9% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($82k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation
- How much does Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation give?
- Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $112,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (55%), Health (12%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: United States Fund for Unicef ($85k), American Near East Refugee Aid ($80k), Middle East Children's Alliance ($55k).
- Does Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation based?
- Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation is based in DE.
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