Virginia · Private foundation
Bessie Minor Swift 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.
- $84k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 39
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Bessie Minor Swift Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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 | 19 | $79k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $83k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $86k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $82k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $86k | 51% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $83k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $84k | 70% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $74k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Colby Public Library | $18,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Tahoe Institute for Natural Science | $12,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Get in the Act Arts in Action Inc | $12,495 | 4 | 5% |
| Roaring Fork Conservancy | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of the Grand County Library Inc | $11,450 | 4 | 5% |
| Horizons Specialized Services | $11,427 | 5 | 0% |
| Sierra Nevada Journeys | $11,028 | 4 | 0% |
| Tahoe Childrens Foundation | $10,966 | 4 | 1% |
| Integrated Community | $10,600 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($215k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bessie Minor Swift 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation · Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation · The Summit Foundation · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Colorado Humanities
How this is measured
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About Bessie Minor Swift Foundation
- How much does Bessie Minor Swift Foundation give?
- Bessie Minor Swift Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $83,866 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Bessie Minor Swift Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Arts & Culture (11%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Bessie Minor Swift Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the Colby Public Library ($18k), Tahoe Institute for Natural Science ($13k), Get in the Act Arts in Action Inc ($12k).
- Does Bessie Minor Swift Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bessie Minor Swift 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 Bessie Minor Swift Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Aspen Community Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
- Where is Bessie Minor Swift Foundation based?
- Bessie Minor Swift Foundation is based in VA.
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