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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLASSICS FOR KIDS INC | $5,000 |
| JULIAN UNION HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WORDS ALIVE | $5,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT #2 INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE EAGLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $5,000 |
| TAHOE INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE | $5,000 |
| AGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INCLINE EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| TAHOE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| GIRAFFE LAUGH EARLY LEARNING CENTERS | $5,000 |
| DOUBLE PEAK SCHOOL | $4,600 |
| NORTH COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $3,620 |
| MERIDIAN LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC | $3,359 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Bessie Minor Swift Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TITAHOE INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE3× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +64%
- GIGET IN THE ACT ARTS IN ACTION INC4× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +116%
- RFROARING FORK CONSERVANCY4× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- NCNorth County Community Servicesone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +20%
- IEINCLINE EDUCATIONAL FUNDone grant, 2024 · $5k
- GCGLOCAL COMMUNITY PARTNERSgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +101%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to provide individualized educational options where students and teachers engage in playful, exploratory learning by creating a culture of collaboration in a safe, diverse, multi-age environment. Our students are encouraged…
Provide education for students in Pre-K through 8th grade, benefitting approximately 415 students.
To provide innovative career exploration and work-based learning opportunities that prepare youth to enter tomorrow's workforce and build fulfilling lives.
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
Canyons School District Education Foundation works in tandem with community and business partners to build support for public schools and to advance Canyons School Districts mission to help every student become college- and career-ready…
To provide a revolutionary learning experience for children grades K through 8.
Through individualized learning and responsive mentoring, we inspire, guide and empower students and families.
Our mission is to fund and support educator-powered initiatives that inspire all Park City students to reach their academic and lifelong potential.
Cultivating a diverse community of leaders and environmental stewards by increasing outdoor equity.
To provide rich content and solid skills instruction in an environment that champions character and personal academic achievement. carbon valley provides a public eduction to students preschool through grade 8.
Offer unique outdoor education experiences to youth and adults. Since 1982 the organization has inspired a greater apprecation for the natural world; offers unique educational opportuntities to those who would not otheriwise experience…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Aerolab Inc and the most unlike its peers is Glocal Community Partners. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 162 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds LITERACY OUTREACH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bessie Minor Swift Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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