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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.

$84k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$351kArts & Culture$73kEnvironment$62kHuman Services$58kYouth Development$46kHealth$20kFood & Nutrition$17kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 8%GIRAFFE LAUGH INC: $5k → 8%TAHOE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 10%GIRAFFE LAUGH EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $5k → 8%HORIZONS SPECIALIZED SERVICES INC: $3k → 6%TAHOE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 10%HORIZONS SPECIALIZED SERVICES INC: $3k → 6%TAHOE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 10%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $5k → 8%HORIZONS SPECIALIZED SERVICES INC: $2k → 6%HORIZONS SPECIALIZED SERVICES INC: $2k → 6%NORTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICESGROWING MINDS: $5k → 11%HORIZONS SPECIALIZED SERVICES INC: $2k → 6%ADVOCATES TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $500 → 13%TAHOE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%THE FRIENDSHIP CLUB: $1k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CLUB: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

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.

Bessie Minor Swift Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.9% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$404k · 58 repeat orgs$253k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
93

Total granted

$404k
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+49%

Still filing today

53%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TI
    TAHOE INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE
    3× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +64%
  • GI
    GET IN THE ACT ARTS IN ACTION INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +116%
  • RF
    ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • NC
    North County Community Services
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +20%
  • IE
    INCLINE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • GC
    GLOCAL COMMUNITY PARTNERSgraduated
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
High Rockies Community School

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…

Education
2
Pikes Peak School of Expeditionary Learning

Provide education for students in Pre-K through 8th grade, benefitting approximately 415 students.

Education
3
Community School Collaborative

To provide innovative career exploration and work-based learning opportunities that prepare youth to enter tomorrow's workforce and build fulfilling lives.

Education
4
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

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,…

Education
5
Canyons School District Education Foundation

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…

Education
6
Stone Creek Elementary School

To provide a revolutionary learning experience for children grades K through 8.

Education
7
Colorado Learning Connections

Through individualized learning and responsive mentoring, we inspire, guide and empower students and families.

Education
8
Park City Education Foundation

Our mission is to fund and support educator-powered initiatives that inspire all Park City students to reach their academic and lifelong potential.

Education
9
Environmental Learning for Kids

Cultivating a diverse community of leaders and environmental stewards by increasing outdoor equity.

Youth Development
10
Incline Schools Academic Excellence Foundation
11
Carbon Valley Academy

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.

Education
12
Cal-Wood Education Center

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…

Environment

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsSchool Parent OrganizationsPublic Library OperationsLocal History MuseumsSchool District FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Elementary Literacy TutoringHealth Access Advocacy and …Domestic Violence ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Development Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/103
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,462

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.

05the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/85
Grantees still filing
56/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHICAGO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $12,000 · Other+96 more — $333,241 · Other+96 moreFRIENDS OF THE COLBY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $18,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE COLBY P…FRIENDS OF THE GRAND COUNTY LIBRARY INC — $11,450 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE GRAND C…COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM — $9,000 · EducationCOLORADO FOUNDATION FO…Summit Education Foundation — $8,440 · EducationSummit Education Found…GRASS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $7,150 · EducationGRASS VALLEY CHARTER S…ROARING FORK VALLEY EARLY LEARNING FUND — $7,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION — $5,300 · EducationLITERACY OUTREACH — $5,140 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $5,000 · EducationINCLINE EDUCATION FUND — $5,000 · EducationNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEARNING ALLIANCE — $4,879 · Education+17 more — $46,193 · Education+17 moreHORIZONS SPECIALIZED SERVICES — $11,427 · Human ServicesHORIZONS …TAHOE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION — $10,966 · Human ServicesTAHOE CHI…INTEGRATED COMMUNITY — $10,600 · Human ServicesINTEGRATE…GIRAFFE LAUGH INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesGIRAFFE L…Women's and Children's Alliance — $5,000 · Human ServicesWomen's a…North County Community Services — $5,000 · Human ServicesNorth Cou…WOMEN OF WORTH — $2,680 · Human ServicesBRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH — $2,125 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesGET IN THE ACT ARTS IN ACTION INC — $12,495 · Arts & CultureGET IN TH…ASPEN ART MUSEUM — $6,000 · Arts & CultureASPEN ART…MOUNTAIN TOP CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC — $5,750 · Arts & CultureMOUNTAIN …Tahoe School of Music — $5,500 · Arts & CultureTahoe Sch…Words Alive — $5,000 · Arts & CultureWords Ali…CLASSICS FOR KIDS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCLASSICS …SIERRA GOLD PARKS FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Arts & CultureSIERRA GO…TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTREAD OF …CALIFORNIA HERITAGE INDIGENOUS RESEARCH PROJECT — $3,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNI…ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER — $2,900 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $4,047 · Arts & Culture+4 moreTAHOE INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE — $12,500 · EnvironmentROARING FORK CONSERVANCY — $12,000 · EnvironmentASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES — $6,000 · EnvironmentGRAND CO WATER INFORMATION NETWORK — $3,000 · EnvironmentPOUDRE LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION I — $2,550 · EnvironmentYAMPATIKA — $2,500 · Environment+2 more — $1,665 · EnvironmentSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS — $11,028 · Youth DevelopmentADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE — $4,600 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHWEST COLO — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentArts-Kids Inc — $2,695 · Youth DevelopmentASPEN YOUTH CENTER — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentSierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation — $7,000 · Health
Other$345,241Education$132,552Human Services$58,298Arts & Culture$55,692Environment$40,215Youth Development$22,323Health$7,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE COLBY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $18,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTAHOE INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE — $12,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGET IN THE ACT ARTS IN ACTION INC — $12,495 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetROARING FORK CONSERVANCY — $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe — $11,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GRAND COUNTY LIBRARY INC — $11,450 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetHORIZONS SPECIALIZED SERVICES — $11,427 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS — $11,028 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTAHOE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION — $10,966 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetINTEGRATED COMMUNITY — $10,600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGIRAFFE LAUGH INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC COLORADO AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM — $9,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSummit Education Foundation — $8,440 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetGRASS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $7,150 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetROARING FORK VALLEY EARLY LEARNING FUND — $7,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY VISITOR PROGRAM OF GARFIELD COUNTY INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN TOP CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC — $5,750 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEL CAMINO CREEK PTA — $5,719 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHEADWATERS SCIENCE INSTITUTE — $5,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTahoe School of Music — $5,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION — $5,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,150 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEducation Foundation For Joint School District #2 Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWomen's and Children's Alliance — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorth County Community Services — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOCAL COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINCLINE EDUCATION FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWords Alive — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCLASSICS FOR KIDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEARNING ALLIANCE — $4,879 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC — $4,820 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE — $4,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEARNING LAB INC — $4,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN VILLAGE MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL — $4,087 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARK CITY READS — $4,050 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetNorth County Education Foundation Inc — $3,620 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMERIDIAN LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC — $3,359 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTIMBERLINE ADULT DAY SERVICES — $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYuba River Charter School — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHWEST COLO — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA GOLD PARKS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGRAND COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCollege Outreach — $3,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO37.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bessie Minor Swift Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bessie Minor Swift 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 162 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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