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· Private foundation
DARLENE M AND REUBEN T SWANSON
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$231k
Granted FY2025
24
Grants
8
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of DARLENE M AND REUBEN T SWANSON’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
mosaicaugustana
2021
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2022
augustana
2023
augustana
2024
augustana
2025
radiomosiacaugustana
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 24 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Anchored by a single position — about 100% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway A&B.
Largest grants
- MOSIAC$20,000
- GLOBAL REFUGE$20,000
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$15,000
- LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF$15,000
- LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES ROCKY MOUN$15,000
- SEAFARER'S INTERNATIONAL$15,000
- FOOD BANK OF LARIMER COUNTY$15,000
- LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASK$10,000
- LUTHERAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AT CHIC$10,000
- MOSIAC OF NORTHERN COLORADO$10,000
- WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
- NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRY$10,000
- ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
- PHELPS COUNTY COMM FNDTN$6,000
- AUGUSTANA COLLEGE$5,000
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 76% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$952k · 21 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else
21 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
21
6
Total granted
$952k
$37k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+53%
+235%
Still filing today
33%
17%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationInternationalHousing & ShelterAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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
- MMOSAIC4× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +53%
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +43%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN4× · 2022–2025 · $36k · revenue +1417%
Funded once
- TLTHE LUTHERAN CENTERone grant, 2021 · $10k
- OSOUR SAVIOR'S LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $6k
- PCPHELPS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +235%
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.
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Luther College
On a campus of more than 800 acres along the banks of the upper iowa river in decorah, iowa, luther is a true residential campus, with 97 percent of students living on campus and nearly 95 percent of faculty choosing to live within five…
Education
2
Luther Classical College
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
Education
3
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota
Express the love of christ for all people through service that changes lives and builds community.
Human Services
4
Mid-America Christian University Inc
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
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5
Central Indiana Corporate
The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…
Community Improvement
6
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Embolden creative leaders to transform society through equity, empathy, & imagination.
Education
7
Arizona Christian University
Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence. arizona christian university exists to…
Education
8
Lubbock Christian University
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
Education
9
Mid-Atlantic Christian University
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. the university grants both two and…
Education
10
Concordia University
Liberal arts christian university for all who seek to develop their full potential.
Education
11
Corus International Inc
This return should be reviewed together with corus international's related organizations lutheran world relief, inc., interchurch medical assistance inc., and corus solutions, inc. corus international's mission is to operate exclusively as…
Human Services
12
Warner Pacific University
Offer a four-year christian liberal arts education in an urban setting.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran World Relief Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mosaic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$772,000International$111,000Housing & Shelter$85,000Education$50,000Animals$15,000Philanthropy$6,000
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.
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation DARLENE M AND REUBEN T SWANSON 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
’20’21’22’23’24
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PHELPS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 510189077 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on PHELPS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Darlene M and Reuben T Swanson?
Find your warmest path to Darlene M and Reuben T Swanson through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
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