· Private foundation
Darlene M and Reuben T 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $175k
Anchored by a single position — about 100% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway A&B.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL REFUGE | $20,000 |
| MOSIAC | $20,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF LARIMER COUNTY | $15,000 |
| LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES ROCKY MOUN | $15,000 |
| LUTHERAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AT CHIC | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| MOSIAC OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASK | $10,000 |
| NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| PHELPS COUNTY COMM FNDTN | $6,000 |
| KRFC 889FM | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- MMOSAIC5× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +52%
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +4%
- TFThe Food Bank for Larimer County6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- TLTHE LUTHERAN CENTERone grant, 2021 · $10k
- OSOUR SAVIORS LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $6k
- MIMOSAIC IN NORTHERN COLORADIone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
Lutheran social service of minnesota expresses the love of christ for all people through service that inspires hope, changes lives and builds community. lutheran social service of minnesota and affiliates is one of minnesota's largest and…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Wartburg college is dedicated to challenging and nurturing students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran World Relief Inc and the most unlike its peers is Public Radio for the Front Range. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 32 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.
- Who funds MOSAIC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN MUSIC PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PHELPS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds Public Radio for the Front Range ↗
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.
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 organization Darlene M and Reuben T Swanson 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.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
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.