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David and Linda Swain 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.

$152k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
52
Grants FY2025
54
Organizations funded FY2024
26%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
49 to 54
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
14
Total assets, FY2025
$3.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations David and Linda Swain Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving52$152k35%
FY202454$134k26%
FY202351$132k37%
FY202251$139k33%
FY202152$132k29%
FY202049$123kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$221kHealth$185kAnimals$83kReligion$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$47kArts & Culture$43kFood & Nutrition$33kEnvironment$32kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chapel by the Sea$51,0004n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$41,50060%
Sea Turtle Inc$30,00060%
Willows Way Inc$20,00050%
Folds of Honor Foundation$12,00060%
American Cancer Society Inc$11,00040%
El Paseo Arts Foundation$10,00025%
Community Living Inc$10,00050%
Blood Cancer United Inc$8,00040%
Laguna Madre Youth Center$6,50051%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 102 recipients with no EIN on record ($543k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David and Linda Swain Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $41,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSea Turtle Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWillows Way Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEl Paseo Arts Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCommunity Living Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLaguna Madre Youth Center: $6,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Military Academy Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOur Military Kids Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLaguna Madre Christian Academy: $6,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInnsbrook Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLifeline Aid Group: $2,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDkms: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInnsbrook Historical Society: $2,360 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY11.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to David and Linda Swain Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About David and Linda Swain Foundation

How much does David and Linda Swain Foundation give?
David and Linda Swain Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $151,860 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 54 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does David and Linda Swain Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (23%), Animals (10%).
Who are David and Linda Swain Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Chapel by the Sea ($51k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($42k), Sea Turtle Inc ($30k).
Does David and Linda Swain Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does David and Linda Swain 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 David and Linda Swain Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is David and Linda Swain Foundation based?
David and Linda Swain Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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