· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k51 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chapei by the Sea | $15,000 |
| American Red Cross | $7,500 |
| Willows Way | $7,500 |
| Truman State University | $5,000 |
| Port Isabel High School | $5,000 |
| Friends of Rescued Animals | $5,000 |
| Lifeline | $5,000 |
| El Paseo Arts Foundation | $5,000 |
| Sea Turtle Inc | $5,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $5,000 |
| University Missouri St Louis | $5,000 |
| University of Missouri of Sceince | $5,000 |
| St Louis Community College | $5,000 |
| Turning Point | $5,000 |
| University of Missouri Col | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 18 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +38%
- STSEA TURTLE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +138%
- WWWILLOWS WAY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +220%
Funded once
- CBChappel by then Seaone grant, 2024 · $12k
- CBchappel by the seaone grant, 2022 · $12k
- UOuniversity of missouri - columbiaone grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.
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For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
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How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 132 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds SEA TURTLE INC ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds El Paseo Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
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- Who funds LAGUNA MADRE YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
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- Who funds MARINE MILITARY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA MADRE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David and Linda Swain Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David and Linda Swain Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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