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David Swope Fund 4-18-08

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$393k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$133k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$2.2MHuman Services$1.9MEnvironment$1.7MHealth$1.4MArts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$225kFood & Nutrition$150kHousing & Shelter$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $330k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$490k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBORS LINK$132,500
OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES$75,000
TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION$72,500
COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER$50,000
OSSINING FOOD PANTRY$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANT$25,000
KAPADIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$12,500
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 (FY22–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $1.6M → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $133k → 9%OSSINING FOOD PANTRY: $75k → 9%OSSINING FOOD PANTRY: $50k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $38k → 9%OSSINING FOOD PANTRY: $25k → 9%OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES: $75k → 9%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.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.0M · 8 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$6.0M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-1%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NL
    NEIGHBORS LINK CORP
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +126% · 28% of their budget
  • PU
    PACE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +17%
  • TL
    TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • DS
    DAVID SWOPE FUND U ART VIII
    one grant, 2021 · $1.4M
  • PH
    PHELPS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • WL
    Westchester Land Trust Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -34%

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
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

2
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment
3
Lenox Hill Hospital Medical Pc

Lenox hill hospital medical, pc is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
Wilton Land Conservation Trust

Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.

Environment
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
The Legal Aid Society of Westchester County

Securing justice for, protecting the rights of and rendering legal assistance and representation to indigent residents and non-residents of westchester county.

8
Woodstock Land Conservancy Inc

Acquire land and easements to preserve and enhance the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historical sights of the Woodstock, NY area. Steward protected lands and offer educational programs and events regarding nature…

Environment
9
Northern Westchester Hospital Association

Northern westchester hospital association is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care;…

Health
10
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
11
The County Chamber of Commerce

The business council of westchester's mission is to work hard to grow the economy, create jobs and build a strong business community in westchester county.

12
Long Island Partnership Clt Housing Development Fund Company Inc

Long island partnership clt housing development fund company, inc. (lipclt) was established to provide housing within nassau and suffolk counties in new york for "persons of low income", as defined in any federal or state low income…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Council for Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kapadia Education Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DAVID SWOPE FUND U ART VIII — $1,355,000 · OtherDAVID SWOPE FUND U ART VIIIPHELPS HOSPITAL — $1,000,000 · OtherPHELPS HOSPITALOSSINING CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $375,000 · OtherOSSINING CHILDRENS HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANT — $225,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANTIFCA — $150,000 · Other+2 more — $20,000 · OtherPACE UNIVERSITY — $1,595,000 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITYTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL — $600,000 · EducationTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A…+1 more — $12,500 · EducationNEIGHBORS LINK CORP — $1,775,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS LINK CORPOssining Food Pantry — $150,000 · Human ServicesOssining Food PantryOPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesTEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC — $1,172,500 · Public BenefitTEATOWN LAKE R…Westchester Land Trust Inc — $500,000 · EnvironmentINTERFAITH COUNCIL FOR ACTION INC — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsPHELPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $12,500 · Health
Other$3,375,000Education$2,207,500Human Services$2,000,000Public Benefit$1,172,500Environment$500,000Housing & Shelter$100,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Health$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP — $1,775,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY — $1,595,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC — $1,172,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL — $600,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetOssining Food Pantry — $150,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetINTERFAITH COUNCIL FOR ACTION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC — $75,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetKapadia Education Foundation Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetPHELPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

David Swope Fund U Art VIII of Rev Tr Dtd July 25 2017NY15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: David Swope Fund U Art VIII of Rev Tr Dtd July 25 2017 · The New York Community Trust · Hudson Road Foundation Inc · Chapman Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 David Swope Fund 4-18-08 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 · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

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    How do I get to David Swope Fund 4-18-08?

    Find your warmest path to David Swope Fund 4-18-08 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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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