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David Swope Fund 4-18-08 at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANT$25,000
OSSINING FOOD PANTRY$25,000
KAPADIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$12,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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%
+4%

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
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NL
    NEIGHBORS LINK CORP
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +140% · 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%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Council for Action Inc; 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 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. 11 of the 19 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPHELPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKapadia Education Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 12% of budget
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.

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.

David Swope Fund U Ar…The New York Communit…Hudson Road Foundatio…Chapman Family Founda…The Bessemer Giving F…Jewish Communal FundNetwork for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David Swope Fund 4-18-08 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David Swope Fund 4-18-08. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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