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Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation

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.

$111k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$966k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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
FY2024still arriving22$106k50%
FY20236$52k17%
FY20221$5k0%
FY202124$117k13%
FY202025$130k44%
FY201913$69k8%
FY201816$84k13%
FY201716$86kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$313kHealth$146kFood & Nutrition$62kHuman Services$47kEnvironment$41kHousing & Shelter$18kPublic Benefit$5kReligion$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
NC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDirect Relief: $73,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $44,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCamfed USA Foundation: $34,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPorch Chapel Hill-Carrboro: $26,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPlanned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPorch Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInter-Faith Council for Social Service Inc: $14,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Women's Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEmpowerment Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEarthjustice: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRescue Missions Ministries Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Empowerment Fund: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTable Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInter-Faith Food Shuttle: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Forward Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFood Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIpas: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFarmer Foodshare Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEl Centro Hispano Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetExtraordinary Ventures: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResilience Advocates for Ending Violence: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPsychotherapy Action Network: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHispanic Federation Inc: $1,000 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 34.

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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.

Strowd Roses IncNC28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Strowd Roses Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Shared Visions Foundation Inc · Carlson Family Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Ochiltree Foundation of North Carolina · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Yusko Family Foundation · The Mary Norris Preyer Fund

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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About Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation

How much does Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation give?
Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $111,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (48%), Health (22%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Direct Relief ($73k), International Rescue Committee INC ($70k), The Fistula Foundation ($70k).
Does Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable 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 Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Strowd Roses Inc, Triangle Community Foundation Inc, United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc.
Where is Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation based?
Dennis Swartzlander & Terry Blanken Charitable Foundation is based in NC.

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 46 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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