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George and Ann Swift Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

George and Ann Swift Family Foundation Inc

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.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$300kHealth$229kEnvironment$181kRecreation & Sports$156kReligion$147kHousing & Shelter$108kArts & Culture$92kAnimals$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $229k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Animal Ark Rescue$40,000
Stewart Community Home$32,500
Columbus Botanical Gardens$30,000
Individual grant recipient$22,000
Society Pres Greek Housing$20,000
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta$15,000
St Paul United Methodist$15,000
Columbus Hospice$14,500
Columbus State University$10,000
Unity Baptist Church$10,000
Columbus State University$10,000
Open Door Community Center$10,000
Columbus Museum$7,500
Trees Columbus$7,500
The Food Mill$6,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 9% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%Unity Baptist Church: $10k → 22%Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: $15k → 14%Mercer University: $26k → 23%Unity Baptist Church: $10k → 22%Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: $15k → 14%Mercer University: $21k → 23%Unity Baptist Church: $10k → 22%Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: $15k → 14%Unity Baptist Church: $10k → 22%Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: $15k → 14%Unity Baptist Church: $10k → 22%Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: $15k → 14%Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: $15k → 14%Community Foundation: $10k → 18%Community Foundation: $10k → 18%Community Foundation: $10k → 18%Stewart Community Home: $33k → 18%St Paul United Methodist: $16k → 18%St Paul United Methodist: $15k → 18%Salvation Army: $15k → 18%Stewart Community Home: $13k → 18%St Paul United Methodist: $11k → 18%Trinity Episcopal Church: $11k → 18%ColumbusGlobal Teen: $10k → 18%ColumbusGlobal Teen: $10k → 18%St Paul United Methodist: $10k → 18%Open Door Community Center: $10k → 18%Trees Columbus: $10k → 18%St Paul United Methodist: $10k → 18%St Paul United Methodist: $10k → 18%Trees Columbus: $10k → 18%Animal Ark Rescue: $40k → 18%Columbus Hospice: $45k → 18%Columbus Botanical Gardens: $30k → 18%Columbus Botanical Gardens: $30k → 18%Columbus Hospice: $27k → 18%Columbus Botanical Gardens: $25k → 18%Columbus Botanical Gardens: $25k → 18%Columbus Hospice: $20k → 18%Columbus Botanical Gardens: $20k → 18%Columbus Botanical Gardens: $19k → 18%Columbus Hospice: $15k → 18%Columbus Hospice: $14k → 18%Columbus State University: $15k → 18%Columbus State University: $10k → 18%Columbus State University: $10k → 18%Columbus State University: $10k → 18%Animal Ark Rescue: $9k → 18%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 27 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
8

Total granted

$1.5M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-1%

Still filing today

59%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & 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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +160%
  • TC
    THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $149k · revenue +45%
  • CR
    COLUMBUS REGIONAL TENNIS ASSN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $146k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • VR
    Valley Resue Mission
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

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
Columbus Cares for Cats
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2
Pets Without Parents Columbus

To be a resource as a no-kill pet rescue service

Animals
3
Collie Rescue of the Carolinas

Endangered animal rescue and adoption

Animals
4
Fluvanna County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To rescue domestic animals from cruelty, neglect, and abandonment and place

Animals
5
Columbus Charities

Receive and provide contributions for charitable and educational activities

—
6
Columbus Housing Initiative Inc

Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing

Housing & Shelter
7
Berkeley County Humane Society

Animal welfare

Animals
8
Cincinnati Animal Care Humane Society

We meet the immediate needs of animals in our community through individualized care, life saving solutions, and temporary shelter en-route to a safe, compatible home. we envision a community where all animals are valued, protected and have…

Animals
9
Clermont County Humane Society

Humane treatment of animals

Animals
10
Atlas Animal Rescue Incorporated

Atlas animal rescue is an all breed rescue dedicated to finding great homes for homeless strays, owner surrendered or animal shelter survivors.

—
11
Ross County Humane Society Inc

The society runs an animal shelter that offers pet adoption, veterinary services, burials, etc.

Animals
12
Cass County Humane Society Inc

To provide permanent animal shelter for strays, provide for disposal of unwanted animals, adoption services and education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Columbus Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pats Pets Corporation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBUS HOSPICE INC: $128,500 · OtherCOLUMBUS HOSPICE INCIndividual grant recipient: $94,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta: $90,000 · OtherChildren's Healthcare of AtlantaColumbus State University: $80,000 · OtherColumbus State UniversitySt Paul United Methodist: $71,200 · OtherSt Paul United MethodistTHE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC: $64,500 · OtherTHE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INCUnity Baptist Church: $53,500 · OtherUnity Baptist ChurchCommunity Foundation: $50,000 · OtherCommunity FoundationSociety Pres Greek Housing: $40,000 · OtherNatl Infantry Museum: $30,000 · OtherTrees Columbus Inc: $32,500 · Other+16 more: $129,000 · Other+16 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $180,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF…THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $47,000 · EducationTHE CORPORATION O…BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC: $13,000 · EducationBROOKSTONE SCHOOL…THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $148,500 · EnvironmentTHE COLUMBU…THE FOOD MILL: $7,000 · EnvironmentCOLUMBUS REGIONAL TENNIS ASSN INC: $146,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLUMBUS R…ANIMAL ARK RESCUE: $63,500 · AnimalsPATS PETS CORPORATION: $18,000 · AnimalsPAWS Humane Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsRIGHT FROM THE START: $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC: $9,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$863,900Education$240,000Environment$155,500Recreation & Sports$146,000Animals$84,500Youth Development$43,000Arts & Culture$37,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $148,500 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS REGIONAL TENNIS ASSN INC: $146,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOSPICE INC: $128,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC: $64,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetANIMAL ARK RESCUE: $63,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $47,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIGHT FROM THE START: $33,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetTrees Columbus Inc: $32,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPATS PETS CORPORATION: $18,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC: $9,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS Humane Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding the Valley Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS REGIONAL TENNIS ASSN INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL ARK RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RIGHT FROM THE START ↗
  • Who funds Trees Columbus Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds PATS PETS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD MILL ↗
  • Who funds THE WYNN HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS Humane Inc ↗
  • Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Jordan Foundation…Lockwood Partners Fou…The Daniel P Amos Fam…John P and Dorothy S …Gb & Ca Saunders Foun…Jw & Ethel I Woodruff…Bradley-Turner Founda…Richard and Helen Rob…Mildred Miller Fort F…McClure Family Founda…Georgia Power Foundat…
Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA38.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Richard and Helen Robbins Family Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · McClure Family Foundation Inc Co Truist Foundations & Endowments Spec · Georgia Power Foundation Inc

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 George and Ann Swift Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George and Ann Swift Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 40 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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