How much does Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr give?

Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr reported 26 grants totaling $68,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Environment (16%), Education (14%).

Who are Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houston Area Women's Center ($32k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($28k), Earthjustice ($25k).

Does Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr 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 Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr based?

Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr is based in MA.

Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr

Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr at a glance

· Private foundation

Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr

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.

$68k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$85kEnvironment$78kEducation$66kReligion$64kFood & Nutrition$62kHuman Services$45kCivil Rights$29kPhilanthropy$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$424k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RICE UNIVERSITY	$5,000
MORE TO LIFE	$5,000
HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER	$4,000
ALCU FOUNDATION	$4,000
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA	$3,500
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER	$3,500
COVID 19 LONGHAULER ADVOCACY PROJECT	$3,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$3,000
HUMANE BORDERS	$3,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN AZ	$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION	$3,000
EARTHJUSTICE	$3,000
NORTHWEST HARVEST	$3,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY	$2,500
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$463k · 29 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$463k

$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+8%

Still filing today

69%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

HA
Houston Area Women's Center
9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +110%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +12%
EARTHJUSTICE
9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +82%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $1k
OXFAM-AMERICA INC
one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +8%

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.

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals

Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Theatre Under the Stars 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

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 33 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

20/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$269,500Human Services$53,000Health$51,000Environment$47,500Food & Nutrition$23,500Education$20,500Animals$16,000

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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gertrude & Edward Swartz Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home