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Gretchen Swanson Family Foundation at a glance

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Gretchen Swanson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$6.2MEnvironment$2.2MEducation$2.0MArts & Culture$958kHuman Services$940kInternational$700kFood & Nutrition$253kCivil Rights$240kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $720k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.7M
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORBETT MEDICAL FOUNDATION$2,817,972
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING$897,736
PLATTE VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$105,000
COCO POINT FUND$100,000
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$100,000
WYOMING STOCK GROWERS AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST$90,000
BUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTER$75,000
VALLEY VILLAGE$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$50,000
GREAT BEGINNINGS MONTESSORI SCHOOL$50,000
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$50,000
MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION$50,000
CAMP MISHAWAKA INC$25,000
WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE$25,000
SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL SOCIETY$25,000
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 (FY21–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VALLEY VILLAGE: $100k → 12%VALLEY VILLAGE: $50k → 12%VALLEY VILLAGE: $25k → 12%VALLEY VILLAGE: $25k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
WI
WY
IN
CT
CO
NE
VA
MD
NM
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 31 repeat orgs$253k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
15

Total granted

$15M
$183k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
-29%

Still filing today

52%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CM
    CORBETT MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +866% · 84% of their budget
  • WF
    WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +25%
  • PV
    PLATTE VALLEY HEALTHCARE PROJECT
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +156% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • NP
    NORTH PLATTE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION POST #54
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • TA
    The American Legion
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -29%
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
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
2
Wyoming Wilderness Association

The wyoming wilderness association works to protect wyoming's public wild lands to ensure a future of wild places for people and wildlife.

Animals
3
The Western Stock Show Association

The association is an educational organization whose primary purposes include (1) livestock production education (2) educational development of youth, and (3) educating the general public. see "schedule o" for a full description of the…

Recreation & Sports
4
Wyoming Natural Resource Foundation

Promote, maintain, and assist informational educational and research projects related to natural resource conservation

Environment
5
Western Sustainability Exchange

Advancing sustainability in the western area of the united states through a series of programs and activities designed to promote better ranching practices. a strong focus is to provide ranchers with the information, tools, technical…

Environment
6
Powder River Basin Resource Council

- the preservation and enrichment of wyoming's agricultural heritage and rural lifestyle. - the conservation of wyoming's unique land, mineral, water, and clean air resources consistent with responsible use of those resources to sustain…

Environment
7
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
8
Cowboy State Daily

Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.

Arts & Culture
9
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment
10
Wyoming Sheep Foundation
Food & Nutrition
11
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
12
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is Valley Village Childcare. 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

22 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. 22 of the 50 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORBETT MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $4,691,699 · HealthCORBETT MEDICAL FOUNDATIONPLATTE VALLEY HEALTHCARE PROJECT: $1,316,981 · HealthPLATTE VALLEY HEALTHCARE PROJECT+3 more: $115,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING: $2,140,236 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WYOMINGPLATTE VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $715,000 · OtherPLATTE VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTERCOCO POINT FUND INC: $700,000 · OtherCOCO POINT FUND INCBUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTER: $485,000 · OtherBUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTERUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $375,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAIndividual grant recipient: $300,000 · Other+33 more: $1,160,008 · Other+33 moreWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $1,596,284 · EducationWOODBERRY FORE…TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $375,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIA…WYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST: $560,000 · Food & NutritionMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $240,000 · Civil RightsVALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE: $200,000 · Human ServicesCAMP MISHAWAKA: $125,000 · Youth Development
Health$6,123,680Other$5,875,244Education$1,971,284Food & Nutrition$560,000Civil Rights$240,000Human Services$200,000Youth Development$125,000

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 budgetCORBETT MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $4,691,699 over 7y, 84% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $1,596,284 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetPLATTE VALLEY HEALTHCARE PROJECT: $1,316,981 over 3y, 35% of budgetCOCO POINT FUND INC: $700,000 over 7y, 69% of budgetWYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST: $560,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $375,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetVALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE: $200,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetCAMP MISHAWAKA: $125,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE: $80,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $75,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEagle Mount: $75,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGREAT BEGINNINGS MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF WYOMING: $35,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetThe American Legion: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARATOGA HISTORICAL & CULTURAL ASSOC: $25,000 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetGRAND ENCAMPMENT MUSEUM INC: $22,500 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetWYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $17,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWYOMING STOCK GROWERS ENDOWMENT TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPLATTE VALLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 CORBETT MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PLATTE VALLEY HEALTHCARE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds COCO POINT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MISHAWAKA ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
  • Who funds GREAT BEGINNINGS MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF WYOMING ↗
  • Who funds The American Legion ↗
  • Who funds SARATOGA HISTORICAL & CULTURAL ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND ENCAMPMENT MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING STOCK GROWERS ENDOWMENT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds PLATTE VALLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The Bruce and Beth Wh…Wyoming Community Fou…The Chicago Community…Joannides Family Foun…First Interstate Banc…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bruce and Beth White Family FoundationIN24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bruce and Beth White Family Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Joannides Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem 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 Gretchen Swanson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gretchen Swanson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Great Beginnings Montessori School: 0% of 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 · 0–60%
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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How do I get to Gretchen Swanson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gretchen Swanson Family Foundation 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 50 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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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