· Private foundation
Marion E Kenworthy Sarah H Swift Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Arthur Project | $40,000 |
| Hetrick-Martin Institute | $35,000 |
| POWER OF TWO | $35,000 |
| Mt Sinai Hospital Adolescent Health Clinic | $35,000 |
| The DOOR | $35,000 |
| ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| GRAHAM WINDHAM | $30,000 |
| BRAVE GENERATION | $30,000 |
| Red Hook Initiative | $30,000 |
| SAFE HORIZON | $30,000 |
| Getting Out Staying Out | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN OF PROMISE | $25,000 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates NYC | $25,000 |
| University Settlement House | $25,000 |
| Citizens Committee for Children | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Marion E Kenworthy Sarah H Swift Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TDTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +68%
- NCNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC6× · 2018–2024 · $173k · revenue +20%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE6× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +34%
Funded once
YOUTH REPRESENT INCone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -26%- BHBETANCES HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
- YJYouth Justice Network Incone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…
Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.
EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…
Our mission is to provide the highest-quality, state-of-the-art mental health and chemical dependency treatment in a warm, healing environment. our caring, compassionate team prepares our patients to return to their families and…
Hamilton-madison house is a non-profit settlement house that has been the place for care and connection for the diverse populations of the lower east side since 1898. based in the lower east side but offering programming citywide, we…
For over 150 years, st. vincent's services, inc. (d/b/a heartshare st. vincent's services) has been a symbol of hope, compassion, and strength for vulnerable and under-resourced communities in new york city. (see on schedule o)
Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.
Provide social, legal & behavioral health services to individuals and families affected by life-altering events.
The children's village (cv) is committed to the wellbeing of children, teens, and families by advocating for, strengthening, and reuniting families; building community partnerships; creating innovative programs; and connecting people to…
Little flower is committed to improving the well-being of the children, families, and individuals with developmental disabilities across nyc and long island so they can reach their full potential. little flower transforms caring into…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Access Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 100 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds GRAHAM WINDHAM ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds COMUNILIFE INC ↗
- Who funds EXALT YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDLING ↗
- Who funds BRONXWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVE GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTHUR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH REPRESENT INC ↗
- Who funds BETANCES HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Justice Network Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Van Ameringen Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Dammann Fund Inc · The Keith Haring Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Td Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Marion E Kenworthy Sarah H Swift Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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