· Private foundation
Mildred E Swanson 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| MCLAREN FLINT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ITHACA COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan4× · 2018–2021 · $188k · revenue +195%
University of Chicago5× · 2018–2022 · $125k · revenue +52%- MMMID MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $29k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +16%
- CHCHILDRENS HEALING CENTERS OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MID MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN FLINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mildred E Swanson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mildred E Swanson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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