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Mr and Mrs Kirk Swingle 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.

$121k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$226kPublic Safety & Disaster$198kEducation$177kArts & Culture$30kEnvironment$23kHuman Services$20kEmployment$15kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS CALIFORNIA GOLD COUNT$38,500
MIRACLE UNIVERSITY INC$30,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$30,000
A TOUCH OF UNDERSTANDING$12,500
HACKDAVIS$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A TOUCH OF UNDERSTANDING: $13k → 6%HOMEMORE PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $35k → 10%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY INC: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 10%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY INC: $10k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $14k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$468k · 7 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$468k
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+14%

Still filing today

43%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2021–2022 · $49k · revenue +27%
  • MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +1%
  • YC
    Yolo Crisis Nursery
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • MA
    MR AND MRS KIRK SWINGLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +31%
  • LF
    LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIREDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +138%
  • DS
    Downtown Streets Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Harm Reduction Services Inc

To increase access to health care, empower people to protect themselves, and educate each other to reduce harm in our communities.

Civil Rights
3
Equalize Health Formerly D-Rev

Equalize Health believes in a world where we all have access to world-class medical treatment, no matter where we live. Millions of people suffer and die from preventable or treatable conditions simply because they dont have access to the…

Science & Tech
4
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
5
Power to Decide

Power to decide envisions a world where everyone - no matter who they are or where they live - has control over their bodies and can decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant and have a child. its mission is to advance…

Human Services
6
Disabilityin

The organization is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. together with the world's leading brands, disability:in drives progress on disability inclusion through initiatives, tools, and expertise that…

Community Improvement
7
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
8
Downtown Women's Center

Housing, employment, and physical and mental health services for women overcoming homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
9
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
10
Days for Girls International

Days for Girls increases access to menstrual care and education by developing global partnerships, cultivating social enterprises, mobilizing volunteers, and innovating sustainable solutions that shatter stigmas and limitations for women…

International
11
K to College Dba Supplybankorg

SupplyBank.Org works through trusted local partnerships to strengthen the social safety net and deliver essential supplies to children and families in need.

Human Services
12
Africa Agility

Our mission is to equip underserved youthespecially women and girls with future-ready skills in technology Agile methodologies and entrepreneurship empowering them to access dignified work drive innovation and compete globally.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Givethx Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mr and Mrs Kirk Swingle Foundation. 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

19 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. 19 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS CALIFORNIA GOLD COUNT — $149,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS CALIFORNIA GOLD COUNTLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IM — $90,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF — $90,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OFMR AND MRS KIRK SWINGLE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherMR AND MRS KIRK SWINGLE FOUNDATIONBRAVEHOODS — $30,000 · OtherBRAVEHOODSREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $30,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA+2 more — $23,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $48,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Re…LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $30,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE B…Yolo Crisis Nursery — $20,000 · Human ServicesYolo Crisis NurseryA TOUCH OF UNDERSTANDING — $12,500 · Human ServicesA TOUCH OF UNDERSTAN…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FO…HOMEMORE PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE UNIVERISTY INC — $30,000 · EducationHackdavis — $10,000 · EducationGIVETHX INC — $10,000 · EducationMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $40,000 · HealthBREATHE CALIFORNIA SACRAMENTO REGION — $7,500 · HealthDowntown Streets Inc — $15,000 · EmploymentExploring New Horizons — $15,000 · EnvironmentRIVER CITY ROWING CLUB INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY MATTERS — $6,500 · Community Improvement
Other$442,000Human Services$126,000Education$50,000Health$47,500Employment$15,000Environment$15,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Community Improvement$6,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $48,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMR AND MRS KIRK SWINGLE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBRAVEHOODS — $30,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE UNIVERISTY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetYolo Crisis Nursery — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetExploring New Horizons — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPregnancy Support Group of Woodland Inc Crisis Pregnancy Hotline — $13,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetA TOUCH OF UNDERSTANDING — $12,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHackdavis — $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetRIVER CITY ROWING CLUB INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGIVETHX INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDIVINE DROPS — $10,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetBREATHE CALIFORNIA SACRAMENTO REGION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY MATTERS — $6,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOMEMORE PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

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.

Teichert FoundationSacramento Region Com…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Teichert FoundationCA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Teichert Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Mr and Mrs Kirk Swingle 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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