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Re Swager Family 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.

$68k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
6%
First-time grantees FY2023
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100% of Re Swager Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Minneapolis Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Re Swager Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $68k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

13
’17
12
’19
15
’20
14
’21
16
’22
15
’23
15
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Re Swager Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$68k6%
FY202317$65k6%
FY202220$67k15%
FY202116$56k0%
FY202017$58k24%
FY201914$58k0%
FY201715$54kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$191kHealth$96kPhilanthropy$85kHousing & Shelter$50kHuman Services$44kEducation$35kAnimals$5kReligion$3k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IN
CA
MD
TN
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Re Swager Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTwin Cities Habitat for Humanity: $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMinneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts: $42,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPage Education Foundation: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHighpoint Center for Printmaking: $30,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $26,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Orchestral Association: $24,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMacphail Center for Music: $24,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $22,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $21,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Center for Book Arts: $21,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Craft Council: $20,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Clay Center: $18,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAllina Health Foundation: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBitty Kitty Brigade: $3,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTwin Cities Public Television Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAshleys Kitten Academy: $750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOrphan Kitten Club Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

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Find your warmest path to Re Swager 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.

About Re Swager Family Foundation

How much does Re Swager Family Foundation give?
Re Swager Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $68,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Re Swager Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Health (19%), Philanthropy (17%).
Who are Re Swager Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity ($50k), Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts ($42k), Page Education Foundation ($35k).
Does Re Swager Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Re Swager Family Foundation 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 Re Swager Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Re Swager Family Foundation based?
Re Swager Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 25 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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