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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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 |
|---|---|
| TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $8,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $6,500 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $5,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $4,500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $4,000 |
| MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA | $4,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC | $4,000 |
| ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| HIGHPOINT CENTER FOR PRINTMAKING | $3,500 |
| MINNESOTA CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS | $3,000 |
| THE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TCTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY7× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +80%
- MSMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS7× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +65%
- PEPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $4k
- LOLutheran Outdoor Ministries Indiana- Kentucky Incone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
The mission of minnesota public radio is creating the future of public media by amplifying voices to inform, include, and inspire.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
The minneapolis club is a private city club that brings together an engaged community of talented and diverse people, connecting them socially and professionally through extraordinary experiences.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ashleys Kitten Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Highpoint Center for Printmaking ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CLAY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BITTY KITTY BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Indiana- Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds Ashleys Kitten Academy ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN KITTEN CLUB 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: 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
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 Re Swager Family 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 Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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