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ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH 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.

$27k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,250
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 27
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$722k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH FOUNDATION funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving13$27k8%
FY202415$35k7%
FY202315$43k7%
FY202220$46k30%
FY202121$22k62%
FY202027$30kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$55kYouth Development$29kCrime & Legal$21kEducation$21kArts & Culture$20kInternational$14kRecreation & Sports$12kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
IN
CA
CO
NE
MD
AZ
NC
DC
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Project Harmony$19,00060%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$17,00040%
Completely Kids$15,15040%
Samaritan's Purse$14,00050%
Release Inc$12,00060%
Arizona Musicfest Inc$9,30050%
St James Church of Omaha$4,6005n/a
Omaha Youth for Christ$2,00020%
Voices for Children Inc$2,00011%
Joslyn Art Museum$1,50020%
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH FOUNDATION by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Project Harmony$19,00060%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$17,00040%
Completely Kids$15,15040%
Samaritan's Purse$14,00050%
Release Inc$12,00060%
Arizona Musicfest Inc$9,30050%
St James Church of Omaha$4,6005n/a
Omaha Youth for Christ$2,00020%
Voices for Children Inc$2,00011%
Joslyn Art Museum$1,50020%
Kicks for a Cure Inc$1,00010%
Youth Emergency Services Inc$1,00010%
Partnership 4 Kids Inc$1,00010%
Dream Center Foundation$1,00010%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$7501n/a
Strands of Strength Inc$60020%
Autism Action Partnership$35010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$30010%
Folds of Honor Foundation$25010%
Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House$13320%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$10010%
Nebraska Humane Society$10010%
Creighton University$2510%
Breakthrough T1d$2510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH FOUNDATION supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetProject Harmony: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCompletely Kids: $15,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRelease Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Musicfest Inc: $9,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOmaha Youth for Christ: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVoices for Children Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJoslyn Art Museum: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKicks for a Cure Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Emergency Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership 4 Kids Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDream Center Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStrands of Strength Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAutism Action Partnership: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House: $133 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNebraska Humane Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $25 over 1y, 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 22.

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.

Dixon Family FoundationNE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dixon Family Foundation · Seline Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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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About ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH FOUNDATION

How much does ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH FOUNDATION give?
ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH FOUNDATION reported 13 grants totaling $27,080 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH FOUNDATION fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Youth Development (14%), Crime & Legal (10%).
Who are ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH FOUNDATION's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Project Harmony ($19k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($17k), Completely Kids ($15k).
Does ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH FOUNDATION fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH 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 ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH FOUNDATION?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dixon Family Foundation, Seline Family Foundation, The Hawks Foundation.
Where is ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH FOUNDATION based?
ROBERT F and SHARON L SWARTZBAUGH FOUNDATION is based in NE.

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 49 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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