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Susannah M Swihart Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Susannah M Swihart Charitable Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$105k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

99% of Susannah M Swihart Charitable Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Susannah M Swihart Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $105k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’20
6
’21
0
’22

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

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Philanthropy$1.9MEducation$80kHealth$20kFood & Nutrition$20kHousing & Shelter$20kYouth Development$20kSocial Science$20kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2021 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Southern Maine Foundation$20,000
University of Maine Foundation$20,000
Preble Street$15,000
The Tides Institute$10,000
Boys and Girls Club of Southern Maine$10,000
United Way of Greater Portland Inc$10,000
Good Shepherd Food Bank$10,000
Maine Medical Center$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Preble Street: $15k → 7%Preble Street: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160k · 7 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$160k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+88%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    University of Southern Maine Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +110%
  • M
    MaineHealth
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +87%
  • PS
    PREBLE STREET
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • PO
    PORTLAND OVATIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +88%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.

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2
Southern Maine Health Care

Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.

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3
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

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4
MaineHealth Services

MaineHealth Services will lead the development of the premier community care network that provides a broad range of integrated health care services in Maine and Northern New England. Through MaineHealth Services' affiliated organizations,…

Health
5
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
6
University of New England

The University of New England prepares students to thrive in a rapidly-changing world and, in so doing, to improve the health of people, communities, and our planet.

Education
7
Western Maine Health Care Corp

Ensured a high quality, accessible, affordable and appropriate integrated health care system to improve the health and well being of the community.

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8
LincolnHealth Group

LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.

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9
Maine Cancer Foundation

Maine Cancer Foundation is dedicated to reducing cancer incidence and mortality rates in Maine. 100% of funds raised by the Foundation are used to benefit the people of Maine.

Health
10
MaineGeneral Health and Affiliates

MaineGeneral Health is a comprehensive non-profit system with the mission of enhancing, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities.

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11
Catholic Charities Maine

Catholic Charities Maine is one of the largest statewide, private, nonprofit, social service agencies in Maine and is committed to improving the quality of life for the individual, the family and the community. Catholic Charities Mission…

Human Services
12
Lincolnhealth

LincolnHealth is dedicated to maintaining and improving the health of our communities by assuring: the very best, highest quality, and compassionate health care services from highly trained professionals; our services are cost-effective…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Preble Street. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $1,837,416 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC+2 more: $60,000 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Maine Foundation: $40,000 · EducationThe Tides Institute: $20,000 · OtherUnited Way of Southern Maine: $10,000 · OtherMaineHealth: $20,000 · HealthPREBLE STREET: $20,000 · Human ServicesBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGood Shepherd Food Bank: $20,000 · Food & NutritionPORTLAND OVATIONS: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$1,897,416Education$40,000Other$30,000Health$20,000Human Services$20,000Youth Development$20,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $1,837,416 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaineHealth: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND OVATIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

Kestrel Foundation of…Sam L Cohen FoundationMaine Community Found…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kestrel Foundation of MaineME13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kestrel Foundation of Maine · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Susannah M Swihart Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susannah M Swihart Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 11 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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