· Private foundation
Sw Calkins 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER | $21,875 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SPOTLIGHT PA | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 38% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BCBUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +51%
- UWUNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY3× · 2020–2023 · $37k · revenue +58%
- WPWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- PNPENNSYLVANIA NEWSMEDIA ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- PIPOYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIAone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TLTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPFgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +81%
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 daily pennsylvanian exists to inform the penn community of relevant news and opinion while providing a training vehicle for students.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
Our mission is to advance the business interests of pennsylvania news media organizations and to promote a free and independent press.
Wqed multimedia (wqed) champions communities across southwest pennsylvania by telling stories and creating experiences that educate, entertain and inspire our neighbors.
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…
Wvia public media is a catalyst, convener and educator, using media, partnerships, powerful ideas and programs to improve lives and advance the best attributes of an enlightened society.
To promote the pork industry through consumer and farmer education, research, and promotion, and to meet the requirements of the national pork board (npb).
Providing pennsylvania citizens with in-depth information. we write stories to explain complex issues and to hold the powerful accountable. we provide citizens with in-depth reporting and data on the environment, health, criminal justice,…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
The pennsylvania beef council (pbc) is a non-profit organization working on behalf of 25,000 beef, dairy, and veal producers in pennsylvania. the council seeks to promote the beef industry in pennsylvania and educate consumers through a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA NEWSMEDIA ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF ↗
- Who funds SPOTLIGHT PA ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Sw Calkins 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.
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.