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Swain Barber Foundation dated March 28 2011 at a glance

· Private foundation

Swain Barber Foundation dated March 28 2011

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2019
10
Grants FY2019
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Environment$1.3MEducation$867kAnimals$515kHealth$490kCivil Rights$475kYouth Development$280kEmployment$200kPhilanthropy$150kOther$0
02FY2019 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k1 grant · $99
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $32k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $750k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Heal the Bay$500,000
World Wildlife Foundation$200,000
Green Science Policy Institute$100,000
Downtown Women's Center$100,000
Youth Emerging Stronger$100,000
Center for Reproductive Rights$100,000
LA Conservation Corps$100,000
Building Bridges for Peace$50,000
University of Iowa Foundation$31,600
K-1 Allocation$99
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 (FY17–19, $180k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Downtown Women's Center: $100k → 14%Los Angeles Youth Network: $40k → 14%Los Angeles Youth Network: $40k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
IA
CA
CO
DC
HI
TX
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 21 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against -26% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2019, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
12

Total granted

$3.5M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
-26%

Still filing today

67%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalAnimalsOther
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

  • HT
    HEAL THE BAY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $650k · revenue +34%
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue +69%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $175k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • SS
    Sequoia School
    one grant, 2018 · $515k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -26%
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
Physicians for Social Responsibility

Psr-la is a physician and health advocate membership organization working to protect public health from nuclear threats and environmental toxins.

International
2
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
3
The 5 Gyres Institute

The 5 Gyres Institute (5 Gyres) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, with a global network of supporters united in the pursuit of a planet free of plastic pollution. 5 Gyres' mission is to empower action against the…

—
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
7
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
8
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
California Latinas for Reproductive Justice

California latinas for reproductive justice (clrj) is a statewide organization committed to honoring the experiences of latinas to uphold our dignity, our bodies, sexuality, and families. we build latinas' power and cultivate leadership…

Health
11
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast

To improve our communities' sexual and reproductive health outcomes through health care, education, and advocacy.

Health
12
Council for Watershed Health

Council for watershed health advances the health and sustainability of the region's watersheds, rivers, streams, and habitats - in both natural areas and urban neighborhoods - through science-based research, education, and inclusive…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is The Serengeti Foundation. 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

22 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. 22 of the 37 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sequoia School: $515,000 · OtherSequoia SchoolIndividual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWorld Wildlife Foundation: $400,000 · OtherWorld Wildlife FoundationUniversity of Iowa Foundation: $331,816 · OtherUniversity of Iowa FoundationASCPA: $200,000 · OtherASCPABuilding Bridges for Peace: $175,000 · OtherBuilding Bridges for PeaceLA Conservation Corps: $120,000 · OtherYouth Emerging Stronger: $100,000 · OtherPANTHERA CORPORATION: $100,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $100,000 · Other+9 more: $140,280 · OtherHEAL THE BAY: $650,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE BAYGlobal Green USA: $200,000 · EnvironmentGlobal Green USAGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE: $160,000 · EnvironmentGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTI…TREEPEOPLE INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentTREEPEOPLE INC+3 more: $60,000 · EnvironmentPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $175,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $175,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC: $70,000 · HealthSILENT SPR…HOLLYWOOD SUNSET FREE CLINIC: $60,000 · HealthHOLLYWOOD …+1 more: $10,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesLos Angeles Youth Network: $80,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $125,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,682,096Environment$1,220,000Health$490,000Civil Rights$300,000Human Services$180,000Philanthropy$140,000Crime & Legal$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEAL THE BAY: $650,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGlobal Green USA: $200,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE: $160,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $125,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLos Angeles Youth Network: $80,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetRECYCLE HAWAII: $40,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Swain Barber Foundation dated March 28 2011 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Swain Barber Foundation dated March 28 2011. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Silent Spring Institute Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Swain Barber Foundation dated March 28 2011 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.

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 37 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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