Washington · Private foundation
Swains Cable 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.
- $2k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,130
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Swains Cable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $2k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $3k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $7k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $5k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $9k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $4k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Medical Center Foundation | $14,052 | 4 | 0% |
| Captain Joseph House Foundation | $1,590 | 2 | 0% |
| Olympic Peninsula Equine Network | $475 | 1 | n/a |
| Welfare For Animals Guild | $455 | 1 | 0% |
| Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue | $350 | 1 | n/a |
| Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Wild Horse Education | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| Sequim Prairie Grange | $125 | 1 | n/a |
| Dungeness River Nature Center | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: First Fed Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Swains Cable Foundation
- How much does Swains Cable Foundation give?
- Swains Cable Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $2,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Swains Cable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (52%), Youth Development (15%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Swains Cable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Olympic Medical Center Foundation ($14k), Captain Joseph House Foundation ($2k), Olympic Peninsula Equine Network ($475).
- Does Swains Cable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Swains Cable 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 Swains Cable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Fed Foundation, Network for Good, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Swains Cable Foundation based?
- Swains Cable Foundation is based in WA.
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