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Swank Family Foundation at a glance

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Swank Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$516kPublic Safety & Disaster$350kEducation$275kPhilanthropy$206kHealth$150kReligion$125kHousing & Shelter$58kFood & Nutrition$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULSA POLICE FOUNDATION$250,000
DREXEL ACADEMY$150,000
TULSA DREAM CENTER$100,000
ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$100,000
AKDAR SHRINE OF TULSA$100,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$100,000
RAE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OK$100,000
UNITED CAJUN ARMY$100,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$75,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$75,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SALVATION ARMY: $25k → 14%ROGERS STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 10%TULSA DREAM CENTER: $100k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS: $25k → 15%RAE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 18%OSU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25k → 19%WOUNDED WARRIOR: $33k → 14%ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $100k → 17%PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25k → 14%A NEW LEAF: $25k → 15%RAE-CORPORATION FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25k → 18%ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $25k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OK: $100k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25k → 15%ACT TULSA: $100k → 15%GREEN COUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $25k → 15%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $100k → 15%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%FOLDS OF HONOR: $75k → 15%TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%DREXEL ACADEMY: $150k → 15%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA: $25k → 15%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OK: $1k → 15%TULSA POLICE FOUNDATION: $250k → 15%TPD FOUNDATION: $80k → 15%AKDAR SHRINE OF TULSA: $100k → 15%SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 15%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.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$276k · 3 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
16

Total granted

$276k
$639k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+16%

Still filing today

67%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24
EducationFood & NutritionCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +59%
  • MA
    MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $125k
  • COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $26k · revenue -13%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $110k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • TF
    TPD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $80k
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
Tulsa Neighborhood Networks Inc

Provide the poor of the city of tulsa, oklahoma an opportunity to improve their quality of life through guidance and training in the areas of education, employment, family skills, healthcare, housing, socialization and spirituality.

Community Improvement
2
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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3
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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4
The City Lights Foundation of Oklahoma

Our mission is rooted in the belief that meaningful relationships restore communities. through relational service and dignified housing solutions, we work to help people move from surviving to thriving.

Human Services
5
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
6
Tulsa Casa Inc

Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights
7
Tulsa Community Service Center Inc

Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities

Human Services
8
Crossover Health Services Inc

Crossover health services (chs) envisions a christian healthcare movement where faith, strong relationships, and shared resources drive community restoration and eliminate health disparities. we believe that healthcare is a right, not a…

Health
9
Tulsa Firefighters Benevolence Fund

Provide relief to family members due to death, injury, or illness.

Philanthropy
10
Tulsa Honor Academy Inc

The operation of a public charter school in the tulsa area with the mission to equip all scholars with the academic skills, content knowledge, and ethical character required for college graduation and life success.

Education
11
Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc

Community action project of tulsa county inc.'s (cap tulsa) mission is to help young children in lower-income families grow up and achieve economic success.

Human Services
12
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Dream Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mid-America Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America. 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

13 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. 13 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $100,015 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAKDAR SHRINE OF TULSA: $100,000 · OtherAKDAR SHRINE OF TULSARAE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherRAE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUNITED CAJUN ARMY: $100,000 · OtherUNITED CAJUN ARMYCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OK: $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OKTPD FOUNDATION: $80,000 · OtherTPD FOUNDATION+13 more: $324,500 · Other+13 moreTulsa Police Foundation Inc: $250,000 · Crime & LegalTulsa Police F…DREXEL ACADEMY INC: $150,000 · EducationDREXEL ACADE…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HON…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $125,000 · HealthTULSA DREAM CENTER INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $26,000 · Food & NutritionMeals on Wheels of Norman Inc: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,139,515Crime & Legal$250,000Education$225,000Health$125,000Youth Development$100,000Human Services$75,000Food & Nutrition$51,000

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 budgetTulsa Police Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetDREXEL ACADEMY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA DREAM CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA DAY CENTER INC: $33,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Norman Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA NEW LEAF INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMID-AMERICA CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Tulsa Community Found…Amazonsmile Foundation
Tulsa Community FoundationOK13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · 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 Swank Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Swank Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Tulsa Day Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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 · 0–30%
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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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By state
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