How much does Swanson Family Foundation give?

Swanson Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $31,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Swanson Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (25%), Housing & Shelter (25%), Public Safety & Disaster (9%).

Who are Swanson Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Covenant House Alaska ($61k), Food Bank of Alaska ($33k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($23k).

Does Swanson Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Swanson Family 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 Swanson Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Alaska Community Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, The Carr Foundation Inc.

Where is Swanson Family Foundation based?

Swanson Family Foundation is based in DE.

Foundation Dossiers

Delaware · Private foundation

Swanson Family 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.

$31k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 9
Grants FY2025: 12
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $3,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $7,500
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 13; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $1.5M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Swanson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	7	$26k	29%
FY2024	12	$35k	33%
FY2023	12	$42k	33%
FY2022	7	$24k	29%
FY2021	13	$65k	54%
FY2020	9	$33k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$61kHousing & Shelter$61kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kPhilanthropy$20kHealth$19kRecreation & Sports$18kArts & Culture$15kHuman Services$11kOther$0

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
Covenant House Alaska	$60,500	6	0%
Food Bank of Alaska	$33,000	5	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$22,500	3	0%
Beans Cafe Inc	$20,000	5	0%
Challenge Alaska	$10,000	1	1%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska	$9,500	3	0%
Anchorage Community Mental Health Services Inc	$7,500	3	0%
Anchorage Museum Association	$7,000	2	0%
Upper Susitna Food Pantry	$5,500	2	1%
TBA Theatre Inc	$5,000	1	4%

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All grantees of Swanson Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Covenant House Alaska	$60,500	6	0%
Food Bank of Alaska	$33,000	5	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$22,500	3	0%
Beans Cafe Inc	$20,000	5	0%
Challenge Alaska	$10,000	1	1%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska	$9,500	3	0%
Anchorage Community Mental Health Services Inc	$7,500	3	0%
Anchorage Museum Association	$7,000	2	0%
Upper Susitna Food Pantry	$5,500	2	1%
TBA Theatre Inc	$5,000	1	4%
Hope Community Resources Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Catholic Social Services	$4,000	2	0%
Lutheran Social Services of Alaska	$4,000	2	0%
University of Alaska Foundation	$4,000	2	0%
Abused Women's Aid in Crisis Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Leave the Fob Ministry	$2,500	1	n/a
Kenai River Sportfishing Association	$2,500	5	0%
Arctic Winter Games Team Alaska	$2,500	1	1%
Alyeska Ski Club Inc	$2,500	1	0%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention	$2,500	1	0%
Alaska Public Media Inc	$2,500	4	0%
Anchorage Youth Court	$2,500	1	1%
Downtown Soup Kitchen Inc	$2,000	1	0%
The Arc of Anchorage	$2,000	1	0%
Christopher Waldens Foundation of Hope	$1,800	1	1%
Bethany Partners	$750	2	n/a
About Face	$500	1	n/a
Leading With Legacy - the Heart Project	$300	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Swanson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

The Alaska Community FoundationAK46.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · United Way of Anchorage · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Providence Alaska Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Atwood Foundation Inc · Crowley Cares Foundation · Give Back 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.

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About Swanson Family Foundation

How much does Swanson Family Foundation give?: Swanson Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $31,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Swanson Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (25%), Housing & Shelter (25%), Public Safety & Disaster (9%).
Who are Swanson Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Covenant House Alaska ($61k), Food Bank of Alaska ($33k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($23k).
Does Swanson Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Swanson Family 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 Swanson Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Alaska Community Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, The Carr Foundation Inc.
Where is Swanson Family Foundation based?: Swanson Family Foundation is based in DE.