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Swantz Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Environment$108kYouth Development$97kRecreation & Sports$23kEducation$22kHuman Services$22kArts & Culture$16kCommunity Improvement$15kFood & Nutrition$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$748k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORPSTHAT$5,000
OCETI SAKOWIN COMMUNITY ACADEMY$5,000
YOUNG MASTERMINDS INITIATIVE$5,000
CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK$5,000
PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE$5,000
YES NATURE TO NEIGHBORHOODS$4,000
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEARNING ALLIANCE$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
CAMP ENCOURAGE$4,000
WILDERNESS LOUISVILLE$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,000
PASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER$3,000
ELEVATEHER$3,000
WILD EARTH$3,000
WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $5k → 5%CORPSTHAT: $5k → 19%WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $3k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
NC
SC
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$218k · 26 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
24

Total granted

$218k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+15%

Still filing today

73%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEmploymentOther

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

  • WE
    WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +21%
  • E
    elevateHER
    5× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +201%
  • AC
    ASHOKAN CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • BB
    Backyard Basecamp Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -97%
  • SF
    San Francisco Bay Bird Observatorygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +58%
  • TC
    TRAILBLAZER CAMPS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wild Whatcom

Wild Whatcom's mission is to foster lifelong connections with nature and community through outdoor exploration and service.

Education
2
Outdoor Equity Alliance

To create equitable access to nature in all communities and inspire a diverse new generation of environmental leaders.

Food & Nutrition
3
White Pine Programs

White Pine Programs' mission is to host shared outdoor experiences that awaken curiosity, build personal resilience, and cultivate caring relationships with self, community, and the natural world.

Education
4
Discovery Pathways

Our mission is to uplift the well-being of the community through experiential nature-based programs. By providing hands-on environmental education to urban youth and adults, we empower leaders and cultivate a connection to the natural…

Environment
5
Rochester Ecology Partners Inc

Rochester Ecology Partners helps all people find nature where they live, work, and play.

Environment
6
Whole Earth Nature School

Mentoring students in the outdoors to foster confidence, resilience and kinship with nature. our programs center wilderness skills and empower students to be at the center of their own learning.

Environment
7
Outdoor Journeys Inc

Inspiring individuals to connect with the natural world

Youth Development
8
The Catamount Institute

Catamount Institute is dedicated to connecting kids to the outdoors through environmental education and outdoor adventures.

Human Services
9
Outdoor Education Laboratory Inc

To provide children with an experience in the outdoors that will instill in them a sense of responsibility and respect for the environment throughout their lifetime.

Environment
10
Everwild

Everwild is committed to engaging and mentoring children and families to develop a meaningful attachment to the earth.

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11
Yampatika

Yampatika's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through education. They fulfil that mission by developing environmental learning opportunities that serve the children and adults of Northwest Colorado.

Environment
12
Post

We strive to encourage environmental awareness, leadership, diversity, self-confidence, and knowledge of the outdoors. We help to build a sense of community, which may not otherwise be found in an urban environment.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ecology Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp for All Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Local Food System Organizat…Health Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsChristian Youth CampsCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,511

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 66 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL — $21,500 · Youth DevelopmentWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCH…elevateHER — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentelevateHERVAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT — $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentVAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECTDavis Forest School — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentDavis Forest SchoolWilderness Youth Project Inc — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentWilderness Youth Project …TRAILBLAZER CAMPS INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRAILBLAZER CAMPS INCYOUNG MASTERMINDS INITIATIVE INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG MASTERMINDS INITIAT…YES Nature to Neighborhoods — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp for All Kids — $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentTFK Chicago Voyagers — $3,500 · Youth Development+2 more — $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentAUSTIN EXPLORE INC(DBA EXPLORE AUS — $13,000 · OtherAUSTIN EXPLORE INC(DBA EXPLORE …BAY AREA WILDERNESS TRAINING (FISCA — $9,500 · OtherBAY AREA WILDERNESS TRAINING (F…WILD CANYON DISCOVERY — $9,000 · OtherWILD CANYON DISCOVERYALLISON WOODS OUTDOOR LEARNING CENTER — $6,203 · OtherALLISON WOODS OUTDOOR LEARNING …FRIENDS OF CIBOLO WILDERNESS(DBA CI — $6,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CIBOLO WILDERNESS(DB…REVISION EDUCATION(FISCAL SPONSOR — $6,000 · OtherREVISION EDUCATION(FISCAL SPONS…MACARTHUR BEACH STATE PARK — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $4,000 · OtherROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES — $3,500 · OtherHAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC — $7,000 · OtherHAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION IN…GREEN GUERILLAS INC — $4,000 · OtherSouth Carolina Aquarium — $5,000 · OtherGROW PORTLAND — $6,000 · OtherGROW PORTLAND+9 more — $15,000 · Other+9 moreASHOKAN CENTER INC — $10,500 · EnvironmentASHOKAN CENTER INCRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · EnvironmentRARITAN HEADWATERS AS…FAMILIES IN NATURE — $5,500 · EnvironmentFAMILIES IN NATURESan Francisco Bay Bird Observatory — $5,000 · EnvironmentSan Francisco Bay Bir…ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMA…PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY — $5,000 · EnvironmentPARTNERS FOR EDUCATIO…FRIENDS OF CIBOLO WILDERNESS — $4,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF CIBOLO WIL…CITYSPROUTS INC — $4,000 · EnvironmentCITYSPROUTS INCEcology Education Inc — $4,000 · EnvironmentEcology Education IncWILDERNESS LOUISVILLE INC — $3,500 · EnvironmentUpstream Alliance Inc — $3,500 · EnvironmentNorth Cascades Institute — $2,500 · Environment+3 more — $4,000 · Environment+3 moreCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK — $25,000 · EducationCHILDREN & NATURE…Backyard Basecamp Inc — $9,000 · EducationBackyard Basecamp…Oceti Sakowin Community Academy — $5,000 · EducationOceti Sakowin Com…Princeton-Blairstown Center Inc — $4,000 · EducationPrinceton-Blairst…NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEARNING ALLIANCE — $4,000 · EducationNATIONAL OUTDOOR …BIOCITIZEN INC — $4,000 · EducationBIOCITIZEN INCGreen Works In Kansas City — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationWOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE — $8,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S W…FRESH AIR FAMILY INC — $6,500 · Human ServicesFRESH AIR…CORPSTHAT INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCORPSTHAT…FRIENDS OF CAMP NATOMA INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS O…Camp Encourage — $4,000 · Human ServicesCamp Enco…HUDSON HIGHLANDS NATURE CENTER — $8,985 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE NOMADS LTD — $5,000 · Arts & CultureRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsCamp Solomon Schechter — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Youth Development$79,500Other$99,203Environment$66,500Education$54,500Human Services$28,500Arts & Culture$13,985Recreation & Sports$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK — $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL — $21,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetelevateHER — $15,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetASHOKAN CENTER INC — $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBackyard Basecamp Inc — $9,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHUDSON HIGHLANDS NATURE CENTER — $8,985 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE — $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FAMILY INC — $6,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT — $6,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDavis Forest School — $6,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROW PORTLAND — $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILIES IN NATURE — $5,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSan Francisco Bay Bird Observatory — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOceti Sakowin Community Academy — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRAILBLAZER CAMPS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Solomon Schechter — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAMP NATOMA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE NOMADS LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREEN GUERILLAS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CIBOLO WILDERNESS — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPrinceton-Blairstown Center Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITYSPROUTS INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEcology Education Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIOCITIZEN INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCamp for All Kids — $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTFK Chicago Voyagers — $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUpstream Alliance Inc — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER IN — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGreen Works In Kansas City — $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNorth Cascades Institute — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOlympic Nature Experience — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTotal Health Care Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLAR YOUTH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Recreation F…Clif Family FoundationPatagoniaorgThe Outdoor FoundationRei Cooperative Actio…The Keith Campbell Fo…ImpactassetsincSeattle FoundationNational Park Foundat…Novo FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…National Fish and Wil…
National Recreation Foundation IncorporatedIL27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Recreation Foundation Incorporated · Clif Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Outdoor Foundation · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Impactassetsinc · Seattle Foundation · National Park Foundation · Novo Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife 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 Swantz Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
  • Grow Portland — 36% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Solar Youth Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Total Health Care Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Citysprouts Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Swantz Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Swantz Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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