New York · Private foundation
Swantz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $74k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 19
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $748k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Swantz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 25 | $74k | 64% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $65k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $31k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $56k | 92% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $71k | 89% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $28k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children & Nature Network | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wild Earth Wilderness School | $21,500 | 5 | 0% |
| elevateHER | $15,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Ashokan Center Inc | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Raritan Headwaters Association | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Backyard Basecamp Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wild Canyon Discovery | $9,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hudson Highlands Nature Center | $8,985 | 2 | 1% |
| Women's Wilderness Institute | $8,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ramapo for Children Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Swantz Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Swantz Family Foundation
- How much does Swantz Family Foundation give?
- Swantz Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $74,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Swantz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (31%), Youth Development (27%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
- Who are Swantz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Children & Nature Network ($25k), Wild Earth Wilderness School ($22k), elevateHER ($15k).
- Does Swantz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Swantz Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Swantz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Recreation Foundation Incorporated, Clif Family Foundation, Patagoniaorg.
- Where is Swantz Family Foundation based?
- Swantz Family Foundation is based in NY.
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