· Private foundation
Swartz Foundation Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $539k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $2,500,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS | $500,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| BETHEL AME CHURCH35TH ANNIVERSARY | $100,000 |
| VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST | $100,000 |
| PANORAMA GLOBAL | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $100,000 |
| SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | $84,885 |
| US SKI & SNOWBOARD ASSOCIATION | $56,000 |
| CIRCUIT ARTS | $50,000 |
| WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC | $50,000 |
| COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $332k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CMCarnegie Mellon University5× · 2017–2021 · $12M · revenue +15%
- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +82%
- CCCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +59%
Funded once
- MVMartha's Vineyard Arena Incone grant, 2017 · $650k
- UUSSTFone grant, 2019 · $518k
- PCPOSTSECONDARY COMMISSION INC (COLLEGE 101)one grant, 2023 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheriff's Meadow Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Resolve Uganda Incorporated. 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
115 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. 115 of the 160 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds Martha's Vineyard Arena Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Association ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Anti-Corruption Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIOLOGICAL MEDICINE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIRCUIT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Share Winter Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CIVILIZATION WORKS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Mimi and Peter Haas Fund · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · South Mountain Company Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · Sad Foundation Inc
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 Swartz Foundation Trust 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.
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Bma Tenpoint Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Circuit Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.