· Private foundation
Swenson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR RENEWING AMERICA | $50,000 |
| CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE | $35,000 |
| DREAM CITY CHURCH | $18,000 |
| STATE FREEDOM CAUCUS NETWORK FDTN | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM CAUCUS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HONOR HEALTH FDN | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| THE VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY | $3,000 |
| HARVEST TIME ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $3,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +51% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
Conservative Partnership Institute7× · 2019–2025 · $213k · revenue +548%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue +65%- FRFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL7× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- TETHE EUMENCIAL CHAPLAINCYone grant, 2019 · $3k
- CWConcerned Women for Americaone grant, 2018 · $2k
- AMAmerican Moment Incone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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 american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
First liberty institute provides pro bono legal services to advance and defend religious liberty for individuals, churches, and other ministries and organizations.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…
The mission of the freedom forum institute is to champion the five freedoms of the first amendment through education and entertainment.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
Americans united for separation of church and state is a nonpartisan educational and advocacy organization dedicated to advancing the separation of religion and government as the only way to ensure freedom of religion, including the right…
The religious freedom institute is committed to achieving a broad acceptance of religious liberty as a fundamental human right, the cornerstone of a successful society, and a source of national and international security.
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Policy Alliance Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Heroes Equine Assisted Riding Therapy. 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 32 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 2% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 91 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 Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Ecumenical Chaplaincy for the Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom Caucus Foundation ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Human Services Campus Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds America First Legal Foundation ↗
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: Donors Trust Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Swenson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital — 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.