New Jersey · 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.
- $186k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Swenson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 34 | $181k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $170k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $136k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $146k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $145k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $124k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $105k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Partnership Institute | $213,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $56,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Family Research Council | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Honorhealth Foundation | $36,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $29,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Voice of the Martyrs Inc | $23,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Manhattan Christian Academy | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ecumenical Chaplaincy for the Homeless Inc | $19,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Freedom Alliance | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Christian Center of Park City | $15,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($442k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Swenson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Swenson Family Foundation
- How much does Swenson Family Foundation give?
- Swenson Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $186,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Swenson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (38%), Religion (17%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are Swenson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Conservative Partnership Institute ($213k), The Heritage Foundation ($56k), Family Research Council ($53k).
- Does Swenson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Swenson 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 Swenson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc, Servant Foundation.
- Where is Swenson Family Foundation based?
- Swenson Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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