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Swift Foundation co Manchester Capital Management

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of Swift Foundation co Manchester Capital Management’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$6,710,245
Median grant
1
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
See Grant Statement$6,710,245
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Arizona Community Foundation: $30k → 11%Honor the Earth: $40k → 10%Native Americans in Philanthropy: $5k → 11%Movement Strategy Center: $25k → 10%California FarmLink: $25k → 13%Social and Environmental Entreprene: $8k → 14%See Grant Statement: $7.5M → 14%Yansa Inc: $35k → 6%Land is Life: $26k → 20%E-TechInternational: $50k → 12%New Venture Fund: $90k → 14%Environmental Law Alliance Worldwid: $30k → 15%Global Greengrants Fund: $325k → 12%Community Alliance for Global Justi: $25k → 9%Youth Venture Inc: $10k → 7%Virginia Organizing Inc: $25k → 8%Int'l Alliance for SustainabilityAg: $10k → 11%Biodiversity Funders Group: $50k → 10%See Grant Statement: $6.7M → 14%Land is Life: $25k → 20%New Venture Fund: $20k → 14%Global Greengrants Fund: $319k → 12%Int'l Funders for Indigenous People: $50k → 10%See Grant Statement: $4.7M → 14%EarthRights International: $40k → 14%Global Greengrants Fund: $125k → 12%RSF Social Finance: $50k → 10%See Grant Statement: $4.7M → 14%New Venture Fund: $20k → 14%Global Greengrants Fund: $100k → 12%Thousand Currents: $50k → 10%Cultural Conservancy: $40k → 10%See Grant Statement: $4.0M → 14%MCE Social Capital: $24k → 14%Global Greengrants Fund: $80k → 12%Thousand Currents: $30k → 10%Int'l Funders for Indigenous People: $10k → 10%See Grant Statement: $3.2M → 14%Global Greengrants Fund: $76k → 12%Earth Island Institute: $10k → 10%See Grant Statement: $2.5M → 14%Global Greengrants Fund: $35k → 12%Global Greengrants Fund: $26k → 12%Center for the Study of Americas: $8k → 10%Global Greengrants Fund: $20k → 12%The Oakland Institute: $40k → 10%AIDA: $40k → 10%Global Greengrants Fund: $20k → 12%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
MN
NY
OR
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NM
DC

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 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
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
2
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
3
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
4
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
7
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
10
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
11
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
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Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is California Farmlink. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%50%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr13%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%65%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr13%2%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,945

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

32 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. 32 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
28/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

See Grant Statement — $33,243,492 · OtherSee Grant Statement+19 more — $448,646 · OtherGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $1,130,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND — $130,000 · EnvironmentE-TECH INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 · Environment+5 more — $95,500 · EnvironmentGroundswell International Inc — $140,000 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTS — $80,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL FUNDERS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES — $60,000 · InternationalRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC — $50,000 · Social ScienceCommunity Alliance for Global Justice — $25,000 · Social ScienceCONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp — $64,150 · Science & TechVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $25,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Community ImprovementEARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $40,000 · Civil RightsInternational Indian Treaty Council Inc — $5,000 · Civil RightsNative Americans in Philanthropy — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$33,692,138Environment$1,405,500International$280,000Social Science$75,000Science & Tech$64,150Community Improvement$52,500Civil Rights$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $1,130,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGroundswell International Inc — $140,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $130,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS — $80,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp — $64,150 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUNDERS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES — $60,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLand is Life Inc — $51,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetE-TECH INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetThe Oakland Institute — $44,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation — $40,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetEARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYANSA INC — $35,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE — $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARMLINK — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Alliance for Global Justice — $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH VENTURE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for the study of the Americas — $8,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Indian Treaty Council Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNative Americans in Philanthropy — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rivers Network — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAS YOU SOW — $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.

Rsf Social Finance IncGlobal Greengrants Fu…The Schmidt Family Fo…Tides FoundationThe Christensen FundThe Ford FoundationThe David and Lucile …ImpactassetsincMarin Community Found…Charles Stewart Mott …John D and Catherine …Amalgamated Charitabl…
Rsf Social Finance IncCA31.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rsf Social Finance Inc · Global Greengrants Fund · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Christensen Fund · The Ford Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Marin Community Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable 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 Swift Foundation co Manchester Capital Management 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.

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Swift Foundation co Manchester Capital Management?

    Find your warmest path to Swift Foundation co Manchester Capital Management 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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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