· Private foundation
Swift Illges Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTACHOOCHEE VALLEY | $16,200 |
| HIGHLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FEEDING THE VALLEY | $8,200 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COLUMBUS & PHENIX CITY INC | $6,000 |
| COLUMBUS HOSPICE | $6,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,200 |
| VALLEY RESCUE MISSION | $5,200 |
| SAFEHOUSE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS | $5,000 |
| SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - COLUMBUS | $3,000 |
| STEWART COMMUNITY HOME | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 1% of your 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $113k · revenue +64%
- MOMERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN7× · 2019–2025 · $52k · revenue +114%
- FTFeeding the Valley Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $44k · revenue +843%
Funded once
- NINATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINCone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -5%
- JOJACK OKELLEY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $5k
- HOHouse of Heroes Chattahoocheeone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -15%
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.
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
The columbus museum brings american art and history to life for the communities of the chattahoochee valley.
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
Receive and provide contributions for charitable and educational activities
To work towards the prevention and elimination of domestic and dating violence.
Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…
Colony retirement homes iii is dedicated to providing affordable housing for seniors of low and moderate income.
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
To create and maintain safe, healthy, and affordable rental homes for those who need them most.
The Ross County Historical Societys mission is to preserve, educate, and promote the study of the city of Chillicothe, Ross County, and the surrounding region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Wynn House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHT FROM THE START ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE WYNN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds House of Heroes Chattahoochee ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE STEWART COMMUNITY HOME INC ↗
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: Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · John P and Dorothy S Illges Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · Beloco Foundation Inc · The Cms Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · George and Ann Swift Family 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 Illges Foundation Inc 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.
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.