· Private foundation
Swift Memorial Health Care Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Swift Memorial Health Care Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Ventura County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Swift Memorial Health Care Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 21 organizations, $104k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANCER HOPE FOUNDATION | $4,445 |
| HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION FOR VENTURA | $4,445 |
| BRAIN INJURY CENTER OF VENTURA COUN | $4,445 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSN CA CNTRL COAST CHA | $4,445 |
| Turning Point Foundation | $4,444 |
| Ventura College Foundation | $4,444 |
| ANDREA GRACE SOTER-SIMONSON MMRL FN | $4,444 |
| UNITED WAY OF VENTURA COUNTY | $4,444 |
| HOSPICE OF THE CONEJO VALLEY | $4,444 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $3,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF VENTURA COUNTY | $3,500 |
| Ojai Valley Community Hospital Foun | $3,500 |
| ARC OF VENTURA COUNTY | $3,500 |
| CASA PACIFICA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN | $3,500 |
| CONEJO FREE CLINIC | $3,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Swift Memorial Health Care Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +16% since the first grant, against -40% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- VCVENTURA COUNTY MEDICAL RESOURCE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +7%
- KHKHEPERA HOUSE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +76%
- WFWESTMINSTER FREE CLINIC6× · 2017–2023 · $44k · revenue +503%
Funded once
- THTHE HOME SUPPORT GROUP INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -57%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OFone grant, 2020 · $10k
- VTVentura Training Instituteone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
To strengthen and sustain vibrant communities by empowering individuals and families to build wealth through education and homeownership with a primary focus on serving low-to-moderate income clients.
Cancer support community valley/ventura/santa barbaras mission is to uplift and strengthen people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
To provide quality primary health care to people in need.
The mission of Vista Community Clinic is to advance community health and hope by providing access to premier health services and education for those who need it most.
The ventura county ombudsman program's mission is to assure the highest quality of life and care possible for those elderly persons in long term care, most of whom are frail and vulnerable and unable to represent themselves.
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
The organization provides residential and vocation support to persons with developmental disabilities.
Our mission is to be the local advocate for realtors; to enhance the professionalism, integrity, and compentency of members; and to promote private property rights.
Central coast vna & hospice, inc. is dedicated to providing the highest quality home care to the residents of the central coast by meeting their individual needs in a caring, effective, honorable, and accessible manner.
Valley care community consortium leads a collaboration of community partners to advocate, plan, assess needs, and/or implement the development of effective programs and policies to improve the health of the residents in the san fernando…
We foster reverence for life, relief of suffering, and compassion in loss for the terminally ill residents and their families in the communities we serve.
Livingston provides a variety of home health services ranging from rehabilitative care to hospice care of the highest quality in the most cost-effective manner to residents of ventura county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ventura County Medical Resource Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Khepera 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.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
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 54 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 VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY MEDICAL RESOURCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KHEPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds OJAI VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FDN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF VENTURA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY CENTER OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION FOR VENTURA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CAREGIVERS VOLUNTEERS ASSISTING THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds CONEJO FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF VENTURA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CONEJO VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF SIMI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HELP OF OJAI INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CONEJO VALLEY SENIOR CONCERNS INC ↗
- Who funds Interface Children Family Services ↗
- Who funds THE HOME SUPPORT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF VENTURA COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S HEALTHCARE 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: Ventura County Community Foundation · LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION co MUSICK PEELER & GARRETT LLP · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Sherwood Country Club Charitable Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · Dignity Health · Meadowlark Service League
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 Memorial Health Care 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.
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.
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