Colorado · Private foundation
Swift Wings Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $144k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $109,090
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Swift Wings Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 3 | $144k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $319k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $159k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $159k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $159k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $169k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $224k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $130k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth Day Network Inc | $943,630 | 9 | 3% |
| Evangelicals for Democracy | $150,000 | 2 | 40% |
| Southwest Voter Registration Education Project Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Deployus Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 6% |
| American Farmland Trust | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rachel's Network Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Idanha Films Inc | $23,017 | 2 | n/a |
| At the Table Colorado | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth Day Network Inc | $943,630 | 9 | 3% |
| Evangelicals for Democracy | $150,000 | 2 | 40% |
| Southwest Voter Registration Education Project Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Deployus Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 6% |
| American Farmland Trust | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rachel's Network Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Idanha Films Inc | $23,017 | 2 | n/a |
| At the Table Colorado | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mediators Foundation Inc | $18,200 | 1 | 2% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Regeneration Project | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Alliance For Collective Action | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Generation Exchange | $4,792 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Swift Wings Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Impactassetsinc · Steiner King Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Swift Wings Foundation
- How much does Swift Wings Foundation give?
- Swift Wings Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $144,090 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Swift Wings Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (70%), Public Benefit (17%), Education (3%).
- Who are Swift Wings Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Earth Day Network Inc ($944k), Evangelicals for Democracy ($150k), Southwest Voter Registration Education Project Inc ($100k).
- Does Swift Wings Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Swift Wings Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Swift Wings Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Steiner King Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
- Where is Swift Wings Foundation based?
- Swift Wings Foundation is based in CO.
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