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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
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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.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationCivil RightsFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$144k33%
FY20244$319k25%
FY20234$159k25%
FY20222$159k50%
FY20213$159k67%
FY20205$169k40%
FY20197$224k86%
FY20184$130k50%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.0MPublic Benefit$250kEducation$50kPhilanthropy$45kArts & Culture$23kFood & Nutrition$20kInternational$18kReligion$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Earth Day Network Inc$943,63093%
Evangelicals for Democracy$150,000240%
Southwest Voter Registration Education Project Inc$100,000114%
Deployus Inc$75,00026%
American Farmland Trust$50,00020%
George Mason University Foundation Inc$50,00020%
Sierra Club Foundation$30,00020%
Rachel's Network Inc$25,00012%
Idanha Films Inc$23,0172n/a
At the Table Colorado$20,0001n/a
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All grantees of Swift Wings Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Earth Day Network Inc$943,63093%
Evangelicals for Democracy$150,000240%
Southwest Voter Registration Education Project Inc$100,000114%
Deployus Inc$75,00026%
American Farmland Trust$50,00020%
George Mason University Foundation Inc$50,00020%
Sierra Club Foundation$30,00020%
Rachel's Network Inc$25,00012%
Idanha Films Inc$23,0172n/a
At the Table Colorado$20,0001n/a
Mediators Foundation Inc$18,20012%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$10,00010%
The Regeneration Project$5,00010%
The Alliance For Collective Action$5,00010%
Generation Exchange$4,7921n/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.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEarth Day Network Inc: $943,630 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetEvangelicals for Democracy: $150,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetSouthwest Voter Registration Education Project Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDeployus Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetAmerican Farmland Trust: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGeorge Mason University Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRachel's Network Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMediators Foundation Inc: $18,200 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Regeneration Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Alliance For Collective Action: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

ImpactassetsincMD14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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