Illinois · Public charity
Swifty Foundation
The Swifty Foundation exists to support research aimed at understanding the causes of pediatric cancer and finding a cure. It issues research and infrastructure grants to hospitals, labs and researchers who are focused on improving the outcomes of children who are diagnosed with brain cancer.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $160,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $533,235
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Swifty Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $476k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $1.2M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $809k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $578k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $1.1M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $1.0M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $440k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $510k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation | $2,371,128 | 8 | 0% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $760,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | $650,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $541,798 | 3 | 0% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Solving Kids' Cancer Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers | $215,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation | $180,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $110,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Weill Cornell Imaging at Newyork-Presbyterian | $90,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation | $2,371,128 | 8 | 0% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $760,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | $650,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $541,798 | 3 | 0% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Solving Kids' Cancer Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers | $215,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation | $180,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $110,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Weill Cornell Imaging at Newyork-Presbyterian | $90,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Orlando Health Foundation Inc | $48,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Prep4gold | $25,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Kids vs Cancer | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Society for Neuro-Oncology | $10,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Kids V Cancer | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Arms Wide Open Childhood Cancer Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Swifty Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Swifty Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Swifty Foundation 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.
About Swifty Foundation
- How much does Swifty Foundation give?
- Swifty Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $1,160,980 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Swifty Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (100%).
- Who are Swifty Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation ($2.4M), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($760k), Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health ($650k).
- Does Swifty Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Swifty Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Swifty Foundation based?
- Swifty Foundation is based in IL.
Play a game based on Swifty’s filings →