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Swig Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k101 grants · $260k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $490k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $31,415 |
| SF JAZZ | $30,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $29,000 |
| TREASURE VALLEY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE SERICA INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $23,960 |
| SUN VALLEY WRITER'S CONFERENCE INC | $23,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $23,000 |
| STANFORD JAZZ WORKSHOP | $20,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE | $20,000 |
| KQED | $19,265 |
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 (FY17–24, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 7% of Swig 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. Read by recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 53% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
244 repeat relationships — 100 still active in FY2024, 144 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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
- SFSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +5%
- MAMunicipal Art Society of New York8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +28%
- CSCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $169k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- TITHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INCone grant, 2019 · $36k · revenue -27%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JAFFAone grant, 2021 · $36k
- TCTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUBone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Full Circle Exchange International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
274 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. 274 of the 409 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Municipal Art Society of New York ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRICYCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds SOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds THE SAGE SCHOOL 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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Koret Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Bothin Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · The James Irvine Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Spur Community 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 Swig 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- National Center for Jewish Filminc — 4% of income from government
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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