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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.

$750k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
127
Grants FY2024
99
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$31,415
Organizations funded a year
99 to 196
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$11M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Swig Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalHealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving122$715k18%
FY202399$522k15%
FY2022148$885k18%
FY2021162$827k13%
FY2020196$929k28%
FY2019177$905k17%
FY2018176$910k32%
FY2017170$880kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.2MEducation$1.3MHealth$714kInternational$531kReligion$492kEnvironment$351kFood & Nutrition$226kHuman Services$215kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 277 grantees
All grantees of Swig Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Womens Media Center Inc$325,00085%
San Francisco Jazz Organization$244,98580%
Municipal Art Society of New York$205,20082%
Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund$169,18080%
California College of the Arts$163,06080%
Kqed Inc$134,34080%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$127,50070%
Sun Valley Writers' Conference Inc$127,00071%
Congregation Emanu-El$122,5007n/a
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$121,20080%
San Francisco Food Bank$109,50080%
University of San Diego$104,27560%
Human Rights Watch Inc$96,00070%
Central Synagogue$93,5756n/a
Greenlight Clinic$88,350720%
Earth Island Institute Inc$86,38880%
Spirit Rock Meditation Center$85,2508n/a
Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc$84,00071%
Marin Country Day School$81,00060%
Wake Forest University$80,00030%
Tricycle Foundation$75,00080%
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$65,00070%
China Institute in America Incorporated$63,00030%
Preservation Hall Foundation Inc$61,00081%
The Clear Fund$59,33820%
Solar Electric Light Fund$55,35042%
San Francisco Art Institute$49,25050%
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation$49,00080%
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation$45,93760%
Ballet Idaho Inc$45,00051%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Bay Area$43,17530%
The Sage School Inc$42,00041%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$40,00030%
Npr Foundation$40,00050%
Road Recovery Foundation Inc$37,50082%
Tipping Point Community$37,50060%
The Institute for the Advancement of Education in Jaffa Inc$36,00011%
Lubavitch Youth Organization$35,2003n/a
Djerassi Resident Artists Program$35,00051%
Blaine County Hunger Coalition Inc$35,00070%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$34,42770%
American Jewish Committee$34,27550%
Marin Academy$34,00040%
Marin Primary & Middle School$33,50070%
Headlands Center for the Arts$31,77560%
Urban School of San Francisco$31,00050%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$30,00030%
Dia Center for the Arts Inc$30,00050%
Stanford Jazz Workshop$30,00021%
Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space$29,00080%
Scleroderma Research Foundation$28,75050%
Birthright Israel Foundation$28,60020%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$28,00030%
Turnout Activism Inc$27,00031%
Vail Health Services Foundation$26,47830%
Sun Valley Performing Arts Inc$25,50030%
Serica Initiative Inc$25,00017%
The Wilkes Bashford Helping HandsEF$25,000414%
Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc$25,00020%
Center for Community Change$25,00020%
Ahrc New York City Foundation Inc$24,00011%
Sonoma Land Trust$23,50080%
California Trout Inc$23,47860%
Oakwood School$22,00020%
Town School for Boys$21,50080%
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens$21,47761%
Sun Valley Culinary Institute Inc$20,00015%
Farwise Inc$20,00022%
The Community Library Association Inc$19,50060%
Kitchen Sisters$19,50081%
University of San Francisco$19,00020%
San Francisco Film Society$18,00050%
Schools of the Sacred Heart-San Francisco$17,0008n/a
The Against Malaria Foundation$17,00060%
The Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco$16,00051%
The Horns Project Inc$15,500315%
Community Music Center$15,50030%
Polaris Project$15,00030%
Trout Unlimited Inc$15,00030%
Ballet Sun Valley Inc$15,00021%
Full Circle Exchange International$15,00014%
Moyo Institute Inc$15,000120%
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Inc$15,00030%
Henrys Fork Foundation Inc$15,00060%
Hamakua Youth Foundation Inc$15,00082%
Insight Meditation Society Inc$14,5008n/a
San Francisco Symphony$13,97830%
Animal Shelter of Wood River Valley Dba Mountain Humane$13,00040%
Trout Unlimited$12,5003n/a
Alive and Free$12,50010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$12,00080%
Holy Family Day Home$10,50080%
The Contemporary Jewish Museum$10,40050%
The Crisis Hotline Inc$10,25027%
Regional Plan Association Inc$10,0001n/a
The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc$10,00010%
Aim High for High School$10,00010%
Vet Voice Foundation Inc$10,00010%
The Hamptons International Film Festival Inc$10,00020%
Hispanics in Philanthropy$10,00030%
Living With Wolves Ltd$10,00011%
Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc$10,00010%
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation$10,00010%
Hebrew Free Loan Association of San Francisco$9,50010%
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums$9,50060%
San Francisco Zen Center$9,5007n/a
The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute$9,50050%
Schools Mentoring and Resources Team Inc (Smart)$9,25050%
The Uc Davis Foundation$9,00050%
Lee Pesky Learning Center Inc$9,00050%
The Berkshire School Inc$9,00040%
San Francisco Conservatory of Music$8,00040%
Berkeley Preparatory School Inc$8,0007n/a
Friends of the Cameo$8,00031%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College$8,00030%
St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc$7,50030%
La Casa de las Madres$7,50020%
World Central Kitchen Inc$7,50040%
The Parrish Art Museum Inc$7,50020%
FOR-SITE Foundation$7,50020%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$7,50030%
Katherine Delmar Burke School$7,00070%
Summer Search$7,00080%
Johns Hopkins University$6,68820%
Monterey Jazz Festival$6,50030%
Article3org$6,50023%
La Luz Center$6,50080%
The Maven Project$6,00020%
Inside Circle Foundation of California Public Benefit Coropoation$6,00031%
Our Town St Helena$6,00061%
The Exploratorium$5,75060%
St Helena Volunteer Fire Department$5,75051%
California Academy of Sciences$5,50070%
University High School$5,50060%
Jewish Resource Center$5,4002n/a
Equal Justice Initiative$5,00010%
United Nations Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Center for Cuban Studiesinc$5,00011%
Reproductive Freedom for All$5,00010%
Pi Beta Phi Foundation$5,00020%
Ploughshares Fund Inc$5,00050%
City Arts & Lectures Inc$5,00050%
Youthpower365$5,00010%
North Beach Citizens$5,00050%
National Partnership for Women and Families$5,00010%
The Authors Guild Foundation Inc$5,00070%
Impactisrael Inc$5,00010%
Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco$5,00010%
Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc$5,00010%
Young People in Recovery$5,00010%
American Near East Refugee Aid$5,00020%
Vail Veterans Foundation Inc$5,00020%
Oakland Museum of California$4,75030%
Seva Foundation$4,75080%
Meals on Wheels of San Francisco Inc$4,50080%
The Chinati Foundation$4,50030%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$4,50030%
Audubon Canyon Ranch Inc$4,50050%
Breast Cancer Prevention Partners$4,50050%
Life Learning Academy$4,50030%
David Brower Center$4,08810%
Francisco Park Conservancy$4,00020%
Bread & Roses Presents$4,00040%
Givedirectly Inc$4,00020%
Healdsburg Jazz Festival Inc$4,00020%
Food Runners$4,00087%
Muttville$4,00060%
Delancey Street California$4,00060%
Episcopal Community Services$3,75080%
Hamilton Families$3,50050%
Safe & Sound$3,50070%
Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association$3,50050%
Global Fund for Women Inc$3,50080%
The Mosaic Project$3,25050%
Environmental Working Group$3,25080%
Bard College$3,08830%
Beyond Differences$3,00010%
Museum Associates$3,00030%
Compass Family Services$3,00020%
SUGi FOUNDATION$3,00021%
Ten Strands$3,00030%
Amnesty International of the USA Inc$3,00030%
National Center for Jewish Filminc$3,00011%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$3,00020%
Covenant House$3,00030%
Raphael House of San Francisco Inc$2,75080%
Wood River Land Trust Co$2,50010%
Sonoma Mountain Zen Center$2,5005n/a
The Affordability Project$2,50010%
San Francisco CASA$2,50010%
Center for Civilians in Conflict$2,50010%
Vail Mountain Rescue Group Inc$2,5001n/a
Pen America Los Angeles Fka Pen Center USA West$2,50026%
Astronomical Society of the Pacific$2,50050%
California Association for Research in Astronomy$2,50050%
Redford Center Inc$2,50010%
CatchLight$2,50010%
University of Western Ontario Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Volunteers in Medicine - San Francisco$2,50010%
Kipp Foundation$2,50010%
Tawonga Jewish Community Corporation$2,50010%
Urban Ed Academy$2,50010%
Walking Mountains$2,5001n/a
Bolinas Community Inc$2,50011%
San Francisco Achievers$2,50010%
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation$2,50010%
Human Needs Project Inc$2,50010%
Hairtostay$2,50010%
Spirit Awakening Foundation$2,25020%
The Breakthrough Collaborative$2,00040%
The Foundation of the City College of San Francisco$2,00040%
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Inc$2,00010%
Glen Ellen Firefighters Association Inc$2,00043%
The Midnight Mission$2,00010%
Presidio Graduate School$2,00030%
Debartolo Family Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Scholarmatch Inc$2,00020%
Sawtooth Botanical Garden$2,00010%
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco$2,00020%
Project Open Hand$2,00080%
Clean Water Action$2,00010%
Buxton Schoolinc$2,00030%
Value Culture$1,7501n/a
Mewater Foundation Incorporated$1,50020%
The Milo Foundation$1,50020%
Alight$1,50010%
Women's Community Clinic$1,50030%
National Alopecia Areata Foundation$1,50060%
Children of Shelters$1,25030%
Friends of SCRAP Inc$1,20010%
Common Sense Media$1,03510%
Partners Asia$1,00010%
The City Eats Inc$1,00014%
Project 613 Nfp$1,00010%
Proctor Academy$1,00010%
By the Bay Health$1,00010%
Sun Valley Wellness Institute$1,00010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$1,00010%
Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership$1,00010%
Pen American Center Inc$1,00010%
Pforsich Pfall Pfundraising Pfestivities$1,0001n/a
Graduate Theological Union$1,00020%
Mindful Schools$1,00010%
The Sarcoma-Oma Foundation Inc$1,00011%
Community Initiatives$1,00010%
Oasis Legal Services$1,00010%
American Association for the Advancement of Science$1,00010%
Glide Foundation$1,0002n/a
Sacred Heart Schools Atherton$1,0001n/a
St Anthony Foundation$1,0001n/a
USA for Unfpa Inc$1,00010%
Marin Montessori School$1,00010%
St Marys Episcopal Day School Inc$1,0001n/a
Bayorg$85310%
Jewish Family Service of Orange County Inc$75020%
San Francisco Parks Alliance$75030%
The Representation Project$75010%
Queens Jewish Community Council$70010%
Lift to Rise$50010%
New York Board of Rabbis Inc$5001n/a
Global Health Partners Inc$50010%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$50010%
Winnarainbow Inc Dba Camp Winnarainbow$50020%
Larkin Street Youth Services$50010%
North and South of Market Adult Day Health Corporation$50020%
The Music Conservatory of Westchester Inc$50010%
Video Veracity Inc$5001n/a
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant$50010%
St Vincent de Paul Society District Council of Marin County$50010%
Mission High Foundation$50011%
University of South Florida Foundation Inc$50010%
National Center for Science Education$50010%
Sonoma Mountain Preservation Group Inc$4503n/a
Harmony Baptist Church Inc$3501n/a
Pesticide Action Network North America$2501n/a
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco$25010%
That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 119 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Swig Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Womens Media Center Inc: $325,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetSan Francisco Jazz Organization: $244,985 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMunicipal Art Society of New York: $205,200 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetChronicle Season of Sharing Fund: $169,180 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCalifornia College of the Arts: $163,060 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $134,340 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $127,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSun Valley Writers' Conference Inc: $127,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $121,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $109,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Diego: $104,275 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $96,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGreenlight Clinic: $88,350 over 7y, 20% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $86,388 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSun Valley Center for the Arts Inc: $84,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMarin Country Day School: $81,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWake Forest University: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTricycle Foundation: $75,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetGolden Gate National Parks Conservancy: $65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChina Institute in America Incorporated: $63,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPreservation Hall Foundation Inc: $61,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetThe Clear Fund: $59,338 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSolar Electric Light Fund: $55,350 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSan Francisco Art Institute: $49,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Pacific Medical Center Foundation: $49,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetReproductive Freedom for All Foundation: $45,937 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBallet Idaho Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Bay Area: $43,175 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Sage School Inc: $42,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNpr Foundation: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRoad Recovery Foundation Inc: $37,500 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetTipping Point Community: $37,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute for the Advancement of Education in Jaffa Inc: $36,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDjerassi Resident Artists Program: $35,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBlaine County Hunger Coalition Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $34,427 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $34,275 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Academy: $34,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Primary & Middle School: $33,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHeadlands Center for the Arts: $31,775 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUrban School of San Francisco: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDia Center for the Arts Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStanford Jazz Workshop: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGreenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space: $29,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetScleroderma Research Foundation: $28,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $28,600 over 2y, 0.0% 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 200.

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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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA81.3× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to Swig Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Swig 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 Swig Foundation

How much does Swig Foundation give?
Swig Foundation reported 127 grants totaling $750,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 99 and 196 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Swig Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Education (19%), Health (10%).
Who are Swig Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Womens Media Center Inc ($325k), San Francisco Jazz Organization ($245k), Municipal Art Society of New York ($205k).
Does Swig Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Swig Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Swig Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
Where is Swig Foundation based?
Swig Foundation is based in CA.

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 409 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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