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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 FY2024still arriving
127
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 127 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k101 grants · $260k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $490k
$2,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$23,000
SUN VALLEY WRITER'S CONFERENCE INC$23,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE$20,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$20,000
CHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC$20,000
STANFORD JAZZ WORKSHOP$20,000
KQED$19,265
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $173k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT INC: $3k → 8%FRIENDS OF UNFPA: $1k → 10%YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY: $5k → 12%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $2k → 14%THE SARCOMA-OMA FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 8%OUR TOWN ST HELENA: $2k → 9%OUR TOWN ST HELENA: $1k → 9%OUR TOWN ST HELENA: $1k → 9%OUR TOWN ST HELENA: $1k → 9%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $5k → 14%OUR TOWN ST HELENA: $1k → 9%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $3k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 10%MAKE-A-WISH GREATER BAY AREA: $13k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 10%MAKE-A-WISH GREATER BAY AREA: $10k → 10%LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER: $1k → 9%MAKE-A-WISH GREATER BAY AREA: $10k → 10%LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER: $1k → 9%LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER: $1k → 9%MAKE-A-WISH GREATER BAY AREA: $8k → 10%LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER: $1k → 9%LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER: $1k → 9%MAKE-A-WISH GREATER BAY AREA: $3k → 10%TIDES CENTER SHALOM BAYIT: $5k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5k → 10%BY THE BAY HEALTH: $1k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%TIDES CENTER SHALOM BAYIT: $10k → 10%TIDES CENTER SHALOM BAYIT: $6k → 10%TIDES CENTER SHALOM BAYIT: $5k → 10%TIDES CENTER SHALOM BAYIT: $5k → 10%TIDES CENTER SHALOM BAYIT: $5k → 10%TIDES CENTER SHALOM BAYIT: $5k → 10%TIDES CENTER SHALOM BAYIT: $5k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOMES OF: $6k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOMES OF: $1k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOMES OF: $1k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 10%THE CITY EATS INC: $1k → 10%ARTICLE3ORG: $5k → 10%ARTICLE3ORG: $2k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Swig Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 53%.

Swig Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 244 repeat orgs$667k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

244
130

Total granted

$5.9M
$576k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+29%

Still filing today

70%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +5%
  • CS
    CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $169k · revenue +96%
  • CC
    CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JAFFA
    one grant, 2021 · $36k
  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $36k · revenue -27%
  • TC
    THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
San Francisco Friends School

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…

Education
5
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
7
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
8
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
9
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
11
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
12
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

274 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
61
Early backer (in before they grew)
271/274
Grantees still filing
188/274
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TREASURE VALLEY INSTITUTE: $200,000 · OtherTREASURE VALLEY INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $128,378 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $122,500 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $109,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $104,275 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $93,575 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY: $102,052 · Other+107 more: $1,900,709 · Other+107 moreTHE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC: $325,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER I…SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $244,985 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANI…Municipal Art Society of New York: $205,200 · Arts & CultureMunicipal Art Society of …KQED INC: $134,340 · Arts & CultureKQED INCSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $121,200 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF M…TRICYCLE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC: $61,000 · Arts & Culture+21 more: $352,403 · Arts & Culture+21 moreCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $163,060 · EducationCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $162,200 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $135,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $127,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR…SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $127,000 · EducationSUN VALLEY WRITERS' C…MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $81,000 · EducationMARIN COUNTRY DAY SCH…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSIT…+22 more: $391,438 · Education+22 moreGREENLIGHT CLINIC: $88,350 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $49,000 · HealthRoad Recovery Foundation Inc: $37,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $34,427 · HealthScleroderma Research Foundation: $28,750 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $28,000 · HealthVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $26,478 · HealthThe Against Malaria Foundation: $17,000 · Health+3 more: $23,750 · HealthHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $96,000 · InternationalCHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INCORPORATED: $63,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $40,000 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $36,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $28,600 · InternationalVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $25,000 · InternationalPOLARIS PROJECT: $15,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,000 · International+2 more: $12,500 · InternationalEarth Island Institute Inc: $86,388 · EnvironmentGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $65,000 · EnvironmentSOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND: $55,350 · EnvironmentGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE: $29,000 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAND TRUST: $23,500 · EnvironmentBetty Ford Alpine Gardens: $21,477 · EnvironmentCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $169,180 · Food & NutritionBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $35,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,760,989Arts & Culture$1,519,128Education$1,267,198Health$333,255International$328,100Environment$280,715Food & Nutrition$204,180

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $162,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $135,000 over 7y, 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 budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $102,052 over 7y, 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 budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetTIDES CENTER: $46,976 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 budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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 Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Lisa & Douglas Goldma…Koret FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…McNabb FoundationBothin FoundationJohn Pritzker Family …The James Irvine Foun…The Springcreek Found…Spur Community Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Swig Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Swig Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
63report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home