North Carolina · Public charity
Swim Across America Inc
Saa hosts charity swims with the proceeds funding cancer research, prevention and treatment. Saa's cause is supported by olympians and thousands of participants and volunteers.
- $8.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $755,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 21
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Swim Across America Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $8.9M | 3% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $7.6M | 3% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $7.0M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $6.2M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $5.5M | 3% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $2.4M | 7% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $6.0M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $5.6M | 12% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $4,668,797 | 9 | n/a |
| Cancer Support Team Inc | $4,307,004 | 9 | 39% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $4,150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy Inc | $3,555,000 | 9 | 22% |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | $3,510,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Johns Hopkins Hospital | $3,324,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc | $3,150,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Nantucket Cottage Hospital | $2,930,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Utmd Anderson | $2,423,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Rush University Medical Center | $1,935,000 | 9 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Swim Across America Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: American Cancer Society Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Swim Across America Inc
- How much does Swim Across America Inc give?
- Swim Across America Inc reported 33 grants totaling $8,853,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Swim Across America Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%).
- Who are Swim Across America Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ($4.7M), Cancer Support Team Inc ($4.3M), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($4.2M).
- Does Swim Across America Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Swim Across America Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Cancer Society Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
- Where is Swim Across America Inc based?
- Swim Across America Inc is based in NC.
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