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Switzer Foundation co Mr Frank Dougan President

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.

$268k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of Switzer Foundation co Mr Frank Dougan President’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $264k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Manhattan College$20,000
Rider University$19,000
Wagner College of Nursing$18,000
Felician College Of Nursing$17,000
Adelphi School of Nursing$10,000
Dominican College$10,000
Holy Name Hospital School of Nursin$10,000
St Christopher Ottlie Family of Services$10,000
Providence House$10,000
The College of New Jersey$10,000
Bloomfield College$10,000
Helene Fuld School of Nursing$10,000
College of St Elizabeths$10,000
Thomas Edison St College$10,000
Middlesex County College$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Providence House: $10k → 20%Providence House: $10k → 20%Providence House: $10k → 20%Providence House: $8k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 24 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
1

Total granted

$1.1M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+30%

Still filing today

29%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MU
    MOLLOY UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +15%
  • PU
    PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +27%
  • PH
    PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +30%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
4
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
5
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
Siena University

Siena university is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a franciscan and catholic institution. as a learning community, siena is committed to a student-centered education…

Education
10
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
11
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

12
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Molloy University and the most unlike its peers is Providence House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Wagner College of Nursing — $74,500 · OtherWagner College of NursingFelician College Of Nursing — $49,000 · OtherFelician College Of NursingTrinitas School of Nursing — $44,500 · OtherCocharan School of Nursing — $44,500 · OtherSeton Hall College of Nursing — $44,500 · OtherCollege of St Elizabeths — $44,500 · OtherPace University School of Nursing — $44,500 · OtherHoly Name Hospital School of Nursin — $44,500 · OtherDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $44,500 · OtherHelene Fuld School of Nursing — $44,500 · OtherHudson County Community College — $44,500 · OtherKingsborough Community College — $44,500 · OtherMiddlesex County College — $44,500 · OtherAdelphi School of Nursing — $44,500 · OtherSt Christopher Ottlie Family of Services — $44,214 · OtherBLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC — $44,000 · OtherThomas Edison St College — $44,000 · OtherThe College of New Jersey — $44,000 · Other+1 more — $12,000 · OtherManhattan University — $89,000 · EducationManhattan UniversityRIDER UNIVERSITY — $79,000 · EducationRIDER UNIVERSITYMOLLOY UNIVERSITY — $44,500 · EducationMOLLOY UNIVERSITYPHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY — $44,500 · EducationPHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITYNew York University — $12,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC — $38,000 · Human Services
Other$845,714Education$269,000Human Services$38,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetManhattan University — $89,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY — $79,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOLLOY UNIVERSITY — $44,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $44,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY — $44,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC — $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC — $38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Manhattan University
  • Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MOLLOY UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC
  • Who funds New York University

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Switzer Foundation co Mr Frank Dougan President 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Rider University1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Switzer Foundation co Mr Frank Dougan President?

Find your warmest path to Switzer Foundation co Mr Frank Dougan President 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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