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Swope Memorial Loan Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$41k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$448k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Swope Memorial Loan Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving6$41k67%
FY20244$12k0%
FY20233$27k67%
FY20225$15k40%
FY20216$20k50%
FY202012$31k50%
FY201912$28k58%
FY20188$17k38%
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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 2025.

Education$200kYouth Development$7kArts & Culture$2k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
MA
IA
IN
CO
MO
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Louis University$28,00050%
Michigan State University$12,0002n/a
Rollins College$10,00010%
University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis$9,00040%
Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State$7,0001n/a
Jackson State University$6,0002n/a
Webster University$5,00020%
Lindenwood Education System$4,50020%
Trustees of Boston College$3,50010%
Central Methodist University$3,50020%
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All grantees of Swope Memorial Loan Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Louis University$28,00050%
Michigan State University$12,0002n/a
Rollins College$10,00010%
University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis$9,00040%
Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State$7,0001n/a
Jackson State University$6,0002n/a
Webster University$5,00020%
Lindenwood Education System$4,50020%
Trustees of Boston College$3,50010%
Central Methodist University$3,50020%
Hannibal LaGrange University$3,00010%
Culver-Stockton College$3,00010%
Southern Illinois University Alumni Association$3,00010%
Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc$2,00010%
Xavier University of Louisiana$2,00010%
American University$2,00010%
Coe College$1,00010%
Washington University$1,00010%

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($104k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Swope Memorial Loan Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Louis University: $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRollins College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWebster University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLindenwood Education System: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Methodist University: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHannibal LaGrange University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCulver-Stockton College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Illinois University Alumni Association: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPalm Beach Atlantic University Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXavier University of Louisiana: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoe College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington University: $1,000 over 1y, 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 15.

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.

William Edgar Charitable FoundationMN15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William Edgar Charitable Foundation · Tammy Stratman Brown Charities · Tulsa Community Foundation · George & Hazel Barber Scholarship Trust · Lord Educational Fund · Missouri Colleges Fund Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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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About Swope Memorial Loan Fund

How much does Swope Memorial Loan Fund give?
Swope Memorial Loan Fund reported 6 grants totaling $40,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Swope Memorial Loan Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (96%), Youth Development (3%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are Swope Memorial Loan Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Louis University ($28k), Michigan State University ($12k), Rollins College ($10k).
Does Swope Memorial Loan Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Swope Memorial Loan Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Swope Memorial Loan Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include William Edgar Charitable Foundation, Tammy Stratman Brown Charities, Tulsa Community Foundation.
Where is Swope Memorial Loan Fund based?
Swope Memorial Loan Fund is based in WI.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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