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The Gerald and Susan Schwalbach Family Foundation at a glance

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The Gerald and Susan Schwalbach Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$0
Granted FY2020
5
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$20k
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, FY2018 to 2020.

Education$250kHealth$60kInternational$60kReligion$55kCivil Rights$30kEnvironment$20kHousing & Shelter$20kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2020 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST CECILIA CHURCH$20,000
LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL$20,000
LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL$15,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND$5,000
PROJECT LEMONADE INC$5,000
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 (FY18–20, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 11%LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 11%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $5k → 12%LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 11%LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 11%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
WA
ND
MN
NY
OR
OH
VA
MD
DC
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$380k · 8 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
20

Total granted

$380k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+59%

Still filing today

63%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsCivil RightsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +43%
  • LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +49%
  • YA
    Young America's Foundation
    2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • CH
    CATHOLIC HOUSING SERVICES OF EASTERN WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -77%
  • MS
    MAKE SOME NOISE CURE KIDS CANCER NORTHWEST
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • MF
    MARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +32%
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
Pro-Choice Washington Foundation

The Pro-Choice Washington Foundation is our 501c3 focused on issue research, leadership development, and community and decision-maker education.

Civil Rights
2
Options Pregnancy Resource Centers Inc

Empowering life-affirming decisions

Health
3
Providence Portland Medical Foundation

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
4
Pro-Choice Washington

To protect and promote every persons right to access the full range of reproductive healthcare choices in Washington State, including safe and legal abortion, through education, advocacy, lobbying and coalition-building

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5
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment
6
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
7
Catholics for Choice

Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…

Civil Rights
8
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
9
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
10
Catholic Charities Foundation 61885016

Catholic charities foundation is organized for the principal purpose of stimulating gifts from private sources and grants from the state or federal government for the sole and exclusive benefit of catholic charities.

Human Services
11
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
12
Pro-Life Wisconsin Inc

Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Services of Western Washington; the most unlike its peers is Lead-Up International. 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

23 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. 23 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
21/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherOREGON EPISCOPAL SCHOOLST CECILIA CHURCH: $45,000 · OtherST CECILIA CHURCHMAKE SOME NOISE CURE KIDS CANCER NORTHWEST: $20,000 · OtherMAKE SOME NOISE CURE KIDS CANCER NORTHWESTST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherYoung America's Foundation: $15,000 · Other+11 more: $75,000 · Other+11 moreLEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 · Human ServicesLEAD-UP INTERNA…PROJECT LEMONADE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEMONAD…CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $5,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC COMMUN…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $5,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARIT…CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationMONTESSORI COUNTRY SCHOOLS: $10,000 · Education40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $5,000 · EducationCATHOLIC HOUSING SERVICES OF EASTERN WASHINGTON: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsCOPPER CANNON CORPORATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthPREGNANCY RESOURCE SERVICES: $10,000 · HealthMARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND: $10,000 · Civil RightsSusan B Anthony List Education Fund: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$370,000Human Services$75,000Education$35,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Health$20,000Civil Rights$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC HOUSING SERVICES OF EASTERN WASHINGTON: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOpal Creek Ancient Forest Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND PARKS & TRAILS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPREGNANCY RESOURCE SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOPPER CANNON CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOKOTA HORSE CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Education Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAMASCUS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Cedar Spray Found…Seattle FoundationThe Oregon Community …Vanguard Charitable E…Baird Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
The Cedar Spray FoundationDE28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cedar Spray Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 The Gerald and Susan Schwalbach Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gerald and Susan Schwalbach Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Project Lemonade Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Gerald and Susan Schwalbach Family 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 30 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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