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The Holly and Bradford Swett Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

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The Holly and Bradford Swett Charitable Foundation Trust

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.

$315k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$103kRecreation & Sports$86kEnvironment$85kInternational$68kAnimals$37kPhilanthropy$34kArts & Culture$22kHealth$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $239k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$13,652
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION$58,777
CHARITY WATER$47,782
NY HARBOR FOUNDATION$34,130
AMERICARES$27,304
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS$27,304
HAITIAN EDUCATION & LEADERSHIP PROGRAM$27,304
BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC$20,478
PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC$13,652
JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST$13,652
DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS$13,652
FOOD BANK$13,652
JACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$6,826
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK$5,461
SEARCH AND CARE INC$2,730
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE$2,730
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY WATER: $48k → 17%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA INC: $14k → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $14k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $14k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE INC: $10k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE INC: $3k → 17%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

NY
WY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
DC
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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$122k · 3 repeat orgs$346k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$122k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentInternationalAnimalsArts & CultureScience & TechOther
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

  • CI
    CONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $81k · revenue +322%
  • PB
    PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +23%
  • SA
    SEARCH AND CARE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • JA
    JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +39%
  • SW
    STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +18%
  • GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +96%
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
7
Connectocean Conservation and Outreach Inc

Connectocean conservation and outreach is dedicated to fostering ocean stewardship and conserving aquatic ecosystems through community engagement, education, and collaborative conservation efforts. our mission is to connect communities to…

Human Services
8
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
9
Dazzle Africa

Dazzle africa's mission is to partner with local organizations to provide programs in conservation, education and community development. the organization aims to ensure that future generations are self-sufficient and iconic african…

Animals
10
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
11
International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals
12
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

18 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. 18 of the 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION: $80,515 · EnvironmentCONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUN…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $14,492 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND IN…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $14,492 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $13,652 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUSTCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $47,782 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INCPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $28,144 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INCGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $14,492 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INCLCH Health and Community Services: $14,492 · Human ServicesLCH Health and Community Ser…SEARCH AND CARE INC: $12,874 · Human ServicesSEARCH AND CARE INCAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $27,304 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUND…HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: $27,304 · InternationalHAITIAN EDUCATIO…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,652 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…NY HARBOR FOUNDATION: $34,130 · OtherNY HARBOR FOUN…FOOD BANK: $13,652 · OtherFOOD BANKGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK: $5,461 · OtherGRAND TETON NA…SMILE TRAIN INC: $4,348 · OtherSMILE TRAIN IN…NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE: $2,730 · OtherTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $27,304 · AnimalsJACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $6,826 · AnimalsJAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER: $21,738 · Arts & CultureSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $21,738 · Science & TechBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $20,478 · Education
Environment$123,151Human Services$117,784International$68,260Other$60,321Animals$34,130Arts & Culture$21,738Science & Tech$21,738Education$20,478

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 budgetCONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION: $80,515 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $47,782 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $28,144 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $27,304 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $27,304 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: $27,304 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER: $21,738 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $21,738 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $20,478 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $14,492 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLCH Health and Community Services: $14,492 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $14,492 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $14,492 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $13,652 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,652 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEARCH AND CARE INC: $12,874 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $6,826 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $4,348 over 1y, 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Holly and Bradford Swett Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Holly and Bradford Swett Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 22 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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