Skip to content
The James and Ann Swinehart Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The James and Ann Swinehart Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$258k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$178k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.4MHealth$326kEnvironment$60kInternational$7kHuman Services$200Religion$100Public Benefit$50Housing & Shelter$50Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $256k
$78,126
Median grant
3
States reached
$496k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$177,585
THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH$78,126
CLINIC BY THE BAY$2,100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $25 → 13%NOVA UKRAINE: $7k → 8%MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $25 → 8%BAY AREA RESCUE: $25 → 9%ST AGNES: $100 → 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $119k → 6%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $300 → 17%UNITED STATES DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION: $50 → 16%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $30 → 22%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $100 → 19%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $178k → 5%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $848k → 17%LAW ENFORCEMENT LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $28 → 6%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50 → 7%ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $500 → 29%EASTER SEALS: $15 → 9%CLINIC BY THE BAY: $2k → 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $78k → 6%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $35 → 17%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $20 → 22%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 5%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $240k → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30 → 7%CLINIC BY THE BAY: $1k → 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $25k → 6%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 5%CLINIC BY THE BAY: $300 → 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $25k → 6%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 5%CENTER FOR ETHICAL & SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS: $30k → 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $25k → 6%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 5%CENTER FOR ETHICAL & SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS: $30k → 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $25k → 6%EARTH JUSTICE: $25 → 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $25k → 6%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
OR
SD
IN
OH
CA
NE
KY
VA
KS
AR
GA
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 7 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$1.8M
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+33%

Still filing today

43%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentCivil RightsHealthInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +34%
  • OW
    OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2025 · $328k · revenue +44%
  • TL
    THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH
    7× · 2017–2025 · $322k

Funded once

  • NU
    NOVA UKRAINE
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -45%
  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +78%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $200
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
2
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
3
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

—
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

—
9
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

American college of occupational and environmental medicine (acoem) provides leadership to promote optimal health and safety of workers, workplaces and environments by: educating health professionals and the public; stimulating research;…

Arts & Culture
10
American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…

—
11
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
12
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Deputy Sheriffs' Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. 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

13 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. 13 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,088,700 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $327,585 · EducationOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY+2 more: $550 · EducationTHE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $322,415 · OtherTHE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATI…CENTER FOR ETHICAL & SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS: $60,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ETHICAL & SU…+10 more: $903 · OtherNOVA UKRAINE: $6,900 · InternationalVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO: $3,525 · HealthLeadership Institute: $50 · Public BenefitCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $50 · Civil RightsNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $25 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $25 · EnvironmentTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $25 · Animals
Education$1,416,835Other$383,318International$6,900Health$3,525Public Benefit$50Civil Rights$50Environment$50Animals$25

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,088,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $327,585 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $6,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO: $3,525 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES DEPUTY SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaw Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $28 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $25 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The James and Ann Swinehart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James and Ann Swinehart Foundation. 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The James and Ann Swinehart Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The James and Ann Swinehart 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 23 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on James and Ann Swinehart’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home