· Private foundation
The Marilyn and Harry Swimmer Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Foundation of Charlotte | $10,000 |
| Temple Israel | $7,270 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Jewish Family Services | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Face to Face Foundation | $1,000 |
| Hebrew Cemetary Association | $1,000 |
| Paula Takacs Foundation | $1,000 |
| Dahlia Grove Homeless Shelter | $1,000 |
| Drumstrong | $1,000 |
| Levine Jewish Community Center | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +122% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TITEMPLE ISRAEL6× · 2017–2024 · $39k
- LJLEVINE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $22k
- MMMISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS INC3× · 2017–2020 · $21k · revenue -26%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLOone grant, 2018 · $7k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GRATER CHARLOTone grant, 2017 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Connecting humans with horses to transform lives and bring hope.
Provides therapeutic sessions utilizing horses our program offers therapeutic riding and experiential therapy and learning via Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and other activities, providing the opportunity to improve mental health and…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
The Shepherds Center of Charlotte enriches the lives of older adults by providing a network of support to increase social connection, expand access to critical resources, and combat the negative effects of isolation.
Established in 1986, Saratoga Therapeutic Equestrian Program (STEP) is a charitable not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, registered in New York State and located at New Forest Equestrian Centre in Glenville, NY. STEP is dedicated to…
Therapy for Handicap
Equine sanctuary. accepts elder equines in need of rehabilitation and/or retirement.
Provides humane retirement opportunities for Thoroughbred horses.
Providing horse based therapy for handicapped and developmentally disabled adults and children.
To improve the well-being of people with special needs through a therapeutic equine experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Hebrew Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dahlia Grove. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 MISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds TreesCharlotte ↗
- Who funds The Foundation of Shalom Park ↗
- Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
- Who funds Dahlia Grove ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HEBREW ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds EQUUVATION INC ↗
- Who funds The American Saddlebred Legacy Foundatio ↗
- Who funds Echo Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Barbara & Jerry Levin Charitable Foundation · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 The Marilyn and Harry Swimmer Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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