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The Suwinski Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $900k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $75,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CHARLESTON | $60,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $50,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $40,000 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA | $40,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD - ITHACA HEALTH CENTER | $40,000 |
| SC COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE | $40,000 |
| FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY | $40,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| WORLD SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS | $35,000 |
| CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $35,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US | $30,000 |
| BEYOND TOXICS | $30,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
76 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +40%
EARTHJUSTICE6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +16%- FFFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- TTTHE TRAUMA HEALING PROJECT INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -34%
- CLCivil Liberties Defense Centergraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +26%
- SISPONSORS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +26%
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.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.
Providing legal aid to the environment by providing legal services to conservation organizations, community groups, native american tribes, and individuals working to protect and sustain the pacific northwest's natural legacy.
To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Society and the most unlike its peers is Plastic Oceans International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
69 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. 69 of the 83 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ENGENDERHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITE BIRD CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORTED SHELTERS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Beyond Toxics ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds PLASTIC OCEANS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds CASCADIA WILDLANDS ↗
- Who funds GREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds PREDATOR DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds PET HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS CENTER OF TC INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of Lane County · The Collins Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Chambers Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · First Fruits Foundation · Lane Community Health Council · Taubert Memorial Foundation · Food for Lane County · Wilburforce Foundation · The Woodard Family 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 Suwinski Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Womenspace — 62% of income from government
- White Bird Clinic — 29% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- Beyond Toxics — 13% of income from government
- Sponsors Inc — 8% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Squareone Villages — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — 2% of income from government
- Willamette Farm and Food Coalition — 1% of income from government
- Greenhill Humane Society Spca — 1% of income from government
- Community Supported Shelters — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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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