Colorado · Private foundation
The Swaha 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.
- $467k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $110,436
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 39
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations The Swaha Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $464k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $851k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $532k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $696k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $536k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watershed School Inc | $326,436 | 4 | 2% |
| Girl Rising | $231,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Style Her Empowered Inc | $210,000 | 4 | 34% |
| Girlventures | $210,000 | 4 | 10% |
| The Friendship Bridge | $135,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ndn Collective Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Conservation Colorado Education Fund | $115,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Thorne Ecological Institute | $100,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Solutions Project Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| 4point0 Schools | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($729k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Swaha Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Patagoniaorg · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Brady Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Catto Shaw Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Arches Foundation
How this is measured
About The Swaha Foundation
- How much does The Swaha Foundation give?
- The Swaha Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $466,816 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Swaha Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (20%), Education (17%), Environment (14%).
- Who are The Swaha Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Watershed School Inc ($326k), Girl Rising ($231k), Style Her Empowered Inc ($210k).
- Does The Swaha Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Swaha Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Swaha Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Aspen Community Foundation.
- Where is The Swaha Foundation based?
- The Swaha Foundation is based in CO.
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