· Private foundation
The Swank 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 $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLAYERS BY THE SEA THEATRE | $10,000 |
| THE GIVING CLOSET PROJECT INC | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| HAPPILY EVER AFTER FARM (HEAF) | $10,000 |
| FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK AND RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| HEALING HEARTS ANIMAL RESCUE AND REFUGE | $6,000 |
| HALO ANIMAL RESCUE | $3,500 |
| CAMP KESEM CHAPTER AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of your 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of The Swank Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- OBOUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $287k · revenue +40% · 45% of their budget
Foothills Food Bank7× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +119%- HHHealing Hearts Animal Rescue and Refuge7× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- DEDreamcatcher Equine Therapygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +25%
- SSPECTRUM360graduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +63%
- HEHAPPILY EVER AFTER FARMSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +258%
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.
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
Animal rescue and temporary housing for dogs and cats while waiting for adoptions. The shelter provides rescue services, temporary housing, medical care, transporting and adoption services.
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
Rescue unwanted dogs and cats from high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. Provide veterinary care shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.
Rescue animals
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arizona Animal Welfare League and the most unlike its peers is All Beaches Experimental Theatre Inc. 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 17 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 OUTER BANKS WILDLIFE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Healing Hearts Animal Rescue and Refuge ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING CLOSET PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC ↗
- Who funds Dreamcatcher Equine Therapy ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM360 ↗
- Who funds HAPPILY EVER AFTER FARMS ↗
- Who funds THE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ALL BEACHES EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM 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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Swank 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.