Tennessee · Private foundation
The Swanson Family 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.
- $88k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $810k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Swanson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $88k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $73k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $65k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $71k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $59k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $57k | 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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellas House | $115,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Tucker's House | $60,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Cradle Society | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc | $36,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nashville Symphony Association | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Anti-Cruelty Society | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Graceworks Ministries Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Barrington Childrens Charities | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Open Heart Magic | $2,750 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellas House | $115,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Tucker's House | $60,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Cradle Society | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc | $36,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nashville Symphony Association | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Anti-Cruelty Society | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Graceworks Ministries Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Barrington Childrens Charities | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Open Heart Magic | $2,750 | 1 | 1% |
| Alliance for the Great Lakes | $2,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Honor Flight of Southern Colorado | $2,500 | 1 | 4% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($88k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Swanson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Swanson Family Foundation
- How much does The Swanson Family Foundation give?
- The Swanson Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $87,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Swanson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Housing & Shelter (23%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Swanson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ellas House ($115k), Tucker's House ($60k), The Cradle Society ($50k).
- Does The Swanson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Swanson Family 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 Swanson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Swanson Family Foundation based?
- The Swanson Family Foundation is based in TN.
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