· Private foundation
The Swanton 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTH VILLAGE | $29,755 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,050 |
| HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC | $1,485 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON | $1,340 |
| KIDS CENTER | $1,300 |
| SEVEN PEAKS SCHOOL | $950 |
| OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $517 |
| SHEPARDS HOUSE | $500 |
| CASCADE COLLEGE | $425 |
| BRA SOCIETY | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- HVHEATH VILLAGE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $111k · revenue +27%
KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +70%
J BAR J YOUTH SERVICES INC5× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- KAKAREN ANN QUINLAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +9%
- BEBEND EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $9k
- SCSPARROW CLUBS USAone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -8%
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.
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
The mission of the University of Western States is to advance the science and art of integrated health care through excellence in education and patient care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Freedom Center and the most unlike its peers is Roslyn Downtown Association. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 69 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 HEATH VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds J BAR J YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KAREN ANN QUINLAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds HEART OF OREGON CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds SPARROW CLUBS USA ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDES ↗
- Who funds GHOST TREE INVITATIONAL LTD ↗
- Who funds BEND GIVES BACK INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Roslyn Downtown Association ↗
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 Roundhouse Foundation · United Way of Deschutes County · The Anjulicia Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · St Charles Health System Inc · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Bend Foundation · Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation · The Crevier 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 Swanton 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.
- J Bar J Youth Services Inc — 71% of income from government
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
- Family Resource Center of Central Oregon — 22% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Casa of Central Oregon — 2% of income from government
- High Desert Chamber Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Heath Village 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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