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The Swf Immersion 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.

$280k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 18
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$5.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Swf Immersion Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsSocial SciencePublic BenefitInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$240k0%
FY202318$250k33%
FY202215$225k33%
FY202116$230k44%
FY202012$253k42%
FY201912$145kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$797kCommunity Improvement$160kArts & Culture$140kCivil Rights$110kFood & Nutrition$100kInternational$100kPublic Benefit$50kYouth Development$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
NV
PA
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NM
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($245k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Swf Immersion Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWashiw Zulshish Goom Tahn Nu: $130,000 over 3y, 66% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLand is Life Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSierra Watch: $85,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetGrassroots International Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGroundswell International Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTahoe Institute for Natural Science: $55,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetGreenpeace Fund Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProtect Our Winters: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetInstitute for Local Self Reliance: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMovement Strategy Center: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCollective Heritage Institute: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTahoe Food Hub: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHead Count Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPublic Employees for Environmental Responsibility Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPublic Citizen Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnkitawa: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInstitute for Policy Studies: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTruckee River Watershed Council: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEarthrights International Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHip Hop Caucus Education Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCalCef Innovations: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $13,357 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond Benign Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMovement Generation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMeridian Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Gwydion Fund for Wild Nature · Wallace Global Fund II · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Patagoniaorg · Seattle Foundation · Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · California Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Swf Immersion Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Swf Immersion Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Swf Immersion Foundation

How much does The Swf Immersion Foundation give?
The Swf Immersion Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $280,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Swf Immersion Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (50%), Community Improvement (10%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are The Swf Immersion Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Washiw Zulshish Goom Tahn Nu ($130k), Amazon Watch Inc ($90k), Land is Life Inc ($90k).
Does The Swf Immersion Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Swf Immersion 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 Swf Immersion Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Rsf Social Finance Inc.
Where is The Swf Immersion Foundation based?
The Swf Immersion Foundation is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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