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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 FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$797kCommunity Improvement$160kArts & Culture$140kCivil Rights$110kFood & Nutrition$100kInternational$100kPublic Benefit$50kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHIW ZULSHISH GOOM TAHN NU$100,000
GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC$40,000
GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC$20,000
SIERRA WATCH$20,000
LAND IS LIFE INC$20,000
AMAZON WATCH$15,000
TAHOE INSTUTUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE$15,000
TRUCKEE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL$10,000
THOUSAND CURRENTS CHARITABLE GRANT$10,000
BIONEERS$10,000
PROTECT OUR WINTERS$10,000
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE: $20k → 11%COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL DEFENSE FU: $15k → 9%THOUSAND CURRENTS CHARITABLE GRANT: $20k → 10%CALCEF INNOVATIONS: $20k → 10%SIERRA WATCH: $20k → 18%HEAD COUNT INC: $30k → 17%LAND IS LIFE INC: $20k → 20%GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 14%UNKITAWA: $20k → 9%TAHOE INSTUTUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE: $15k → 10%WASHIW ZULSHISH GOOM TAHN NU: $100k → 13%GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE: $20k → 11%THOUSAND CURRENTS CHARITABLE GRANT: $15k → 10%SIERRA WATCH: $20k → 18%LAND IS LIFE INC: $20k → 20%GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 14%GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC: $89k → 12%TAHOE INSTUTUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE: $15k → 10%WASHIW ZULSHISH GOOM TAHN NU: $20k → 13%AMAZON WATCH: $15k → 10%SIERRA WATCH: $20k → 18%LAND IS LIFE INC: $20k → 20%PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC: $40k → 12%TAHOE INSTUTUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE: $15k → 10%AMAZON WATCH: $15k → 10%SIERRA WATCH: $15k → 18%GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 14%GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC: $40k → 12%AMAZON WATCH: $15k → 10%GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC: $35k → 12%THOUSAND CURRENTS CHARITABLE GRANT: $15k → 10%GREENPEACE FUND: $30k → 14%GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC: $20k → 12%THOUSAND CURRENTS CHARITABLE GRANT: $15k → 10%HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND: $20k → 14%GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC: $15k → 12%AMAZON WATCH: $15k → 10%GREENPEACE FUND: $20k → 14%AMAZON WATCH: $15k → 10%NEW VENTURE FUND CHARITABLE GRANT: $70k → 14%NEW VENTURE FUND CHARITABLE GRANT: $20k → 14%WINDWARD FUND: $20k → 14%NEW VENTURE FUND CHARITABLE GRANT: $20k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $20k → 14%EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
NY
MA
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PA
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NM
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 18 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$1.1M
$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+51%

Still filing today

83%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementInternationalCivil RightsFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther

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

  • AW
    Amazon Watch Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +121%
  • LI
    Land is Life Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +44%
  • SW
    SIERRA WATCH
    5× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • HC
    HEAD COUNT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +149%
  • U
    UNKITAWA
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -28%
  • CI
    CalCef Innovationsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +51%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
2
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
3
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
4
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
5
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
10
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
11
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
12
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tahoe Food Hub. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyNative Hawaiian Community D…Land Conservation Organizat…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Government Accountability R…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%47%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,534

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $238,929 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUNDAmazon Watch Inc — $90,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Watch IncSIERRA WATCH — $85,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA WATCHTAHOE INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE — $55,000 · EnvironmentTAHOE INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCEGREENPEACE FUND INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INCPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $40,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WINTERSPUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC — $30,000 · Environment+7 more — $110,000 · Environment+7 moreNEW VENTURE FUND CHARITABLE GRANT — $110,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND CHARITABLE G…Land is Life Inc — $90,000 · OtherLand is Life IncTHOUSAND CURRENTS CHARITABLE GRANT — $85,000 · OtherTHOUSAND CURRENTS CHARITABLE …NESST — $20,000 · OtherHIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 · OtherPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · OtherCommunity Environmental Legal Defense Fund — $15,000 · Other+6 more — $63,357 · Other+6 moreWASHIW ZULSHISH GOOM TAHN NU — $130,000 · Community ImprovementWASHIW ZULSHIS…INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE — $40,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE FOR …MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $30,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRAT…GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $80,000 · InternationalGRASSROOTS I…Groundswell International Inc — $70,000 · InternationalGroundswell …INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES — $20,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FO…HEAD COUNT INC — $30,000 · Civil RightsEARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsTAHOE FOOD HUB — $30,000 · Food & NutritionCOLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE — $30,000 · Social Science
Environment$698,929Other$423,357Community Improvement$200,000International$170,000Civil Rights$50,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Social Science$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $238,929 over 6y, 0.2% of 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 budgetTAHOE FOOD HUB — $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCOLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNKITAWA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTruckee River Watershed Council — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCalCef Innovations — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $13,357 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeridian Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMovement Generation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond Benign Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…The Schmidt Family Fo…Rsf Social Finance IncGwydion Fund for Wild…Wallace Global Fund IIWellspring Philanthro…Tides FoundationImpactassetsincPatagoniaorgSeattle FoundationTahoe Truckee Communi…California Community …
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

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 Swf Immersion 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Beyond Benign Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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