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The Swf Immersion Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL$10,000
THOUSAND CURRENTS CHARITABLE GRANT$10,000
TRUCKEE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL$10,000
PROTECT OUR WINTERS$10,000
BIONEERS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%AMAZON WATCH: $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%NEW VENTURE FUND CHARITABLE GRANT: $20k → 14%WINDWARD FUND: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
NV
PA
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NM
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+67%

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
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.

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%
  • PC
    PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +68%
  • U
    UNKITAWA
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -28%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherHIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND: $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 RightsCOLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Social ScienceTAHOE FOOD HUB: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition
Environment$698,929Other$423,357Community Improvement$200,000International$170,000Civil Rights$50,000Social Science$30,000Food & Nutrition$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 budgetWINDWARD FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Swf Immersion Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Swf Immersion Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

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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