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The Swigert Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $469k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $252k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL | $252,000 |
| NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES | $50,000 |
| COLUMBIA LAND TRUST | $40,000 |
| DAMASCUS FIBER ARTS SCHOOL | $36,400 |
| FRIENDS OF HOPEWELL HOUSE | $30,000 |
| OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SUNSHINE DIVISION INC | $20,000 |
| CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF BLESSED PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI | $20,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE COLUMBIA PACIFIC | $15,000 |
| CLARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $14,400 |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCES FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $12,000 |
| ALANO CLUB OF PORTLAND | $12,000 |
| WORLD FORESTRY CENTER | $12,000 |
| HOYT ARBORETUM FRIENDS FOUNDATION | $10,600 |
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 (FY20–25, $514k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 25 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $271k 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
CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $752k · revenue +2%- HSHUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE2× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +27%
- CCCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK4× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +69%
Funded once
BODYVOX INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +28%
PROJECT LEDOgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +439%- HHHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +127%
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.
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wheel to Walk Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
149 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. 149 of the 219 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BODYVOX INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEDO ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM TEMPLE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Chesterton Academy of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH BIBLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds FISH OF VANCOUVER ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES ↗
- Who funds DAMASCUS FIBER ARTS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Hopewell House dba Hopewell House ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds STORE TO DOOR ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN GLEANERS ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Gleaners of Clackamas County Inc ↗
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: Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Autzen Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · Braemar Charitable Trust
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 Swigert 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sunrise Enterprises of Roseburginc — 99% of income from government
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- Community Action Organization — 67% of income from government
- Oregon Trio Association — 66% of income from government
- Call to Safety — 61% of income from government
- LArche Portland — 59% of income from government
- Kindred Partners — 42% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest — 38% of income from government
- Portland YouthBuilders — 35% of income from government
- Clackamas Women's Services — 33% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
- Friends of Zenger Farm — 28% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Parrott Creek Child and Family Services — 20% of income from government
- Trailkeepers of Oregon — 19% of income from government
- Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers — 18% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
- Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation — 16% of income from government
- Ywca of Greater Portland — 15% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Neighborhood Health Center — 9% of income from government
- Lifeworks Nw — 8% of income from government
- Oregon East Symphony — 8% of income from government
- Camp 45 Contemporary Converge 45 — 8% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine — 7% of income from government
- Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
- Open School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Lincoln City Cultural Center — 4% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon — 3% of income from government
- Arc Portland Metro Arc Portland Metro — 3% of income from government
- Bodyvox Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chamber Music Northwest — 3% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- Trillium Family Services — 2% of income from government
- Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — 2% of income from government
- Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Portland Opera Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Capital Futbol Club — 2% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Portland Baroque Orchestra — 1% of income from government
- Black United Fund of Oregon — 1% of income from government
- Metropolitan Youth Symphony — 1% of income from government
- Cracked Pots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Portland Youth Philharmonic Association — 0% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
- The Willamette Heritage Center — 0% of income from government
- Casa of Clackamas County — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- World Forestry Center — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Good News Community Health Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School — 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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