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The Swigert-Warren Foundation
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $524k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $440k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL | $275,000 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| LITERARY ARTS INC | $140,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE | $100,000 |
| SCHWARZMAN ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $45,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART | $45,000 |
| ALANO CLUB OF PORTLAND | $25,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $25,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| DEPONTE CREATIVITY PARTNERS | $20,000 |
| OREGON BALLET THEATRE | $20,000 |
| OPTHALMIC EDGE INC | $20,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES - CHRISTIECARE OF OR | $20,000 |
| GLOBAL ROOTS | $15,000 |
| TISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER OF NY | $15,000 |
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, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 10 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM8× · 2018–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +35%
CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL6× · 2018–2025 · $690k · revenue +68%
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $546k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ELK ROCK GARDENone grant, 2023 · $100k
BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INCone grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue -11%- ASAUDUBON SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $35k
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
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…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
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…
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
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 our members and promote the growth and quality of oregon's technology industry by providing opportunities for business and professional development through networking and informational programs.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center and the most unlike its peers is Home Share Oregon. 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 37 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) — 1% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 131 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 PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Columbia Gorge ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds World Spark ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds PANDRILLUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM TEMPLE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Home Share Oregon ↗
- Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ROOTS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALANO CLUB OF PORTLAND OREGON ↗
- Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
- Who funds THE CRAIG SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Swigert Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Reser 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 Swigert-Warren 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.
- Elso Inc — 100% of income from government
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Northwest Family Services — 35% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Safety Compass — 25% of income from government
- Young Audiences of Oregon Inc — 23% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Artichoke Community Music — 7% of income from government
- North Coast Land Conservancy Inc — 6% of income from government
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Bodyvox Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
- World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon — 0% of income from government
- Do Good Multnomah — 0% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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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