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The Swinerton Foundation

The Swinerton Foundation helps build sustainable cities and neighborhoods by partnering with community-focused non-profit organizations to support health, social services, cultural, education, and environmental programs that benefit all members of the community.

$846k
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$1.3MEmployment$466kHealth$332kHousing & Shelter$191kHuman Services$171kPhilanthropy$166kFood & Nutrition$132kArts & Culture$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 55 grants below total $700,376 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $845,952 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $145,576 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $194k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $166k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Discovery Education STEM Careers Coalition Wire Transfer$300,000
SkillsUSA$166,325
Colorado State University CM Cares$20,000
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc$10,000
Texas A&M Foundation$10,000
Cypress Mandela Training Center - TW Scholarship$8,000
CWU CMGT Advisory Council$7,000
ACI Printing Services - ASC Reno$5,596
Cal State East Bay Foundation$5,000
Campanile Foundation$5,000
Associated Schools of Construction$5,000
Chico CM Education Foundation$5,000
University of Southern California$5,000
Howard University$5,000
Auburn University Foundation$5,000
02Your 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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 52 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
181

Total granted

$2.6M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+12%

Still filing today

42%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $494k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • LB
    LONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $27k · revenue +120%
  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +116%
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SI
    SkillsUSA Inc. FY23 Partnership
    one grant, 2023 · $160k
  • AN
    AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • HO
    HEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

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

03Your 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
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
4
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
5
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
6
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation

To actively promote, pursue and steward private support for the advancement of california state university, fullerton.

Philanthropy
7
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education
8
Portland State University Foundation

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.

9
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
10
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
11
Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation

To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…

Education
12
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Associated Schools of Construction. 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 backsteadyCommunity Hospital SystemsAffordable Housing Construc…Youth Development CentersYouth Sports ProgramsDomestic Violence and Sexua…Food Pantries and AssistanceChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Childhood Cancer SupportChristian Outreach Ministri…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…College Foundation Support
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 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%38%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%0/65
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,500

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.

03the grantee network

63 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 284 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
43/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Grants under 5K — $1,458,017 · OtherGrants under 5KDiscovery Education STEM Careers Coalition Wire Transfer — $300,000 · OtherDiscovery Education STEM Careers Coalition Wire TransferSkillsUSA — $246,325 · OtherSkillsUSASkillsUSA Inc. FY23 Partnership — $160,000 · Other+149 more — $1,664,296 · Other+149 moreCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationCOLORADO …LONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION — $27,000 · EducationLONG BEAC…VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationVIRGINIA …Texas A&M Foundation — $20,000 · EducationTexas A&M…THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · Education+24 more — $210,000 · Education+24 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc — $25,000 · HealthCoronado Hospital Foundation — $15,000 · HealthJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthWest Bay Pilipino Multi-Services Inc — $8,000 · HealthSharp Healthcare Foundation — $5,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health Foundation — $5,000 · HealthWEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterHONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $27,500 · Community ImprovementCHICO CM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWestern Regional Minority Supplier Development Council — $5,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MILLER FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesSTREET SOCCER USA INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE FOOTHILLS — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE GRYD FOUNDATION — $7,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,828,638Education$357,000Health$68,000Housing & Shelter$43,000Community Improvement$42,500Human Services$22,500Youth Development$14,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION — $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILLER FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoronado Hospital Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Ed Academy — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLORADO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOregon State University Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICO CM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FAMILY GIVING TREE — $8,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOLDEN GATE AREA COUNCIL #023 — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWest Bay Pilipino Multi-Services Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE FOOTHILLS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTREET SOCCER USA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GRYD FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCYPRESS MANDELA TRAINING CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSIONS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation
  • Who funds THE MILLER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY

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.

East Bay Community FoundationCA15.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Stupski Foundation · California Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · J Watumull Fund · Crankstart Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Wells Fargo Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The San Francisco 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Swinerton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Swinerton 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 284 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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