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· Private foundation
The Swoboda Family Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$650k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
2
Communities
$350k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Education$2.7MPhilanthropy$250kRecreation & Sports$9kHuman Services$5kFood & Nutrition$5kInternational$3kOther$323k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
food
2019
basketball
2020
basketball
2021
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2022
—
2023
marquette
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
$150,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC$350,000
- BE THE DIFFERENCE NIL INC$150,000
- MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$100,000
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF RALEIGH INC$50,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Swoboda Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
The Swoboda Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 5 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
8
Total granted
$3.2M
$115k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+56%
+88%
Still filing today
80%
63%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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
- MUMARQUETTE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +15%
CRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $463k · revenue +56%- BTBE THE DIFFERENCE NIL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF RALEIGHone grant, 2017 · $75k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
- HFHV3 FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +1265%
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.
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Creighton University
Creighton University, founded in 1878, is one of 28 Jesuit, Catholic universities in the U.S. Through its 9 colleges and schools, Creighton provides over 4,200 undergraduate and nearly 4,100 professional and graduate students an atmosphere…
Education
2
High Point University
High point university's inspiring environment, caring people, and engaging education equip graduates for success and significance by cultivating the values, knowledge, mindset, and skills necessary to thrive in a competitive and rapidly…
Education
3
Hawaii Pacific University
Hpu is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. our innovative programs prepare our graduates as active members of a global society.
Education
4
Mars Hill University
The organization is a private liberal arts univesrity offering programs leading to five degrees: bachelor of arts, science, music, social work and fine arts.
Education
5
Drexel University
Integrated academic offerings enhanced by technology, cooperative education and clinical practice
Education
6
Saint Martin's University
Saint martin's university is a catholic benedictine institute of higher education that empowers students to pursue a lifetime of learning and accomplishment in all arenas of human endeavor.
Education
7
Trinity University
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Education
8
University of Dubuque
Post secondary and graduate level education
Education
9
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is an institution of higher education dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. It operates Wake Forest College, a graduate school of arts and sciences, a…
Education
10
Research Triangle Institute
Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated(see Sch O) to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical expertise…
Science & Tech
11
Northeastern University
Education
12
Wingate University
A comprehensive educational institution offering baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Be the Difference Nil Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$2,679,500Other$323,250Philanthropy$250,000Recreation & Sports$9,000Human Services$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000International$2,500
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 MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BE THE DIFFERENCE NIL INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HV3 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON PERU ↗
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.
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation The Swoboda Family 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +56% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 832027747 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Swoboda Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Swoboda Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines