· Private foundation
The Swyer Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALBANY LAW SCHOOL | $2,500,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NE NEW YORK | $95,000 |
| FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| ST PETER'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $50,000 |
| CAPITAL ROOTS | $25,000 |
| NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST | $15,000 |
| FAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE | $12,500 |
| IPH | $12,500 |
| THE LEGAL PROJECT | $10,000 |
| KOINONIA PRIMARY CARE | $7,500 |
| ARCHIVES PARTNERSHIP TRUST | $5,000 |
| 15-LOVE | $5,000 |
| JAKE'S HELP FROM HEAVEN | $5,000 |
| DOUBLE H RANCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- ALALBANY LAW SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +13%
- UAUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +95%
- FPFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $118k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- KAKENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $144k · revenue +56%
- CFCENTER FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH INCone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +15%
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF DANCEone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -100%
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The academy's primary exempt purpose is to contribute to the scholarly examination of political institutions, processes and public policies; enrich political discourseand channel the best social science research for use in public policy…
Committed to improving public policies and private practices to better the economic and social conditions of all new yorkers. founded in 1991, fpi is committed to creating a strong economy in which prosperity is shared by all new yorkers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University At Albany Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Siena University. 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 37 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 59 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 ALBANY LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL DISTRICT WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF YADDO ↗
- Who funds ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DANCE ↗
- Who funds Albany Pro Musica Inc ↗
- Who funds NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA SPONSOR-A-SCHOLAR ↗
- Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KOINONIA PRIMARY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC ↗
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.
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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 Swyer Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.