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Three Swallows 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLAN OF MARYLAND-DC | $24,000 |
| RED CROSS DISASTER RELIEF | $20,000 |
| CAROLINA HUMAN REINVESTMENT | $15,000 |
| AHISMA IN ACTION | $9,000 |
| ALL SEASONS CHALICE | $7,550 |
| HOPE FOR GRIEVING FAMILIES | $7,000 |
| PAUSE MINISTRY | $7,000 |
| WHITE MILLS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $7,000 |
| REVIVAL MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CREATIVE LIVING BIBLE STUDIES CO ANN HYE TREASURER | $4,000 |
| PAWLEYS ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH | $4,000 |
| DAUPHIN ISLAND BIRDING SANCTUARY | $2,500 |
| BROOKGREEN GARDENS | $2,025 |
| LEARNING COUNCIL | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- HFHOPE FOR GRIEVING FAMILIES5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +32%
- CHCAROLINA HUMAN REINVESTMENT5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +136%
- JWJOHN W BRICK MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2023 · $11k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- TIThe International Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue +51%
- 3P3 POINT 0one grant, 2022 · $8k
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -9%
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.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
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Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
Saybrook University relentlessly pursues a socially just, sustainable world by educating humanistic leaders to transform their fields and communities.
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
The mission of Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation is to advance scientific knowledge in the fields of reproductive biology and women's health; translate this knowledge into improved health for women and infants; train current…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tikkun Olam Foundation Inc. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 81 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 PLAN OF MDDC INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR GRIEVING FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Ahimsa in Action ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA HUMAN REINVESTMENT ↗
- Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds The International Foundation ↗
- Who funds STREET BUSINESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOHN W BRICK MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Region Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARK DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Wee Care 4 Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN DATA SCIENCE AND ANALYTICS INC ↗
- Who funds The Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING COUNCIL ↗
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: Impactassetsinc · Marin Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Three Swallows 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- 4MyCity Inc — 7% 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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