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van Swaay charitable 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.

$23k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 13
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$130k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations van Swaay charitable foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$23k71%
FY20248$19k75%
FY20239$19k89%
FY202213$23k92%
FY202112$17k100%
FY20205$17kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$27kEmployment$10kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$9kYouth Development$8kHealth$8kEducation$7kReligion$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
KS
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget van Swaay charitable foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFood For Thought Denver: $9,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGorge Makerspace: $7,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBarrier Free Divers Inc: $6,800 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetFreedom House Ministries: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetImagination Library of Denver: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/A Mattie Rhodes Center: $3,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArt as Mentorship Inc: $3,200 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Cycle Effect: $3,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInheritance of Hope Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVillage Shalom Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stop Trafficking Project Inc: $2,800 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAutism Society of Colorado: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCharitable Ventures of Orange County: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArtists Helping the Homeless Inc: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFosteradopt Connect Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Fidelis Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetVeronica's Voice Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Golden Scoop LLC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLead to Read Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Breakthrough Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssistance League of Kansas City: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBase Academy of Music: $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSafehome Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelter Kc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity Surf Project: $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMothers Refuge: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVan Go Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave: $1,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetEmerging Builders Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMission St Louis: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNow I Lay Me Down to Sleep: $625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLaunch Community Through Skateboard: $600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Levitt Pavilion Denver: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Metro Denver: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO35.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Curry Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to van Swaay charitable 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.

About van Swaay charitable foundation

How much does van Swaay charitable foundation give?
van Swaay charitable foundation reported 14 grants totaling $22,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does van Swaay charitable foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Employment (9%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
Who are van Swaay charitable foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Food For Thought Denver ($10k), Gorge Makerspace ($7k), Barrier Free Divers Inc ($7k).
Does van Swaay charitable foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does van Swaay charitable foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as van Swaay charitable foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc, R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg.
Where is van Swaay charitable foundation based?
van Swaay charitable foundation is based in KS.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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