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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Food For Thought denver | $5,000 |
| Imagination Library denver | $5,000 |
| Foster Light Kansas City | $2,500 |
| Barrier Free Divers | $2,000 |
| Wildwood Outdoor Education Center | $1,000 |
| The Wash Project | $1,000 |
| Friends of Parkville Animal Shelter | $1,000 |
| Inheritance of Hope | $1,000 |
| Friends of the Dillon Ranger Projec | $1,000 |
| Buckley Spouses Alliance | $1,000 |
| Launch Community Through Skateboard | $600 |
| Music Theater Kansas City | $600 |
| Healthy Kids Running Series Aurora | $550 |
| Girls Inc of Metro Denver | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 10 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- FFFood For Thought Denver2× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +9%
GORGE MAKERSPACE2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +110%- FHFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- MRMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +49%
- AAART AS MENTORSHIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +89%
- VSVILLAGE SHALOM INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
Almost Home empowers young moms to become self-sufficient and create a better future for themselves and their children.
Repairing homes, revitalizing communities, rebuilding lives.
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
Safe Place supports survivors of sex trafficking and exploitation through relationships, empowerment, and opportunities.
Every Shelter's mission is to build a localized refugee-aid ecosystem centered around the needs, preferences, and aspirations of refugees.
We engage youth in team-based service experiences that build life and work skills while inspiring a lifetime ethic of service.
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
She Is Safe prevents, rescues and restores women and girls from abuse and exploitation in high risk communities across the globe, equipping them to build lives of freedom and faith for a strong future. We accomplish our work in partnership…
Alternatives to violence provides shelter, advocacy, education and resources for people impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault and n trafficking.
Helping low income individuals and families, by providing mentor, leadership, work development, life skills programs, and resources for underserved communities.
The KCMO Angels mission is to walk alongside children, youth, and families in the foster care community by offering consistent support through intentional giving, relationship building, and mentorship.
Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc and the most unlike its peers is Team Fidelis 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 21 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 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 53 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 Food For Thought Denver ↗
- Who funds GORGE MAKERSPACE ↗
- Who funds BARRIER FREE DIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Imagination Library of Denver ↗
- Who funds MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Cycle Effect ↗
- Who funds ART AS MENTORSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds INHERITANCE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STOP TRAFFICKING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds WASH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS HELPING THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds Team Fidelis Inc ↗
- Who funds VERONICA'S VOICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOLDEN SCOOP LLC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER KC ↗
- Who funds BASE ACADEMY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds City Surf Project ↗
- Who funds Mothers Refuge ↗
- Who funds VAN GO INC ↗
- Who funds Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds Wildwood Outdoor Education Center ↗
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: 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
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 van Swaay charitable 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.
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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