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William and Mary Swift 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TC PAW CAT RESCUE | $100 |
| CITY OPERA HOUSE | $100 |
| NMC FOUNDATION | $100 |
| AC PAW - ACME | $100 |
| THE WATERSHED CENTER | $100 |
| CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IA | $100 |
| INLAND SEAS EDUC ASSOCIATON | $100 |
| NORTH SKY RAPTOR SANCTUARY | $100 |
| PENINSULA COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $100 |
| BETA GAMMA SIGMA HONORS SOCIETY | $100 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $100 |
| LEELANAU CONSERVANCY | $100 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100 |
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 (FY17–25, $600) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $800 · revenue +70%- TSTRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC3× · 2017–2020 · $300 · revenue +62%
- NINORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $300 · revenue +203%
Funded once
- PRPEACE RANCHone grant, 2017 · $1k
- MPMICHAEL'S PLACEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +44%
- OMOld Mission Peninsula Education Foundationone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -93%
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.
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
Rescue & find homes for cats; spay, nueter and adopt out as many cats as possible. Provice foster care homes for unadopted. Provide Vet care. Educate the public about over population available programs.
To operate an animal shelter.
Rescue, care for, and release abandoned and injured birds.
Oconto area humane society is an open-admission shelter dedicated to providing protection, care and shelter for abandoned and homeless campanion animals
The mission of the michigan animal rescue league is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community…
To provide life-long sanctuary to wolves, wolf dogs, and exotic animals that have been neglected, abused, abandoned or relinquished by their previous owner. To assist humane societies, animal shelters and the Michigan Department of…
To shelter and find forever homes for homeless dogs and cats.
Our mission is to promote the humane treatment and responsible care of animals in west michigan through education, example, placement and protection.
Non-profit wildlife rehabilitation rescue services West Michigan Wildlife Center is an independent nonprofit volunteer organization dedicated to offering the West Michigan area a reliable high-quality resource for the rehabilitation of…
Wildside Rehabilitation and Education Center is a non-profit organization opened in 1995 and devoted to the rehabilitation and release of sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife. We are one of the largest wildlife rehabilitation centers in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vista Maria and the most unlike its peers is Peter Dougherty Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 MICHAEL'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds Old Mission Peninsula Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF WONDER INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER MUZZLE COTTAGE ↗
- Who funds TC PAW CAT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds North Sky Raptor Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds PETER DOUGHERTY SOCIETY ↗
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: Oleson Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organization William and Mary Swift 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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