How much did WILLIAM AND MARY SWIFT FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of WILLIAM AND MARY SWIFT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

traverse

2020

—

2021

—

2022

—

2023

paw

2024

paw

2025

paw

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100

Median grant

States reached

$328

Total assets

Largest grants

CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IA$100
PENINSULA COMMUNITY LIBRARY$100
NORTH SKY RAPTOR SANCTUARY$100
NMC FOUNDATION$100
TC PAW CAT RESCUE$100
LEELANAU CONSERVANCY$100
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$100
SALVATION ARMY$100
INLAND SEAS EDUC ASSOCIATON$100
AC PAW - ACME$100
CITY OPERA HOUSE$100
THE WATERSHED CENTER$100
BETA GAMMA SIGMA HONORS SOCIETY$100

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 18%. 3% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$10k · 20 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

Still filing today

30%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentOther

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

PC
PENINSULA COMMUNITY LIBRARY
8× · 2017–2025 · $2k
TW
THE WATERSHED CENTER
8× · 2017–2025 · $800
CO
CITY OPERA HOUSE
8× · 2017–2025 · $800

Funded once

OM
OLD MISSION PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -93%
PR
PEACE RANCH
one grant, 2017 · $1k
GT
GRAND TRAVERSE REG'L LAND CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2017 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Little Traverse Bay Humane Society

To offer a warm shelter, veterinary care, and personal attention to all animals while they are in our care and proactive methods in controlling pet overpopulation. little traverse bay humane soceity has committed ourselves to educate the…

Animals

Michigan Animal Adoption

Animal adoptions; low cost spay/neutering in low income areas. animal care network (acn).

Animals

Humane Society of West Michigan

Our mission is to promote the humane treatment and responsible care of animals in west michigan through education, example, placement and protection.

Animals

Little Traverse Conservancy Inc

To protect the natural diversity and beauty of northern Michigan by preserving significant land and scenic areas, and fostering appreciation and understanding of the environment.

Environment

Turtle Mountain Animal Rescue

To rescue stray animals and re-home ones in need while putting into place the necessary services to decrease animal overpopulation.

Animals

Michigan Wildlife Habitat Foundatio

To restore and conserve fish, wildlife, and habitat throughout the state and teach members and the public to do the same.

Environment

Bella View Farm Animal Sanctuary

Animals

Michigan Lakes and Streams

Preservation and protection of michigan inland lakes and streams

Environment

Little Traverse Conservancy

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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Peninsula Humane Society & Spca

To ensure humane treatment and quality of life for all animals.

Animals

Pearsons Howling Timbers

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…

Animals

Detroit Dog Rescue

First no kill shelter in detroit -also work at exposing and ending the plight of stray, abused and fogotten dogs of detroit. significant activities include: rescue and rehab, community outreach, spay and neuter clinics, vacccination…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leelanau Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Vista Maria. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/12

Grantees still filing

6/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$11,400Animals$2,200Education$1,300Health$1,000Environment$800Arts & Culture$400

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.

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.

Oleson FoundationMI13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oleson Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TC PAW CAT RESCUE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 923325368 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TC PAW CAT RESCUE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to William and Mary Swift Foundation?

Find your warmest path to William and Mary Swift Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WILLIAM AND MARY SWIFT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to William and Mary Swift Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WILLIAM AND MARY SWIFT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to William and Mary Swift Foundation?

More from the funding graph