· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AC PAW - ACME | $100 |
| THE WATERSHED CENTER | $100 |
| CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF IA | $100 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $100 |
| LEELANAU CONSERVANCY | $100 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100 |
| INLAND SEAS EDUC ASSOCIATON | $100 |
| TC PAW CAT RESCUE | $100 |
| NORTH SKY RAPTOR SANCTUARY | $100 |
| CITY OPERA HOUSE | $100 |
| NMC FOUNDATION | $100 |
| PENINSULA COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $100 |
| BETA GAMMA SIGMA HONORS SOCIETY | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $800 · revenue +90%- TPTC PAW CAT RESCUE3× · 2023–2025 · $300 · revenue +132%
- TSTRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC3× · 2017–2020 · $300 · revenue +62%
Funded once
- OMOld Mission Peninsula Education Foundationone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -93%
- PIPARAKLESIS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +34%
- MPMICHAEL'S PLACEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +44%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Old Mission Peninsula Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARAKLESIS INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S PLACE ↗
- 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 SILVER MUZZLE COTTAGE ↗
- Who funds TC PAW CAT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF WONDER INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds North Sky Raptor Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PETER DOUGHERTY SOCIETY ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William and Mary Swift Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William and Mary Swift Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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