Texas · Nonprofit
SWANITI INITIATIVE
SWANITI INITIATIVE (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,626,901 to it, the largest being THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION ($3,000,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $54M
What Swaniti Initiative does
Mission
Our mission is to help build strong and supportive ecosystems that can stand up to the realities of a changing climate. Today, countries are expected to transition quickly to cleaner energy, strengthen social protection and improve systems that serve millions of people. We see our role as helping make that journey easier, faster and more inclusive. We work with governments to strengthen the systems they rely on every day, help connect the right partners, and make sure good ideas can grow into lasting solutions. We bring together insights from communities, innovations from the private sector and the passion of civil society to make public programs more effective and more accessible. At the center of our mission is a commitment to people. We want climate action to be meaningful and grounded. We want institutions to be prepared for the challenges ahead. And we want development pathways that give everyone a fair chance to participate in a greener and more sustainable economy. Everything we
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization received a grant to establish a sustainable and scalable model of carbon dioxide removal through enhanced rock weathering technique along with co-benefits to marginal farmers in the global south. Project mati was conceived as a pilot project in the year 2022 to address the challenges faced by marginal farmers in the context of climate change. Enhanced rock weathering (erw) holds great potential as a tool for carbon removal and empowering paddy farmers in india. Erw process offers a promising solution of crushed rocks, such as basalt, on agricultural fields. As these rocks weather over time, they naturally absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and lock it away in the form of stable carbonates. The weathering of rocks releases essential minerals and nutrients into the soil, replenishing nutrient levels and improving soil health. This leads to increased nutrient availability for crops, resulting in higher yields and improved productivity for paddy farmers. Mati carbon's mission is to scale carbon dioxide removal in rice fields by enhanced weathering. The mati process leverages naturally occurring silicate rocks weathering phenomenon by accelerating the process…
$920,007 spent27% of program spendingProvided technical assistance to state owned enterprises, like coal india, to map out the pathway for energy transition and inclusive growth. Teams were placed at a state owned enterprise level as well as a state program in order to map strategically work on ensuring that an inclusive transition process is mapped out.
$327,033 spent10% of program spendingSupported the up state government on decarbonization of industry. Specifically, our intention was to map out where the bottlenecks exist in government programs around decarbonization and to support the government in removing those bottlenecks. Over the course of 24 months, the swanitit team worked with the up government to mindfully remove these key bottlenecks. Work on ensuring that an inclusive transition process is mapped out." can you expand on this program describing
$227,900 spent7% of program spendingSwaniti Initiative is a social enterprise supporting government administration and elected representatives to ensure last-mile public service delivery and policy reforms. The organization receives grants from other organizations to complete projects on energy transition, green recovery, sustainable planning and green livelihood. The organization also works with state governments and local bodies for reengineering scheme implementation strategies to ensure the expansion of social security coverage to unskilled migrant workers and vulnerable groups and to enhance the efficiency of development planning processes.
$1,885,203 spent56% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,360,143.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.5M to $58M (+1187%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of SWANITI INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Rwitwika Bhattacharya
Chief executive officer/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $150k → $3.1M.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SWANITI INITIATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SWANITI INITIATIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
30% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SWANITI INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 43% · 2022 64% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of SWANITI INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
SWANITI INITIATIVE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SWANITI INITIATIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 132 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 132 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SWANITI INITIATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- Department of State$45k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SWANITI INITIATIVE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SWANITI INITIATIVE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SWANITI INITIATIVE?
- SWANITI INITIATIVE (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,626,901 to it, the largest being THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION ($3,000,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SWANITI INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $8,626,901 in grants to SWANITI INITIATIVE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SWANITI INITIATIVE?
- THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SWANITI INITIATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing