California · Nonprofit
The Swinerton Foundation
The Swinerton Foundation (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,745 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($13,486). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What The Swinerton Foundation does
Mission
The Swinerton Foundation helps build sustainable cities and neighborhoods by partnering with community-focused non-profit organizations to support health, social services, cultural, education, and environmental programs that benefit all members of the community. The Swinerton Foundation also serves as a catalyst to encourage and expand the philanthropic endeavors of swinerton incorporated and its affiliates employees.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
UNIVERSITY GIVING The Swinerton Foundation has made a commitment to support management programs at colleges and universities across the United States. Our involvement with educational institutions centers around support for their academic programs and student scholarships for the best and brightest young students.
$248,050 spentof which $248,050 as grants$5,560 earned by the program28% of program spendingAdopt-a-School Program- The Swinerton Foundation partners with SkillsUSA to prepare high school students for careers in trade occupations. SkillsUSA is a national nonprofit that works to improve the quality of the future workforce by giving them personal, workplace, and technical skills grounded in academics. Our partnership began in 2020, and we have supported SkillsUSA carpentry programs in nine high schools across the country, providing cash grants to classrooms for materials and tools, as well as Career Essential and other educational resources.
Resilient Communities- The Swinerton Foundation partnership with Rebuilding Together began 20 years ago in Oakland and Portland. Today, we sponsor ten build days, providing necessary monetary support and volunteers.
Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$644,016 spentof which $644,016 as grants72% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $892,066.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $4.5M to $5.6M (+23%).
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.
91% of The Swinerton Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $33.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 The Swinerton Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
The Swinerton Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 The Swinerton Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 57% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
76% of The Swinerton Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
The Swinerton Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like The Swinerton Foundation
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 California
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
37%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Swinerton Foundation: 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 The Swinerton Foundation?
- The Swinerton Foundation (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,745 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($13,486). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Swinerton Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $29,745 in grants to The Swinerton Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Swinerton Foundation?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,486 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Swinerton Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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