The Swift Fund for the Arts
Welcome to the website for Swift Fund for the Arts
Update for 2019/2020: Our 20/20 VisionThis year’s campaign focuses on music programs in Nevada County that are inclusive and fun, inspiring students in the community to advance their musical abilities, teamwork and love for music.
Unfortunately, we have seen music programs that are biased and marginalize the challenges of diversity and inclusion, all in the name of serving a few vocal parents. The result is not better music or better people, but a divisive, unsustainable and ultimately failed system that degrades talented individuals – serving to extinguish young spirits, creativity and love for music.
The music must change.
We aim to support programs that reach beyond to inspire musical spirits and the community.
in 2020 we support and hope you will as well:
Music in the Mountains Youth Orchestra
https://www.musicinthemountains.org/
The Miners Foundry
https://minersfoundry.org/
Sierra Academy of Expeditionary Learning Music Club
http://www.sierraacademy.net/
A little history of the evolution of Swift Fund for the Arts
After dissolution of the 501 (c) 3 for Swift Fund for the Arts. Continuation as a private foundation with new goals to support inspiring music and art programs. Reformation of our goals are centered around inclusion and inspiration for music and the arts.
This organization is celebrating over a fifteen years of supporting music and the arts. The Swift Fund for the Arts was originally formed as a nonprofit to promote scholarship in music, humanities and the arts. We are no longer a 501 (c) (3) organization due to the erosion of support for small non profits in our country, making a nonprofit like ours untenable. We have decided to operate as a private foundation while continue the spirit of donation to select entities.
The Swift Fund for the Arts draws upon the artistic resources of the Swift Family, particularly royalties from the musical compositions of Richard G. Swift as well as the writings of Dorothy Z. Swift. The Swift Fund for the Arts also provides a resource for access to these and other artistic works. In addition to issuance of scholarships, funding of lectures and concerts, the organization is dedicated to management of artistic resources as a source of funds for donations to support local programs.
Some of our notable efforts include:
In 2019 after conversion to a private foundation, we continued our legacy of acting local in support of music programs by donation to select Nevada County entities. See Press Release.
In 2017 we donated to the Sierra Academy for Expeditionary Learning in Nevada County for their art program. See the SAEL website for their wealth of programs for high school students.
The 2016 Richard G. Swift Memorial Scholarship awarded to Halee Heising of Delphos, OH.
The 2015 Richard G. Swift Memorial Scholarship for graduating senior from Delphos, OH was awarded to Kelli Kramer.
Sponsored the 12th annual Tasty Jazz Concert featuring the Mikel Paul Trio on April 10, 2013, supporting the Magnolia Intermediate School Rattler Jazz Band.
The 2013 Richard G. Swift Memorial Scholarship for graduating senior from Delphos, OH was awarded to Paige Miller.
The 2012 Richard G. Swift Memorial Scholarship for graduating senior from Delphos, OH was awarded to Cassidy Bevington
The 2011 Richard G. Swift Memorial Scholarship for graduating senior from Delphos, OH was awarded to Meagan Williams.
Our scholarship for the Lake Tahoe Music Festival’s Orchestra Academy was awarded to Joel Tosta Alarcon in June 2010.
The Richard G. Swift Memorial Scholarship for graduating senior from Delphos, OH 2010 Scholarship was awarded to Ashley Rode.
The Richard G. Swift Memorial Scholarship for graduating senior from Delphos, OH 2009 Scholarship was awarded to Krista Youngpeter.
Last year’s SYS Scholarship scholarship was awarded to Mary Jade Farruggia of Fair Oaks, in the Premier Sacramento Youth Symphony Orchestra.
The 2008 Mildred A. Eley Scholarship for the Mono Lake Music and Ecology Camp was awarded to Isoke Khemet from Sacramento, CA.
Funding for the UC Davis Percussion Festival in April, 2008.
…and many more scholarships and programs supported back to 2005.
All nonprofit corporation and tax documents for the Swift Fund for the Arts are available for public review. Contact us at jtswift@swiftfund.org.
The Swift Fund for the Arts retains the publishing and performance rights for all artistic works of Richard G. Swift and Dorothy Z. Swift. The Swift Fund for the Arts is a member of ASCAP.