wlroots & kde both have their own xdg-desktop-portal-*[1][2]'s, which don't seem to be built by Red Hat.
xdg-desktop-portal itself originates from Flatpak[3], which makes me think it's more like to related to Canonical/Ubuntu rather than being something RH drove.
[1] https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32008412 (2 pts, 30 min ago)
You're thinking of Snaps which are a Canonical thing, RedHat has been heavily into Flatpak.
As a Sway user, I haven't noticed anything that works on Gnome but not Sway, except for stuff like Zoom, which hasn't, until recently, used the portals.