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Charles B Sweatt Foundation Wells Fargo Dba

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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$267kPhilanthropy$142kArts & Culture$129kReligion$70kHealth$57kAnimals$47kInternational$24kEnvironment$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k62 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$1,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO SEMINARY$20,000
ST MARTIN'S BY-THE-LAKE EPISCOPAL CHURCH$14,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED INC$6,000
SOAPBOX THE FEMINIST FOUNDATION$5,000
GUNSTON HALL FOUNDATION$5,000
FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL FREEDOM$4,500
ST MATTHEWS CHURCH$4,000
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS$3,700
CHICKEN EGG PICTURES INC$3,000
VERDE VALLEY SCHOOL$3,000
LAKE VERMILION CULTURAL CENTER$3,000
CHILDRENS CANCER RESEARCH FUND$3,000
WAYZATA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$2,500
SKYS THE LIMIT FUND$2,500
MINNESOTA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY$2,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $3k → 8%SKYS THE LIMIT FUND: $3k → 8%WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $3k → 11%WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $3k → 11%WECAN: $3k → 11%WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$585k · 84 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

84 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
44

Total granted

$585k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+39%

Still filing today

62%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    SKIDMORE COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +7%
  • MS
    MILLBROOK SCHOOL
    3× · 2018–2022 · $38k · revenue +38%
  • NY
    New York University
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HARVEY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +46%
  • SM
    SAINT MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • SM
    SAINT MATTHEWS CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Soapbox the Feminist Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersCancer Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsCommunity College Foundatio…Domestic Violence ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…School District FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportSenior Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsChristian Youth CampsHealth Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Equine Therapy ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%64%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/117
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,448

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 163 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/106
Grantees still filing
68/106
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MONTANA ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherMONTANA ACADEMY FOUNDATIONST MARTINS BY THE LAKE EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $27,000 · OtherST MARTINS BY THE LAKE EPISCOPAL CHURCHST MARTIN'S BY THE LAKE — $26,000 · OtherST MARTIN'S BY THE LAKEDUCKS UNLIMITED INC — $17,225 · OtherFOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL FREEDOM — $14,750 · Other+98 more — $258,550 · Other+98 moreSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $75,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGEMILLBROOK SCHOOL — $37,500 · EducationMILLBROOK SCHOOLNew York University — $30,000 · EducationNew York UniversityUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERTHE HARVEY SCHOOL — $10,000 · Education+14 more — $26,500 · Education+14 moreTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $140,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUN…CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND — $12,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S CANCER RE…+2 more — $6,500 · PhilanthropyLAKE VERMILION CULTURAL CENTER — $7,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE VERM…CITIZENS FOR BACKUS AB Inc — $7,000 · Arts & CultureCITIZENS …NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $6,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL …HENNEPIN HISTORY MUSEUM — $6,000 · Arts & CultureHENNEPIN …KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART — $5,500 · Arts & CultureKATONAH M…GUNSTON HALL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureGUNSTON H…MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $4,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA…WINONA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $3,750 · Arts & CultureWINONA CO…MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION — $3,500 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $18,550 · Arts & Culture+12 moreMOUNTAIN GORILLA CONSERVATION FUND — $25,875 · AnimalsEVERGREEN ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE — $2,000 · AnimalsAnimal Humane Society — $1,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $1,000 · AnimalsWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND — $5,000 · Human ServicesEvergreen Rotary Foundation Inc — $3,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF KONA INC — $2,750 · Human ServicesDucks Unlimited Inc — $6,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE ARTIST BOAT INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentVOYAGEURS CONSERVANCY — $2,000 · EnvironmentWestchester Land Trust Inc — $2,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC — $1,000 · Environment
Other$378,525Education$199,000Philanthropy$158,500Arts & Culture$69,800Animals$29,875Human Services$22,750Environment$17,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL — $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNew York University — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN GORILLA CONSERVATION FUND — $25,875 over 6y, 23% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVERDE VALLEY SCHOOL — $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARVEY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE HILL TROUPE LTD — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLAKE VERMILION CULTURAL CENTER — $7,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR BACKUS AB Inc — $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE WIN INSTITUTE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHENNEPIN HISTORY MUSEUM — $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART — $5,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGUNSTON HALL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER VALLEY RIDERS — $4,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetINNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION — $4,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINONA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $3,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES DRIVING FOR THE DISABLED INC — $3,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetEvergreen Rotary Foundation Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC — $3,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJOYCE UPTOWN FOODSHELF — $2,875 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPATH PEOPLE FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION HAWAII — $2,850 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHATHAM HALL — $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF KONA INC — $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWAYZATA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWAYZATA SAILING FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HIGH SCHOOL CYCLING LEAGUE — $2,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALOHA PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY — $2,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE
  • Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL
  • Who funds MONTANA ACADEMY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds New York University
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN GORILLA CONSERVATION FUND
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND
  • Who funds WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds VERDE VALLEY SCHOOL
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC
  • Who funds THE HARVEY SCHOOL
  • Who funds BLUE HILL TROUPE LTD
  • Who funds LAKE VERMILION CULTURAL CENTER
  • Who funds CITIZENS FOR BACKUS AB Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc
  • Who funds WE WIN INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds HENNEPIN HISTORY MUSEUM
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE
  • Who funds KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds GUNSTON HALL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND
  • Who funds SOAPBOX THE FEMINIST FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds RIVER VALLEY RIDERS

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN33.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Longview Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Ibm International Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Charles B Sweatt Foundation Wells Fargo Dba funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 163 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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