· Private foundation
Ernest L & Mildred Roberts Sweet Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of ERNEST L & MILDRED ROBERTS SWEET FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEANE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $17,000 |
| TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE | $12,500 |
| WELLSBORO FOUNDATION INC | $9,208 |
| TIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC | $7,100 |
| WELLSBORO CEMETERY COMPANY | $7,000 |
| ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| THE LEARNING TREE OF WELLSBORO | $4,825 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| WELLSBORO TEEN CENTER INC | $4,000 |
| WELLSBORO GLASS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| NORTHERN PA REGIONAL COLLEGE | $2,325 |
| HEART OF TIOGA | $2,058 |
| HAMILTON GIBSON PRODUCTIONS | $2,000 |
| WELLSBORO COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WFWELLSBORO FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $109k · revenue +64%
- TCTIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE4× · 2019–2024 · $77k · revenue +21%
- TCTIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH3× · 2018–2023 · $75k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UWUPMC Wellsboroone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +11%
- WEWELLSBORO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
- GFGREEN FREE LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide volunteer fire and rescue services to the borough of wellsboro and the townships of charleston, delmar and shippen in tioga county pennsylvania.
Local historical education operation of a museum and provision of education relating to the history of tioga county pennsylvania
Provode food for families in need.
Library services to community
To provide free library services to all residents of the borough of woodstown and the township of pilesgrove
Foster economic and community development by acquiring, holding, managing, developing, and marketing distressed, vacant, abandoned, tax-foreclosed, and underutilized residential and commercial property.
None
Tioga county historical society is an eduactional organization established to interpret the history of tioga county by collecting and preserving artifacts, operating a museum, conducting educational programs, publishing materials and…
Develop and improve wellsville ny
The western salisbury fire department is an all-volunteer service that protects the western section of salisbury township, in lehigh county, pennsylvania.
Assists in the economic development of tioga county.
Preserving historic objects & properties. preserving historic objects and properties in the town of webb, and educating patrons on the importance of this history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellsboro Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heart of Tioga. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 25. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 WELLSBORO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEANE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING TREE OF WELLSBORO ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO SHARED HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds UPMC Wellsboro ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO CEMETERY COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GREEN FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON GIBSON PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TWIN TIERS ↗
- Who funds HEART OF TIOGA ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO RIDING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation · Horace B Packer Foundation Inc · Dunham Family Foundation · Earl W and Ina G Tabor Foundation · David G Patterson Foundation · Deerfield Charitable Trust · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Amazonsmile 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 Ernest L & Mildred Roberts Sweet Foundation 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.
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.
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