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Harry & Jan Sweere Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church | $1,219,371 |
| Project Video | $420,000 |
| Venture | $301,000 |
| Camp Omega | $279,000 |
| Franciscan Brothers of Peace | $225,000 |
| The Center for Victims of Torture | $220,000 |
| Show Hope Inc | $200,000 |
| The Sanneh Foundation | $100,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $85,000 |
| Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network | $80,000 |
| Pregnancy Choices For Lifecare | $79,000 |
| Edify | $75,000 |
| Campus Faith Clubs | $72,000 |
| Prenatal Partners For Life | $70,000 |
| Hope Academy | $65,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Harry & Jan Sweere Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 15 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $372k 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
- PVPROJECT VIDEO INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +77% · 70% of their budget
- LILUTHERAN ISLAND CAMP INC4× · 2020–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +195%
- AHAnselm House3× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +236%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $75k
- AOACADEMY OF THE HOLY ANGELSone grant, 2022 · $50k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CELTIC SAINTSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +105%
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Methodist childrens homes seeks to bring restoration to children and youth who have been neglected or abused. by the end of their time with us, we hope to see that they find reconciliation with their biological families, love within an…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Isaiah house strives to help individuals struggling with general life challenges, specifically substance abuse and addiction by providing a christian, faith-based intervention and recovery residential treatment program. the goal is to…
Feed those in need, house those experiencing homelessness, and empower individuals to achieve independence.
Bringing hope, healing, and recovery to seattle's homeless through a christ-centered approach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edify and the most unlike its peers is Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 10% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 115 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 NORTHWESTERN HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VIDEO INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN ISLAND CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Anselm House ↗
- Who funds SHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds VENTURE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHALICE OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS FAITH CLUBS ↗
- Who funds PRENATAL PARTNERS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds 7 BELLS ↗
- Who funds REBUILD UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds TERRI SCHIAVO LIFE & HOPE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds JACK'S BASKET ↗
- Who funds Project Got Your Back ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · American Gift Fund · Servant Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Harry & Jan Sweere 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.
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
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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