· Private foundation
Michael Sweig Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $300,000 |
| UCSD CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ROBERT H LURIE CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNCIL | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +236% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CPCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $127k · revenue +47%
- PIPAWS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +259%
- OCORANGE COUNTY SHERIFFS ADVISORY COUNCIL5× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +485%
Funded once
- BCBLOOD CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +33%- NPNATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -49%
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.
Provide financial assistance to families of officers injured or killed in the line of duty.
The foundation provides grants to los angeles police department employees and their families who are experiencing financial difficulty due to death, injury or illness.
To provide relief for the immediate economic hardship of the spouse or other close family members of any peace officer in the state of California who loses his or her life while enforcing narcotic laws.
The mission of lapf is to create partnerships to provide resources and programs that help the police perform at their highest level and to enhance lapd-community relations.(see schedule o)
The mission of the burbank police foundation is to cultivate a solid partnership between the burbank police department and the residents, businesses, and institutions it serves in order to enrich the community of burbank and to enhance…
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The chicago police foundation is dedicated to helping improve public safety in the city of chicago by supporting and funding programs to supplement resources, equipment and training available to the chicago police department.
Supporting families of fallen law enforcement officers
To provide financial support to the analytic, operational and outreach components of the Nassau County Police Departments mission to serve and protect the people of Nassau County and to provide safety and an improved quality of life in our…
Assist members in maintaining vocation, assist in contract/labor negotiations, assist members in litigation against or brought by members, assist in member or member family welfare, provide charitable donations and support programs for the…
To recognize and honor california's peace officers who gave their lives in the line of duty. serving the citizens of this great state, and provide support to the family members left behind.
Train & certify police officers in the use of K-9 dogs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Police Memorial Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFFS ADVISORY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Douglas County Sheriffs Advisory Council ↗
- Who funds IN JESUS NAME MEDICAL MINISTRY ↗
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.
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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 Michael Sweig 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.