· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +236% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
None
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.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michael Sweig Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Sweig Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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