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Miller-Sweezy Charitable Trust

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.

$215k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$793kPublic Benefit$460kInternational$396kEducation$212kHuman Services$152kCrime & Legal$127kEnvironment$87kCivil Rights$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $132k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$46k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOMB MAGAZINE$62,300
PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC$35,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC$25,000
PRIORITIES USA$25,000
BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL$16,000
BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER$10,500
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE$10,000
ACCION INTERNATIONAL$10,000
THE COMMON GOOD$7,000
PUBLIC TRUTH MEDIA FOUNDATION$5,000
ASIA ART ARCHIVE AMERICA INCORPORATED$2,500
NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION$2,000
REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS$2,000
THE KENTUCKY DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT$2,000
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$1,000
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 (FY17–24, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REBUILDING BROKEN PLACES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 18%STOCKINGS WITH CARE: $100 → 17%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER: $51k → 7%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER: $32k → 7%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER: $27k → 7%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATIONAL CENTER: $25k → 7%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER: $11k → 7%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER: $1k → 7%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER: $600 → 7%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

VT
NY
MA
WY
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 37 repeat orgs$363k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
63

Total granted

$2.3M
$350k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+39%

Still filing today

92%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NA
    NEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $417k · revenue +31%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +5%
  • BC
    Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • HL
    HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -61%
  • NE
    NYU ENTREPRENEURIAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

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
Boston Architectural College

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

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2
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
3
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
7
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
8
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
9
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.

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10
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
11
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
12
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project 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 backsteadyPrivate Foundations and Tru…Community Arts EducationAnimal Rescue and AdoptionAffordable Housing & Suppor…Policy & Advocacy Organizat…
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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr12%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr12%32%35–55yr12%33%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/88
the rest of the field
13%
16,610/125,868

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

84 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. 84 of the 105 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/84
Grantees still filing
55/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC — $416,850 · OtherNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INCNYU — $150,000 · OtherNYUCORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK — $110,001 · OtherCORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORKHARVARD LAW SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherGLOBAL KIDS INC — $44,500 · Other+38 more — $222,830 · Other+38 moreCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $235,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN…PRIORITIES USA — $175,000 · Civil RightsPRIORITIES USANAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE…+4 more — $15,250 · Civil RightsCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $150,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIG…NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC — $132,000 · InternationalNATIONAL COMMITTE…ACCION INTERNATIONAL — $52,000 · InternationalACCION INTERNATIO…THE AFRICA-AMERICA INSTITUTE — $47,000 · InternationalTHE AFRICA-AMERIC…+7 more — $37,100 · International+7 morePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $95,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN C…BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC — $92,900 · Arts & CultureBRIDGEHAMPTON …MONTHLY REVIEW FOUNDATION — $87,500 · Arts & CultureMONTHLY REVIEW…KENTUCKY DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT INC — $12,000 · Arts & Culture+19 more — $69,057 · Arts & Culture+19 moreWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $136,000 · EducationWILLIAM J…Partnership for Responsible Growth Inc — $35,000 · EducationPartnersh…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $25,000 · EducationPresident…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Education+10 more — $20,600 · Education+10 moreBridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc — $146,600 · Human ServicesRebuilding Broken Places CDC — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $5,100 · Human ServicesPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $50,125 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · Environment
Other$994,181Civil Rights$475,250International$418,100Arts & Culture$356,457Education$236,600Human Services$161,700Environment$51,125

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 budgetNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC — $416,850 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $235,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPRIORITIES USA — $175,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc — $146,600 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $136,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC — $132,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK — $110,001 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $95,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC — $92,900 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetMONTHLY REVIEW FOUNDATION — $87,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetACCION INTERNATIONAL — $52,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $50,125 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFRICA-AMERICA INSTITUTE — $47,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL KIDS INC — $44,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPartnership for Responsible Growth Inc — $35,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT INC — $12,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMON GOOD FORUM INC — $11,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC — $10,780 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRebuilding Broken Places CDC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGUNSDOWN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPublic Truth Media Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIA ART ARCHIVE IN AMERICA INC — $9,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetREHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC — $8,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $5,425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWNET — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts — $4,722 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOLK NEW ENGLAND INC — $3,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetFAIRVOTE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER ON THE HILL INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHeyday — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO EASY PROPS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…Rockefeller Philanthr…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Mai Family Founda…The Rockefeller Found…Goldman-Sonnenfeldt F…Ag FoundationRockefeller Brothers …Silicon Valley Commun…The Chicago Community…
Jewish Communal FundNY25.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Mai Family Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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 Miller-Sweezy Charitable Trust 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
20report 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, FY20–25

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 105 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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