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Miller-Sweezy Charitable Trust at a glance

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Miller-Sweezy Charitable Trust

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.

$154k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$793kPublic Benefit$460kInternational$396kEducation$212kHuman Services$152kCrime & Legal$127kEnvironment$87kCivil Rights$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $147k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$28k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOMB MAGAZINE$45,000
UMASS AMHERST FOUNDATION$27,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC$25,000
BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATION CENTER$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE$10,000
PUBLIC TRUTH MEDIA FOUNDATION$5,000
THE KENTUCKY DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT$1,000
DAY ONE LEARNING COUMMUNITY$1,000
BROADWAY MALL ASSOCIATION INC$50
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
WY
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 38 repeat orgs$421k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
66

Total granted

$2.4M
$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+32%

Still filing today

92%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $462k · revenue +31%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $175k · revenue +5%
  • BC
    Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -61%
  • HL
    HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • MS
    MT SINAI HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

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
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
4
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
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.

—
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 Economic Club of New York

The economic club of new york is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonpolitical organization dedicated to the promotion of the study and discussion of social, economic and political questions. for more than a century, the club has served as the…

Social Science
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 110 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/86
Grantees still filing
55/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC: $461,850 · 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+42 more: $263,880 · Other+42 moreCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $235,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICA…PRIORITIES USA: $175,000 · Civil RightsPRIORITIES USANAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENS…+4 more: $15,250 · Civil RightsCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $175,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN…NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $132,000 · InternationalNATIONAL COMMITTEE…ACCION INTERNATIONAL: $52,000 · InternationalACCION INTERNATION…THE AFRICA-AMERICA INSTITUTE: $47,000 · InternationalTHE AFRICA-AMERICA…INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE INC: $20,000 · International+6 more: $27,100 · International+6 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…Public Truth Media Foundation: $15,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT INC: $13,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $59,057 · Arts & Culture+18 moreWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $136,000 · EducationWILLIAM J …Partnership for Responsible Growth Inc: $35,000 · EducationPartnershi…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…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$1,080,231Civil Rights$475,250International$453,100Arts & Culture$362,457Education$263,600Human Services$161,700Environment$51,125

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC: $461,850 over 9y, 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: $175,000 over 6y, 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Truth Media Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetKENTUCKY DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT INC: $13,000 over 4y, 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 budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Broken Places CDC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUNSDOWN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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 budgetNew York University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWNET: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $5,000 over 2y, 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 budgetOLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSUMMER ON THE HILL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRVOTE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES B WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget1199 SEIU HOME CARE INDUSTRY EDUCATION F: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Miller-Sweezy Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miller-Sweezy Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home