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Patricia Sweeny Memorial Fund
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION | $12,000 |
| MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES | $6,800 |
| ST PAUL'S OUTREACH | $6,000 |
| ST REGIS PARISH AND SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| LOUISIANA FAIR HOUSING ACTION | $5,000 |
| AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS | $5,000 |
| CORE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY | $4,600 |
| MARY'S MEALS | $4,000 |
| MODERN DAY MISSION | $4,000 |
| COMMUNITY LINC | $3,250 |
| SERAPHIC MASS ASSOCIATION | $3,215 |
| ST ANTHONY PARISH | $3,000 |
| ST MICHAEL ARCHANGEL HS | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 19 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- C1CAFE 1040 INC4× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +62%
- MMMary's Meals USA Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +340%
- IAIMAGINE A WAY2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- KJKING JAMERE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $9k
- SCST CHARLES CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- GHGENERATION HOPE - NEW ORLEANSone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
The Center for Faith and Work St. Louis is a ministry focused on engaging the world through Biblical understanding of work and vocation. The character of God, shapes the character of our work. CFW seeks to engage all who desire to do…
To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…
Pregnancy counseling
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…
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
Sharing the love of christ while promoting sexual integrity and bringing life affirming services to those unprepared for pregnancy or hurt by abortion
To seek & serve the catholic & evangelical faith of the one Church to the end of visible Christian unity throughout the world.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Turning Tables. 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 24 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 137 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 CAFE 1040 INC ↗
- Who funds Mary's Meals USA Inc ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE A WAY ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Autism Society of Texas ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND CENTER FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Little Sisters of The Poor ↗
- Who funds THE RUTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINC ↗
- Who funds JUST HOMES ↗
- Who funds And Then There Were None ↗
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Servant Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · McCullough Family Foundation · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The McGee Foundation · The Dehaemers Family Charitable Trust · New Orleans Community Support Foundation
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 Patricia Sweeny Memorial Fund 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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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