Maine · Private foundation
Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $476k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $170,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $476k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $462k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $494k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $365k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $286k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $163k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $247k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $224k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontline Catalysts | $110,000 | 2 | 16% |
| St Croix Environmental Association | $80,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Community Water Center | $60,550 | 2 | n/a |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $57,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Manomet Inc | $33,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Environmental Health Coalition | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Waterways Restoration Institute | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| California Native Plant Society | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Silent Spring Institute Inc | $22,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Carnegie Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontline Catalysts | $110,000 | 2 | 16% |
| St Croix Environmental Association | $80,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Community Water Center | $60,550 | 2 | n/a |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $57,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Manomet Inc | $33,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Environmental Health Coalition | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Waterways Restoration Institute | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| California Native Plant Society | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Silent Spring Institute Inc | $22,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Carnegie Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Confluence Philanthropy Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| EcoAdapt | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hester Street Collaborative Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation with peer funders
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About Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation
- How much does Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation give?
- Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $476,156 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (93%), Employment (4%), Housing & Shelter (2%).
- Who are Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Frontline Catalysts ($110k), St Croix Environmental Association ($80k), Community Water Center ($61k).
- Does Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natural Resources Defense Council Inc, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Nature Conservancy.
- Where is Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation based?
- Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation is based in ME.
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