· Private foundation
Samuel Weiss Family Charitable the Swf Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CT COUNCIL OF POETS LAUREATE | $1,000 |
| GEORGE FLYNN CLASSICAL CONCERTS | $1,000 |
| THE TOWERS FOUNDATION | $450 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| THE ARC OF RENSSELAER COUNTY | $250 |
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 (FY24–24, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +64% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 34% 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
- CICazCares Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $73k · revenue +97%
- MAMusical Associates of Central New York6× · 2018–2023 · $17k · revenue +32%
- SQSTONE QUARRY HILL ART PARK INC4× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- EOEARLVILLE OPERA HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -10%
- CMCLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $2k
- OTOPERA THEATER OF CONNECTICUT INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -42%
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.
Fine Arts Radio, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to supporting classical and classic music in Connecticut and New York
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
To stage the finest professional opera productions in Southeastern New England. To excite and build audiences for the enjoyment of a grand art form. To offer educational programs and creative community outreach events that expand the opera…
The schenectady light opera company, inc.'s (sloc) purpose is to develop an appreciation of the musical arts in the local community by promoting and producing musical productions.
To further art education and appreciation.
The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.
Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.
The mission of the eastern connecticut symphony, inc. is to inspire, educate and connect our communities through live orchestral music.
The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.
Productions
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 21 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 CazCares Inc ↗
- Who funds George Flynn Classical Concerts Inc ↗
- Who funds Musical Associates of Central New York ↗
- Who funds STONE QUARRY HILL ART PARK INC ↗
- Who funds Mystic Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds EARLVILLE OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA THEATER OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOWERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NYSARC INC RENSSELAER COUNTY CHAPTER ↗
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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Samuel Weiss Family Charitable the Swf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuel Weiss Family Charitable the Swf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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