Illinois · Private foundation
Sweeney Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $92k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $263k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Sweeney Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 3 | $92k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $52k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $65k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $103k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $76k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $89k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $39k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan | $420,000 | 9 | 27% |
| Positive Coaching Alliance | $81,050 | 7 | 0% |
| Dear Jack Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicago Children's Advocacy Center | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Stand Up for Grace | $1,200 | 1 | 2% |
| Covenant Nursery School | $621 | 1 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($94k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sweeney Charitable Foundation
- How much does Sweeney Charitable Foundation give?
- Sweeney Charitable Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $91,667 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sweeney Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (70%), Education (26%), Recreation & Sports (3%).
- Who are Sweeney Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Michigan ($420k), Positive Coaching Alliance ($81k), Dear Jack Foundation Inc ($4k).
- Does Sweeney Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sweeney Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sweeney Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Sweeney Charitable Foundation based?
- Sweeney Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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