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Sweeney Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIVE FOUNDATION | $11,290 |
| CRISTO REY | $5,000 |
| SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- SJSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2024 · $57k · revenue +22%
- TCTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +424%
- SMSAINT MARGARET OF CASTELLO MATERNITY HOME2× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- FTFACE TO FACE INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -25%
- TMTHE MCDAVID GROUP CHARITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +418%
- CCCALIPER CARESone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…
We, trinity health of the mid-atlantic region and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy catholic medical center of southeastern…
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
Mcleod physician associates ii operates as a part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing…
Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, & community services.
We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.
We, st. joseph's hospital health center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's hospital health center is a member of st.…
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…
Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…
As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fighting Back Scholarship Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake Dunmore Fern Lake Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FACE TO FACE INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Dunmore Fern Lake Association ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARGARET OF CASTELLO MATERNITY HOME ↗
- Who funds THE MCDAVID GROUP CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
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.
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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 Sweeney Family Foundation 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.
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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