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Sweeney Family Foundation Inc

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.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Health$84kEducation$77kHuman Services$66kCrime & Legal$15kEnvironment$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$24,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$25,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$24,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC$22,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $22k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $22k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $22k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$212k · 3 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$212k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalScience & TechOther

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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $74k · revenue +29%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $72k · revenue +50%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $66k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • AF
    AVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • TW
    THE WAY BACK HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -72%
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

2
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Ny Police and Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund Inc

Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…

Human Services
10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
11
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
12
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chaminade Development Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $74,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL I…BURROWS HILL FOUNDATION TO FIGHT FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA — $5,000 · HealthBURROWS HILL FOUNDATION TO FIGHT FRIED…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $72,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOU…CHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC — $5,000 · EducationCHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INCWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $66,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE WAY BACK HOUSE INC — $5,000 · OtherWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $5,000 · Science & Tech
Health$84,000Education$77,000Human Services$66,000Crime & Legal$10,000Other$5,000Science & Tech$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $74,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $66,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WAY BACK HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURROWS HILL FOUNDATION TO FIGHT FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc11% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sweeney Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sweeney Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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