· Private foundation
Sweet Bay Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JSERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURCH | $4,125 |
| LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| SAGE SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| ST JOHN NEUMANN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| PUPS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,500 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| ST THERESE OF CARMEL CATHOLIC CHURC | $2,125 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $500 |
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 (FY17–18, $2k) 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +42% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
JUDICIAL WATCH INC4× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +141%- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $9k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $9k
- OLOUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $6k
- OSOUR SAVIOR PARISH & USC CARUSO CATHOLICone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To educate women to develop their intellect and talents through active participation in a community of scholars, so that as graduates they may contribute to society through public and private lives of leadership, service, integrity and…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
See Disclosure Above.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 60 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 JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PUPS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds Loloma Foundation ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds Shafranski Art Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds Global GLOW ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds The Charlemagne Institute ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sweet Bay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sweet Bay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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