Connecticut · Private foundation
Sweet Justice 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.
- $590k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Sweet Justice Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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 | 19 | $640k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $435k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $440k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $378k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $285k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $245k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equality Now Inc | $285,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Feminist Majority Foundation | $270,000 | 6 | 1% |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc | $230,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc | $195,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sanctuary for Families Inc | $170,000 | 6 | 0% |
| You Can Vote | $115,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Women for Women International | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Center for Documentary Studies | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fund for Women's Equality Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Unchained at Last Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($445k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sweet Justice Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Sweet Justice Foundation
- How much does Sweet Justice Foundation give?
- Sweet Justice Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $590,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sweet Justice Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (44%), Human Services (14%), Health (13%).
- Who are Sweet Justice Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Equality Now Inc ($285k), Feminist Majority Foundation ($270k), National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ($230k).
- Does Sweet Justice Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sweet Justice Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sweet Justice Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Sweet Justice Foundation based?
- Sweet Justice Foundation is based in CT.
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