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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Civil Rights$805kHuman Services$255kHealth$245kPublic Benefit$128kArts & Culture$105kInternational$105kCrime & Legal$25kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $350k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLAN C - POSSIBILITY LABS$50,000
PANORAMA GLOBAL$50,000
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL$50,000
NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC$50,000
PREGNANCY JUSTICE$50,000
FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION$50,000
EQUALITY NOW$40,000
TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER$40,000
FRONTLINE WOMEN'S FUND$25,000
FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE PROJECT$25,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$25,000
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES$25,000
YOU CAN VOTE$25,000
CAROLINA ABORTION FUND$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 10%STEPUP DURHAM: $10k → 11%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $10k → 10%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $10k → 10%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $10k → 10%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $10k → 10%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
PA
NJ
CA
AZ
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Sweet Justice Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Sweet Justice Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 17 repeat orgs$485k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
11

Total granted

$1.9M
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+10%

Still filing today

76%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EN
    Equality Now Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $285k · revenue +112%
  • FM
    FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $270k · revenue +22%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +36%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WOMENS HEALTH NETWORK
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • SI
    SISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -33%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
2
Women's Link Worldwide

A legal organization working to advance the rights of women, girls, and gender diverse people. We work on issues of reproductive rights, gender-based violence, climate, and racial justice in East Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the…

Civil Rights
3
Women in Migration Network Inc

Women in Migration Network (WIMN), an international non-governmental organization, identifies and promotes human rights-based and feminist global migration policies. We lift up and support the experiences, voices and agency of all women in…

Civil Rights
4
Stichting Womens Initiatives for Gender Justice

Ending impunity for conflict related sexual violence

International
5
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
6
The Conversationalist
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7
Womens Foreign Policy Group Inc

Founded in 1995 wfpg works to expand the foreign policy dialogue across policital divides and generations and to support women at every stake of their careers. as champions of womens leadership we are proud of our role in expanding the…

International
8
Independent Women's Voice

Engage more individuals in legislative advocacy, educate them about the impact of public policies on their lives and our economy, and build support for policies that empower individuals by giving them greater freedom and autonomy.

Civil Rights
9
Independent Women's Forum

Engage more individuals in the civic process, educate them about the impact of public policies on their lives and our economy, and build support for policies that empower individuals.

Civil Rights
10
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
11
Women Deliver Inc

Women deliver is a global feminist advocacy organization with a clear mission: to ensure that every self-identifying girl and woman has control over her body and life. see organization's full mission statement in schedule o.

Education
12
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hidden Voices. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION: $270,000 · OtherFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATIONNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS: $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDSFRONTLINE WOMEN'S FUND: $85,000 · OtherFRONTLINE WOMEN'S FUNDTHE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES: $75,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIESIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLAN C - POSSIBILITY LABS: $50,000 · OtherPLAN C - POSSIBILITY LABSIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherNATIONAL WOMENS HEALTH NETWORK: $40,000 · Other+6 more: $120,000 · Other+6 moreNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $230,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Worke…YOU CAN VOTE: $115,000 · Civil RightsYOU CAN VOTEFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALI…PREGNANCY JUSTICE INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsPREGNANCY JUSTICE INCTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $40,000 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CEN…Equality Now Inc: $285,000 · InternationalEquality Now IncWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERN…PANORAMA GLOBAL: $50,000 · InternationalPANORAMA GLOBALSISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 · InternationalSISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL I…+2 more: $20,000 · InternationalSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $170,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY F…UNCHAINED AT LAST INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesUNCHAINED A…CAROLINA FEDERATION FUND: $10,000 · Human ServicesSTEPUP DURHAM: $10,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $195,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…CAROLINA ABORTION FUND: $35,000 · HealthCAROLINA A…INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY: $47,500 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHidden Voices: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $25,000 · Education
Other$845,000Civil Rights$495,000International$490,000Human Services$240,000Health$230,000Arts & Culture$97,500Education$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEquality Now Inc: $285,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION: $270,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $230,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $195,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $170,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYOU CAN VOTE: $115,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES: $75,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetUNCHAINED AT LAST INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY: $47,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSISTERHOOD IS GLOBAL INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCAROLINA ABORTION FUND: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition Against Trafficking In Women: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNC WARN INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHidden Voices: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCAROLINA FEDERATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPUP DURHAM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Triangle Community Fo…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…Tides FoundationCommunity Foundation …NEO Philanthropy IncFoundation for the Ca…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sweet Justice Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sweet Justice Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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