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Sweet Peas Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$122k
Granted FY2022
20
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$107kEducation$52kEnvironment$46kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kArts & Culture$20kReligion$13kAnimals$13kHuman Services$11kOther$0
02FY2022 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k16 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOCA GRANDE DISASTER FUND$30,000
BOCA GRANDE WOMANS CLUB$30,000
BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION$20,400
GASPARILLA ISLAND CONSERVATION & IMPROVEMENT$15,000
BRAZILIAN SOCCER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$3,500
ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$3,000
THE ISLAND SCHOOL FOUNDATION$3,000
THOMAS G LABREQUE FOUNDATION$2,500
WATERFRONT MUSEUM$2,500
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$2,000
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY$1,500
THE ISLAND SCHOOL$1,500
BOCA GRANDE PRESCHOOL$1,000
BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
ROYAL PALM PLAYERS$1,000
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 (FY19–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEARCH AND CARE: $500 → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $500 → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $250 → 17%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

NH
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
DC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$263k · 34 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2022, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
13

Total granted

$263k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+87%

Still filing today

71%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BG
    BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $101k · revenue +243%
  • MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue +196%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • SH
    SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • YT
    York Theatre Company Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +87%
  • BI
    BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -23%
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.

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Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
2
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
3
New York Yacht Club Foundation

Maintain, restore & preserve the exterior of the historically significant buildings

Community Improvement
4
The Coral Gables Museum Corp

The museum's mission is to celebrate, investigate and explore the civic arts of architecture and urban environmental design, including fostering an appreciation for the history, vision, and cultural landscape of coral gables; promoting…

Arts & Culture
5
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
Bok Tower Gardens Inc

To inspire a better and more beautiful world by sharing edward bok's legacy.

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8
Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
9
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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10
The Bay Park Conservancy Inc

The bay park conservancy (bpc) was formed to implement the master plan approved by the sarasota city commission to conserve 53 acres of public land for a signature park along sarasota bay. the bpc entered a long-term partnership with the…

Community Improvement
11
Gulf Conservation Alliance

Our purpose is to protect and preserve the charlotte harbor/pine island sound estuary system. the culturally and economically important fishery that depends upon this ecosystem is under threat, and new conservation measures are urgently…

Environment
12
Norwalk Seaport Association Inc

The norwalk seaport association, inc. offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to the norwalk islands. the sheffield island lighthouse and the light keeper's cottage provide a unique historical and educational venue which…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Johann Fust Library Foundation 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

31 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. 31 of the 50 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GASPARILLA ISLAND CONSERVATION & IMPROVEMENT: $45,000 · OtherGASPARILLA ISLAND CONSERVATION & IMPROVEMENTBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $31,000 · OtherBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INCBOCA GRANDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherBOCA GRANDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10,500 · OtherST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCHSUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherSUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETY+23 more: $41,000 · Other+23 moreBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $100,900 · PhilanthropyBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC+2 more: $2,250 · PhilanthropyThe Island School Foundation Inc: $9,000 · EducationTHE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $4,500 · EducationThe Boca Grande Preschool Inc: $2,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $750 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationTHE WATERFRONT MUSEUM: $3,250 · Arts & CultureROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,950 · Arts & CultureYork Theatre Company Inc: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureGASPARILLA ISLAND MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $1,250 · Arts & CultureONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $750 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Public BenefitOperation Second Chance Inc: $1,000 · Public BenefitTHOMAS G LABRECQUE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthSUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC: $2,500 · Animals
Other$167,500Philanthropy$103,150Education$17,250Arts & Culture$14,200Public Benefit$6,000Health$5,000Animals$2,500

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 budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $100,900 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $31,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetThe Island School Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMAS G LABRECQUE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE WATERFRONT MUSEUM: $3,250 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE TRACKS INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,950 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYork Theatre Company Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEARCH AND CARE INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGASPARILLA ISLAND MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH PORT YOUTH SOCCER INC: $750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $250 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.

  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds The Island School Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS G LABRECQUE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Boca Grande Preschool Inc ↗
  • Who funds SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC ↗
  • Who funds POSITIVE TRACKS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds York Theatre Company Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds SEARCH AND CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds GASPARILLA ISLAND MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
  • Who funds ONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗

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.

Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncFL27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr · Carbonari Family Foundation · Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Howe Family Foundation · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Shore Lane Family Foundation Inc · The Gemini Foundation · The George and Carol Milne Foundation · Gerald M & Carole a Miller Family Foundation

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 Peas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sweet Peas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 63%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sweet Peas Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sweet Peas Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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