· Private foundation
Sweetser Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $53,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE | $28,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SEEDS 4 SUCCESS | $20,000 |
| STAIR | $15,000 |
| ARCS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND FINANCIAL SERVICES | $6,000 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $5,000 |
| CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS (CCALS) | $5,000 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE3× · 2022–2025 · $160k · revenue +19%- S4SEEDS 4 SUCCESS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $144k · revenue +126%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC5× · 2019–2023 · $100k · revenue +78%
Funded once
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +64%
Elon Universityone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +18%- SMST MARY'S PARISHCAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2024 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Education and Research
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emerson College and the most unlike its peers is Construction Education Foundation of Virginia Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SEEDS 4 SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds Start the Adventure in Reading (STAIR) - Annapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of New England ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPA CREEK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds Rivier University ↗
- Who funds Husson University ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Davis Educational Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · LPL Financial Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · F Roger Miller Trust · Cochran Gifford a Tr Uind · Higgins Mary E Educ Fund · Lillian M Baker Trust Portland Trust Co LLC · Albert H Young · William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trustee
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 Sweetser 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.
- Seeds 4 Success Inc — 48% of income from government
- Historic Annapolis Inc — 45% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
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.