Maryland · Private foundation
Sweetser Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $334k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Sweetser Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 27 | $334k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $241k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $237k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $283k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $207k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $177k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $211k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $186k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop Carroll High School | $425,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $160,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Seeds 4 Success Inc | $144,400 | 8 | 5% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Start the Adventure in Reading (STAIR) - Annapolis Inc | $94,400 | 7 | 7% |
| Catholic Schools Foundation Inc | $82,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc | $44,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Maine Maritime Academy | $40,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($505k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sweetser Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Sweetser Foundation Inc
- How much does Sweetser Foundation Inc give?
- Sweetser Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $333,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sweetser Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Crime & Legal (5%), Religion (4%).
- Who are Sweetser Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Archbishop Carroll High School ($425k), Worcester Polytechnic Institute ($160k), Seeds 4 Success Inc ($144k).
- Does Sweetser Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sweetser Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sweetser Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Davis Educational Foundation, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation, Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co.
- Where is Sweetser Foundation Inc based?
- Sweetser Foundation Inc is based in MD.
Play a game based on Sweetser’s filings →