Colorado · Private foundation
Sweetwater Family 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.
- $440k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Sweetwater Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 11 | $440k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $255k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $161k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $110k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $100k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $100k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $100k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $90k | 20% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $280,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Knights of Heroes Foundation | $177,000 | 7 | 12% |
| Partners in Housing Inc | $150,000 | 7 | 1% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Marion Medical Mission | $95,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Pioneer Bible Translators | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wedontwaste Inc | $87,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pencils of Promise Incorporated | $66,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Project Restart Inc | $52,000 | 3 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $280,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Knights of Heroes Foundation | $177,000 | 7 | 12% |
| Partners in Housing Inc | $150,000 | 7 | 1% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Marion Medical Mission | $95,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Pioneer Bible Translators | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wedontwaste Inc | $87,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pencils of Promise Incorporated | $66,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Project Restart Inc | $52,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Food Bank for Larimer County | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Richard Lambert Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Hispanic Federation Inc | $17,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Preemptive Love Coalition | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Outreach United Resource Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sweetwater Family 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.
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How this is measured
About Sweetwater Family Foundation
- How much does Sweetwater Family Foundation give?
- Sweetwater Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $440,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sweetwater Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (36%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are Sweetwater Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($280k), Knights of Heroes Foundation ($177k), Partners in Housing Inc ($150k).
- Does Sweetwater Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sweetwater Family 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 Sweetwater Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Sweetwater Family Foundation based?
- Sweetwater Family Foundation is based in CO.
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