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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$525kFood & Nutrition$207kHousing & Shelter$202kYouth Development$177kPublic Safety & Disaster$142kReligion$90kEducation$66kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$75,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$75,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$50,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$50,000
WE DON'T WASTE$50,000
CARE SHARE FOOD BANK OF SOUTH CO$50,000
PARTNERS IN HOUSING$25,000
FOOD BANK OF LARIMER COUNTY$20,000
HOUSED WORKING AND HEALTHY$20,000
MARION MEDICAL MISSION$15,000
PIONEER BIBLE TRANSLATORS$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $60k → 16%PENCILS OF PROMISE: $41k → 17%PREEMPTIVE LOVE: $10k → 16%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $75k → 14%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $75k → 21%KNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION: $40k → 9%FOOD BANK OF LARIMER COUNTY: $20k → 11%OUR CENTER: $10k → 12%HOUSED WORKING AND HEALTHY: $20k → 12%MARION MEDICAL MISSION: $15k → 13%SAINT BERNARD PROJECT: $17k → 23%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $50k → 16%PENCILS OF PROMISE: $25k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $50k → 14%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50k → 21%KNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION: $35k → 9%HOUSED WORKING AND HEALTHY: $20k → 12%MARION MEDICAL MISSION: $15k → 13%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $50k → 16%HISPANIC FEDERATION: $17k → 17%KNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%HOUSED WORKING AND HEALTHY: $12k → 12%MARION MEDICAL MISSION: $15k → 13%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $40k → 16%KNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION: $27k → 9%WE DON'T WASTE: $50k → 12%MARION MEDICAL MISSION: $10k → 13%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $30k → 16%KNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%WE DON'T WASTE: $20k → 12%MARION MEDICAL MISSION: $10k → 13%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $25k → 16%KNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%WE DON'T WASTE: $12k → 12%MARION MEDICAL MISSION: $10k → 13%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $25k → 16%KNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%MARION MEDICAL MISSION: $10k → 13%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $50k → 12%MARION MEDICAL MISSION: $10k → 13%PARTNERS IN HOUSING: $35k → 9%PARTNERS IN HOUSING: $25k → 9%PARTNERS IN HOUSING: $25k → 9%PARTNERS IN HOUSING: $25k → 9%PARTNERS IN HOUSING: $20k → 9%PARTNERS IN HOUSING: $10k → 9%PARTNERS IN HOUSING: $10k → 9%CARE SHARE FOOD BANK OF SOUTH CO: $50k → 9%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

IL
NY
MA
CO
NC
DC
LA
TX
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 35% of Sweetwater Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Sweetwater Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 31% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 12 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$1.3M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+2%

Still filing today

92%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $280k · revenue +84%
  • PI
    Partners in Housing Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +38%
  • MM
    MARION MEDICAL MISSION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $95k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • SB
    SAINT BERNARD PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
  • HISPANIC FEDERATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +187%
  • TP
    THE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -76%
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
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
2
Project Concern International

Pci is a global development organization that drives innovation from the ground up to enhance health end hunger, overcome hardship and advance women & girls-resulting in meaningful and measurable change in people's lives.

International
3
Pueblo Rescue Mission

Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.

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4
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
7
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
8
World Renew

Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…

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9
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
10
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
11
Humanity for Relief and Development Inc

The Organization is a nonprofit organization on a mission to build sustainable bakeries and kitchens around the world, providing free daily bread and warm, nutritious meals to underserved communities fostering hope while empowering…

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $125,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN I…MARION MEDICAL MISSION: $95,000 · InternationalMARION MEDICAL MISSIONPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $66,000 · InternationalPENCILS OF PROMISE INCO…Compassion International Incorporated: $15,000 · InternationalPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $280,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A N…THE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $10,000 · HealthSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $125,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURS…Pioneer Bible Translators: $90,000 · ReligionPioneer Bible Tr…Partners in Housing Inc: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterPartners in Hou…Project Restart Inc: $52,000 · Housing & ShelterProject Restart…KNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION: $177,000 · Youth DevelopmentKNIGHTS OF HE…WEDONTWASTE INC: $87,000 · Food & NutritionWEDONTWASTE …FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF…The Food Bank for Larimer County: $20,000 · Food & NutritionThe Food Ban…CARE SHARE FOOD BANK OF SOUTH CO: $50,000 · OtherSAINT BERNARD PROJECT: $17,000 · OtherOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherRICHARD LAMBERT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $17,000 · Other
International$301,000Health$290,000Religion$215,000Housing & Shelter$202,000Youth Development$177,000Food & Nutrition$157,000Other$114,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $280,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION: $177,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetPartners in Housing Inc: $150,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARION MEDICAL MISSION: $95,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPioneer Bible Translators: $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $87,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $66,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetProject Restart Inc: $52,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRICHARD LAMBERT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sweetwater Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sweetwater Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of 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 19 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home