Minnesota · Private foundation
Sweitzer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $68k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Sweitzer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 17 | $68k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $66k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $70k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $84k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $74k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $75k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $60k | 54% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $68k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota | $85,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $47,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $39,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Can Do Canines | $33,000 | 7 | 0% |
| College Possible Inc | $27,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Spinal Cord Society | $18,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Project for Pride in Living Inc | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Neighborhood House | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Animal Humane Society | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota | $85,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $47,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $39,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Can Do Canines | $33,000 | 7 | 0% |
| College Possible Inc | $27,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Spinal Cord Society | $18,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Project for Pride in Living Inc | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Neighborhood House | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Animal Humane Society | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Treehouse Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Peacemaker Minnesota | $7,500 | 3 | 1% |
| East Side Learning Center | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The St Paul Conservatory of Music | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Newgate Education and Research Center Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Health Care Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| St Marys Health Clinics | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Division of Indian Work | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Reach for Resources Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornerstone | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($202k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sweitzer 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.
Open a dossier: The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Warren Foundation · The Walser Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sweitzer Foundation
- How much does Sweitzer Foundation give?
- Sweitzer Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $68,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Sweitzer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Education (23%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Sweitzer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota ($85k), Salvation Army ($47k), Second Harvest Heartland ($39k).
- Does Sweitzer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sweitzer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sweitzer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Sweitzer Foundation based?
- Sweitzer Foundation is based in MN.
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