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Sweitzer Foundation at a glance

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Sweitzer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$138kEducation$133kHuman Services$97kAnimals$48kFood & Nutrition$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kHealth$31kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LADIES AUXILIARY OF THE OSMAN TEMPLE$8,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$5,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$5,000
CAN DO CANINES$5,000
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK$2,500
ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
ST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS$2,500
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$2,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$2,500
PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $5k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $2k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS MINNESOTA REGION: $6k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS MINNESOTA REGION: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS MINNESOTA REGION: $3k → 11%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$476k · 17 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
18

Total granted

$476k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+30%

Still filing today

71%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    7× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +7%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    8× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +96%
  • CD
    CAN DO CANINES
    7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • LA
    LADIES AUXILIARY OF OSMAN
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • LA
    LADIES AUXILIARY OF OSMAN TEMPLE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • HG
    HIGHER GROUND EMERGENCY SHELTER & CATH C
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Achieve Twin Cities

As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, achieve twin cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota…

Youth Development
2
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
3
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
4
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
5
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
6
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
7
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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8
Youthlink

To be a community in which all youth, without regard to their living situation, have an equal opportunity to pursue and achieve their goals and dreams. the agency does this by supporting, resourcing, and empowering young people on their…

Human Services
9
Minnesota Community Health Worker Alliance

The minnesota community health worker alliance builds community and systems capacity for better health through the integration of community health worker (chw) strategies. our vision is equitable and optimal outcomes for all communities.…

Health
10
College of St Scholastica Inc

Shaped by the catholic benedictine heritage, the college of st. scholastica provides intellectual and moral preparation for responsible living and meaningful work. in conjunction with this mission statement, the college's vision statement…

Education
11
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
12
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 38 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LADIES AUXILIARY OF THE OSMAN TEMPLE: $78,000 · OtherLADIES AUXILIARY OF THE OSMAN TEMPLESALVATION ARMY: $47,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCAN DO CANINES: $33,000 · OtherCAN DO CANINESCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $27,880 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESAMERICAN RED CROSS: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $20,000 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSION INCLADIES AUXILIARY OF OSMAN: $15,000 · OtherLADIES AUXILIARY OF OSMAN TEMPLE: $15,000 · Other+15 more: $50,500 · Other+15 moreTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $85,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE U…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $27,500 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INCPEACEMAKER MINNESOTA: $7,500 · EducationPEACEMAKER MINNESOTAEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $39,000 · Food & NutritionSPINAL CORD SOCIETY: $18,500 · HealthTREEHOUSE INC: $7,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS: $2,500 · HealthPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 · Human ServicesDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $2,500 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $12,500 · Community ImprovementAnimal Humane Society: $12,500 · Animals
Other$311,380Education$127,500Food & Nutrition$39,000Health$31,000Human Services$30,500Community Improvement$12,500Animals$12,500

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $39,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $33,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $27,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSPINAL CORD SOCIETY: $18,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEACEMAKER MINNESOTA: $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ST PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEWGATE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH FOR RESOURCES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPINAL CORD SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACEMAKER MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds EAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE ST PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds NEWGATE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS ↗
  • Who funds DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK ↗
  • Who funds REACH FOR RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE ↗

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 Richard M Schulze…Mightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Warren FoundationThe Walser FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Richard M Schulze Family FoundationMN17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Sweitzer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sweitzer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 38 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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