Texas · Private foundation
Sword and Spoon Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $65k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $617k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Sword and Spoon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $63k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $20k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $34k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $121k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $66k | 78% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $145k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $98k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $212k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sword & Spoon Workshop Inc | $102,490 | 3 | 100% |
| Pioneer Institute Inc | $92,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Christianity Today International | $71,200 | 3 | 1% |
| Leadership Transformation Inc | $52,500 | 5 | 3% |
| AND Campaign Inc | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Stand Up Republic Foundation Inc | $29,941 | 1 | 15% |
| Think of US | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Trinity Grace Church | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Baseball Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sword and Spoon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Boston Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Sword and Spoon Foundation
- How much does Sword and Spoon Foundation give?
- Sword and Spoon Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $64,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sword and Spoon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Education (14%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Sword and Spoon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sword & Spoon Workshop Inc ($102k), Pioneer Institute Inc ($93k), Christianity Today International ($71k).
- Does Sword and Spoon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sword and Spoon 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 Sword and Spoon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Servant Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Sword and Spoon Foundation based?
- Sword and Spoon Foundation is based in TX.
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