Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Sidney a Swensrud 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.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $31M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 23 | $2.0M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $1.9M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $1.8M | 6% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $1.5M | 9% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $1.5M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $1.8M | 17% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $1.7M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upstream USA Inc | $1,950,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Federation for American Immigration Reform | $1,500,000 | 8 | 4% |
| The Conservancy of Southwest Florida | $785,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $675,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pioneer Institute Inc | $650,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Naples Botanical Garden Inc | $630,000 | 8 | 1% |
| National Council on Teacher Quality Inc | $575,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $527,754 | 2 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $500,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Epiphany School Inc | $400,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 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 · The Lynch Foundation · Barr Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Longfield Family Foundation Inc · George H & Jane a Mifflin Memorial Fund · City Fund · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation
- How much does The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation give?
- The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $1,985,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (27%), Civil Rights (13%).
- Who are The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Upstream USA Inc ($1.9M), Federation for American Immigration Reform ($1.5M), The Conservancy of Southwest Florida ($785k).
- Does The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sidney a Swensrud 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 The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, The Lynch Foundation, Barr Foundation.
- Where is The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation based?
- The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation is based in MA.
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