· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPSTREAM USA | $500,000 |
| FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM | $150,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $150,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $125,000 |
| PIONEER INSTITUTE | $125,000 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $100,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN | $75,000 |
| IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA - JACKSONVILLE AND CENTRAL FL | $75,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHER QUALITY | $75,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA - MASSACHUSETTS | $75,000 |
| AUDOBONS CORKSCREW SWAMP SANCTUARY | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON | $45,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
47 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA8× · 2017–2024 · $785k · revenue +561%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $675k · revenue +75%- PIPIONEER INSTITUTE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2017 · $100k
- CSCOTTING SCHOOL INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHER QUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds UP EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AVOW Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Up Education Network — 22% of income from government
- Massachusetts Charter Public School Association Inc — 15% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cotting School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.