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The Sievert Family Foundation at a glance

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The Sievert Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$332k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$76k
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$880kEducation$717kHealth$102kRecreation & Sports$93kCommunity Improvement$80kArts & Culture$56kHuman Services$48kPhilanthropy$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $186k
$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$76,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$60,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$50,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$25,000
GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$20,000
CHRISTIAN BUSINESS ROUND TABLE INC$15,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF NORTHVILLE$15,000
REACHING INDIANS MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC$10,000
JOHN WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$10,000
BETHANY CHAPEL$5,000
CENTER FOR THE ARTS LAKE SUNAPEE REGION$5,000
CALVIN UNIVERSITY$3,000
YAMPA VALLEY AUTISM PROGRAM$2,750
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%DONNIE EDWARDS BEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%INSIGHT SEMINARS INC: $500 → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500 → 13%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS SERVICES INC: $3k → 15%REALITY CHECK INC: $1k → 9%INSIGHT SEMINARS INC: $500 → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS SERVICES INC: $1k → 15%FAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS FOUNDATION: $750 → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS SERVICES INC: $500 → 15%FAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS FOUNDATION: $750 → 14%FAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN & TEENAGERS INC: $2k → 8%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $2k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $2k → 9%CRANBERRY SUNSET FARM INC: $3k → 8%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $1k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $1k → 9%GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING: $500 → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $750 → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of The Sievert Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Sievert Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 78 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

78 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
56

Total granted

$1.8M
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+28%

Still filing today

65%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • LP
    Luis Palau Association
    5× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +39%
  • NOVI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +96%
  • YV
    Yampa Valley Autism Program
    9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +16%
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • OH
    ORCHARD HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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.

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Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
2
The Institute On Religion and Public Life Inc

The institute on religion and public life is an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational 501(c)(3) organization. the institute's mission is to articulate a governing consensus that supports: (see schedule o)- a religiously…

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3
New Name Counseling and Teaching Center Inc

Our mission is to glorify god and serve our community by assisting people in finding freedom from their past, peace in their present, and hope for their future.

Religion
4
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
5
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

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8
Gordon College

Gordon college strives to graduate men & women distinguished by (continued on schedule o) (continuation) intellectual maturity and christian character, committed to lives of service and prepared for leadership worldwide.

Education
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization

The lausanne movement exists to activate the body of christ to accelerate global mission together through convening global influencers, creating biblically grounded missional content, fostering catalytic collaboration, and equipping…

Religion
11
Purehope Coalition

Our mission is to shape a world free of sexual exploitation and brokenness by providing christian solutions in a sexualized culture.continued on schedule owe equip parents and college students to lead a lifestyle of prayer, understanding,…

Civil Rights
12
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adult & Teen Challenge New England and New Jersey Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gathering of the Tribes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 141 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/88
Grantees still filing
61/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $337,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHYALE UNIVERSITY: $245,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYJOHN WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $120,000 · OtherJOHN WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHGRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $65,300 · OtherNOVI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF NORTHVILLE: $50,000 · Other+90 more: $395,200 · Other+90 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $135,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLE…KING SCHOOL INC: $34,500 · EducationKING SCHOOL INCAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $27,500 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE…THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE ACTUARIAL F…NOVI ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $22,500 · EducationNOVI ATHLETIC B…The American College: $15,000 · EducationCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $13,000 · Education+6 more: $12,750 · EducationLuis Palau Association: $115,000 · ReligionLuis Palau …REACHING INDIANS MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $80,000 · ReligionREACHING IN…+10 more: $24,000 · Religion+10 moreYampa Valley Autism Program: $42,150 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE POLICY RESEARCH: $13,250 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $7,250 · Human ServicesHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $4,000 · Human Services+8 more: $10,250 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $20,500 · Arts & CultureGATHERING OF THE TRIBES: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: $9,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $750 · Arts & CultureCHRISTIAN BUSINESS ROUND TABLE INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,397,500Education$285,250Religion$219,000Human Services$76,900Arts & Culture$50,750Community Improvement$40,000Philanthropy$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLuis Palau Association: $115,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetREACHING INDIANS MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $80,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetNOVI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetYampa Valley Autism Program: $42,150 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN BUSINESS ROUND TABLE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetKING SCHOOL INC: $34,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetNOVI ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $22,500 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $20,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGATHERING OF THE TRIBES: $20,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetInterstitial Cystitis Association of America Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetThe American College: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE POLICY RESEARCH: $13,250 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOREVER INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW LIFE MINISTRIES OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHARMONY HOME MINISTRY: $8,900 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetARIA COVEY FOUNDATION INC: $8,750 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetPTSA CONNECTICUT INC: $8,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetDUO DUO ANIMAL WELFARE PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $7,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEco Defense Group: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSCAPE CENTER FOR PERSONAL VOCATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetENGAGE WEST AFRICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $3,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIDDEN MANNA MINISTRIES: $3,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFarmsteads of New England Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM STAFFING INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMULE DEER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGates Recovery Center: $2,750 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCRANBERRY SUNSET FARM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE NEW ENGLAND AND NEW JERSEY INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID'S TENT USA INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetABANDONED PET PROJECT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVISION INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS: $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budget1269 CAFE MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
  • Who funds REACHING INDIANS MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NOVI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Yampa Valley Autism Program ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN BUSINESS ROUND TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds KING SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NOVI ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
  • Who funds GATHERING OF THE TRIBES ↗
  • Who funds Interstitial Cystitis Association of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds The American College ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOREVER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE MINISTRIES OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY HOME MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds ARIA COVEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DREAMCATCHERS NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
  • Who funds PTSA CONNECTICUT INC ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Great NH Restaurants …Norwin S and Elizabet…Cecil B Day Foundatio…Arthur Jr Dobles & Ol…The Horne Family Foun…Donors Trust IncPoint32health Foundat…Agnes M Lindsay TrustEversource Energy Fou…The Intuit FoundationChristian Community F…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH19.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Great NH Restaurants Charitable Trust · Norwin S and Elizabeth N Bean Foundati · Cecil B Day Foundation Inc · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · The Horne Family Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Point32health Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Intuit Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Coonamessett Farm Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Living Independently Forever Inc: 66% of income from government
  • The Midas Collaborative Inc: 39% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
  • Boston Korean Adoptees Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Riverview School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 141 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home