California · Private foundation
The Sweazey 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.
- $125k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Sweazey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $120k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $120k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $102k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $92k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $119k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $76k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $100k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $112k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance | $212,100 | 8 | 6% |
| Youth Tennis Advantage | $178,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Kqed Inc | $99,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Olympic Club Foundation | $38,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Marshmallow Minds | $32,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Children's Health Council Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sonoma Valley Film Festival | $23,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Coastside | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Global | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance | $212,100 | 8 | 6% |
| Youth Tennis Advantage | $178,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Kqed Inc | $99,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Olympic Club Foundation | $38,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Marshmallow Minds | $32,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Children's Health Council Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sonoma Valley Film Festival | $23,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Coastside | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Global | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Insead Management Education Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Art of Yoga Project | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Menlo Park-Atherton Education Foundation | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $2,030 | 1 | 0% |
| Atherton Police Officers Assn | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Bay Area Cancer Connections | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($157k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sweazey Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Olympic Club Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About The Sweazey Foundation
- How much does The Sweazey Foundation give?
- The Sweazey Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $125,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Sweazey Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (27%), Recreation & Sports (24%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are The Sweazey Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance ($212k), Youth Tennis Advantage ($179k), Kqed Inc ($99k).
- Does The Sweazey Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sweazey 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 Sweazey Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is The Sweazey Foundation based?
- The Sweazey Foundation is based in CA.
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