· Private foundation
The Sweetgrass 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSENA ARTS AND THEATER | $12,500 |
| TRADITIONAL ARTS IN UPSTATE NEW | $10,000 |
| FREDERIC REMINGTON ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| MORRISTOWN GATEWAY MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN NEW YORK | $4,000 |
| NORWOOD VILLAGE GREEN CONCERT | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| NORTHERN NEW YORK COMMUNITY | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -2% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TATRADITIONAL ARTS IN UPSTATE NEW YORK IN9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +56%
- NCNORTH COUNTRY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM4× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +814%
- TITHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CPCANTON PARK & FOUNTAIN FUNDone grant, 2018 · $20k
- OHOGDENSBURG HISTORY MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CCCANTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +5%
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 organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
The History Center in Tompkins County, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to preserve and encourage access to its unique collections, while designing learning experiences and services that create opportunities for people to…
The purpose of the organization is to collect and preserve historical and cultural materials pertaining to the hudson highlands, the west point foundry and putnam county; and to make such materials available to the public.
To promote public interest and participation in the preservation of the rich cultural heritage of Washington County, New York.
Celebrate and honor the historic traditions, innovation and creativity of the people of pottawatomie county through responsible collection, preservation, and exhibition from a publicly accessible museum of historical artifacts.
Our mission is to ensure that the history of smithtown township and our long island heritage is restored, preserved and interpreted for the education and enjoyment of current and future generations. we seek to strengthen the ties to our…
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
To preserve historic sites, artifacts and historical knowledge of Schoharie County
Preservation & maintenance collection
Promote local history of seneca falls and senecs county.
To collect, preserve, display, interpret and operate artifacts and information from the transportation history of Upstate New York.
The Historical Society of Rockland County is a museum and educational organization dedicated to engaging diverse audiences in a dynamic dialogue about the rich historical heritage of the county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Lawrence Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clark House Preservation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 38 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 TRADITIONAL ARTS IN UPSTATE NEW YORK IN ↗
- Who funds FREDERIC REMINGTON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OGDENSBURG COMMAND PERFORMANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MORRISTOWN GATEWAY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CANTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Clark House Preservation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GARDENSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds POTSDAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds HEUVELTON HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Northern New York Community Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sweetgrass 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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