· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| NORWOOD VILLAGE GREEN CONCERT | $3,000 |
| NORTHERN NEW YORK COMMUNITY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -2% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sweetgrass Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sweetgrass Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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