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The Sweetgrass Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$293k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Environment$595kEducation$206kInternational$183kYouth Development$98kAnimals$81kCommunity Improvement$18kArts & Culture$18kCivil Rights$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$6,703
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ESCUDILLA INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
OKEFENOKEE SWAMP PARK INC$25,000
THE MOM FOUNDATION - NEPAL$25,000
PORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION$15,000
ECOLOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND$10,000
EL PORVENIR$10,000
CHRISTODORA INC$10,000
WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT$10,000
AFRICAN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUND$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
UNITE THE PARKS$7,500
NATUN GUATEMALA$7,000
GENERAL MOVEMENT FOR RURAL EDUCATION AND ENVIRONMENT - GREEN$6,703
REWILD$6,500
02The need
03

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 US giving — 70% of grant dollars ($957k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($415k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 8%GREEN LENTS: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US — 30% of all-years giving ($415k)

8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Nepal$312k · 10 grants
Brazil$30k · 2 grants
India$22k · 4 grants
Kenya$22k · 4 grants
South Africa$12k · 2 grants
Costa Rica$8k · 1 grant
Ukraine$8k · 1 grant
Cameroon$3k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$869k · 30 repeat orgs$500k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
48

Total granted

$869k
$297k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+19%

Still filing today

77%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • EN
    EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +20%
  • RC
    RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +107%
  • RR
    ROUND RIVER CONSERVATION STUDIES
    2× · 2021–2023 · $32k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • ECOTRUST
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • RC
    RAINFOREST CONNECTION
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -87%
  • EW
    ENDANGERED WILDLIFE TRUST
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
3
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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4
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
5
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
6
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
7
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
8
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
9
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
10
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
11
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
12
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rewild and the most unlike its peers is Amextra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Local Food System Organizat…Community FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsChristian Youth Camps
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%44%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/70
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,495

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.

04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 93 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/70
Grantees still filing
43/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MOM FOUNDATION - NEPAL — $178,000 · OtherTHE MOM FOUNDATION - NEPALTHE MOM FOUNDATION - NEPAL (FORMERLY NDSDP) — $121,000 · OtherTHE MOM FOUNDATION - NEPAL (FORMERLY NDSDP)Individual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientABEVILA — $30,000 · OtherECOTRUST — $25,000 · OtherOKEFENOKEE SWAMP PARK INC — $25,000 · Other+38 more — $244,161 · Other+38 moreEAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · EnvironmentEAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INCEscudilla International Conservation — $50,000 · EnvironmentEscudilla International Conserva…ECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND — $40,000 · EnvironmentECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUNDEarth Island Institute Inc — $31,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute IncCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INCGEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS — $20,000 · EnvironmentCASCADIA WILD — $15,300 · EnvironmentRIVER NETWORK — $15,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO WATER TRUST — $15,000 · EnvironmentGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC — $13,000 · Environment+14 more — $93,500 · Environment+14 moreROUND RIVER CONSERVATION STUDIES — $32,000 · AnimalsREWILD — $19,500 · AnimalsALASKA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $13,280 · AnimalsAFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND INC — $9,270 · AnimalsAfrican Wildlife Conservation Fund Inc — $7,500 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $7,500 · AnimalsBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA — $6,000 · AnimalsCOEXISTENCE STORY INC — $5,000 · Animals+1 more — $3,000 · AnimalsMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC — $37,000 · InternationalNATUN GUATEMALA — $14,000 · InternationalEL PORVENIR — $10,000 · InternationalWILD TOMORROW FUND — $8,900 · InternationalACATE AMAZON CONSERVATION INC — $7,500 · InternationalAMAZON CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $7,500 · InternationalGroundswell International Inc — $5,000 · International+1 more — $3,000 · InternationalRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $45,000 · PhilanthropyChristodora Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSONOMA EARTH SCHOOL — $10,000 · Arts & CultureWISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Arts & CultureWilderness Youth Project Inc — $22,800 · Youth DevelopmentHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$673,161Environment$387,800Animals$103,050International$92,900Philanthropy$55,000Arts & Culture$31,500Youth Development$25,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetEscudilla International Conservation — $50,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND — $40,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC — $37,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROUND RIVER CONSERVATION STUDIES — $32,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetECOTRUST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOKEFENOKEE SWAMP PARK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc — $22,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS — $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetREWILD — $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER NETWORK — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEARTH LAW CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRAINFOREST CONNECTION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO WATER TRUST — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATUN GUATEMALA — $14,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALASKA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $13,280 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC — $13,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWALKING MOUNTAINS — $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE CYCLE INC — $12,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetChristodora Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL PORVENIR — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITE THE PARKS — $10,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA EARTH SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLYNN CANAL CONSERVATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetAFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND INC — $9,270 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWILD TOMORROW FUND — $8,900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACATE AMAZON CONSERVATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetAfrican Wildlife Conservation Fund Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMAZON CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAMEXTRA INC — $7,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGEORGIA ORGANICS INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBuckminster Fuller Institute — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGroundswell International Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAKES CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

PatagoniaorgNational Fish and Wil…Clif Family FoundationRsf Social Finance IncClimate Conservation …National Geographic S…Marin Community Found…Leonardo Dicaprio Fou…New England Biolabs F…Turner Foundation IncImpactassetsincResources Legacy Fund
PatagoniaorgCA39.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation · National Geographic Society · Marin Community Foundation · Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation · New England Biolabs Foundation · Turner Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Resources Legacy Fund

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 Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Green Lents — 38% of income from government
  • African People & Wildlife Fund Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
  • Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Sweetgrass Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Sweetgrass Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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