About Sweeney Family Foundation
The Sweeney Family Foundation concentrates its giving on local Chicago homelessness and housing-related organizations while occasionally funding high-profile international humanitarian relief. Most grants are directed to direct service and community organizations in neighborhoods like Washington Park, with repeat support to housing-focused groups. Their giving balances place-based investments in shelter, tenant support and community empowerment with occasional one-off gifts to well-known global medical relief groups.
Focus Areas
Chicago homelessness shelters and outreach (e.g., The Night Ministry, The Cathedral Center)Affordable housing preservation and tenant services in Chicago (repeat support for Housing Opportunities Maintenance)Neighborhood organizing and community empowerment in Washington Park (Rooted and Rising Washington Park)International emergency medical relief (Doctors Without Borders)
Who They Fund
women and families (including shelters and survivors of domestic violence)low-income Chicago residentschildren and youth (including boys and girls in city schools)
About Sweeney Family Foundation
A 2025 $30,000 grant to Doctors Without Borders stands out in the Sweeney Family Foundation’s recent record, because it sits alongside a much denser pattern of support for Chicago homelessness, housing stability, and community-based services. The foundation’s giving is small in scale but consistent in purpose, with annual grants of $306,000 and typical awards clustered between $5,000 and $10,000. Most of its recent support goes to direct-service organizations working with low-income residents, women and families, and people facing housing instability. In Chicago, that includes repeated funding for Housing Opportunities Maintenance, which appears in both 2024 and 2025, and support for The Night Ministry, a shelter and outreach provider. The foundation also backs neighborhood-rooted work in Washington Park through Rooted and Rising Washington Pk, showing interest in community empowerment alongside emergency assistance. Beyond Chicago, it has also funded women’s shelter, domestic violence, foster care, and addiction-treatment programs in Milwaukee, plus occasional mission and international humanitarian grants.
What Sweeney Family Foundation Funds
Housing and homelessness are the clearest throughline in the foundation’s recent grants. It gave $25,000 to The Night Ministry for homelessness in 2024, then returned with $25,000 in the same year and $20,000 in 2025 to Housing Opportunities Maintenance for general support. In violence-prevention and survivor services, the foundation awarded $10,000 to Resilience and $10,000 to Connections for Abused Women Child, both in 2023. Family and youth services also appear: it gave $10,000 to Wellpoint Formerly Saint A for foster care, and $5,000 to Chicago Jesuit Academy for a city school serving boys and girls. Health-related community work shows up in grants to Centro San Bonifacio, including $5,000 for its health promoter program in Chicago.
How Sweeney Family Foundation Gives
Typical grant size is tightly grouped: the 25th percentile is $5,000, the median is $7,500, and the 75th percentile is $10,000. That pattern points to a foundation making modest, project-oriented awards rather than large institutional grants. The recent record also shows repeat support to some organizations, especially Housing Opportunities Maintenance and Centro San Bonifacio, which received grants in multiple years. By contrast, several gifts are one-off awards, including support for humanitarian relief and select mission projects. The foundation is a family foundation and does not fund individuals or program-related investments.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$2.4M
Total Assets
$0
Total Revenue
$75K
Total Expenses
$2.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $5K and $10K, with a median of $8K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$8K
75th Percentile
$10K
Geographic Reach
Regional3 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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