California · Private foundation
Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $35M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 96
- Grants FY2024
- 87
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 53 to 87
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $542M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 93 | $33M | 41% |
| FY2023 | 87 | $32M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 83 | $29M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 86 | $56M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 85 | $27M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 72 | $36M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 53 | $19M | 36% |
| FY2017 | 57 | $28M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tipping Point Community | $33,918,847 | 8 | 22% |
| Children's Health Council Inc | $32,300,000 | 1 | 52% |
| Cambiar Education | $10,500,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund | $8,243,110 | 7 | 2% |
| Child Mind Institute Inc | $7,825,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Innovate Public Schools | $7,240,614 | 8 | 22% |
| Silicon Schools Fund Inc | $6,403,833 | 8 | 16% |
| Teach for America Inc | $5,520,245 | 5 | 1% |
| New Leaders Inc | $5,100,000 | 8 | 4% |
| New Schools Fund | $4,405,001 | 8 | 2% |
Show all 178 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 168 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Gates Foundation · New Schools Fund · City Fund · Silicon Schools Fund Inc · Tipping Point Community · The San Francisco Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Marin Community Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation with peer funders
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About Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
- How much does Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation give?
- Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation reported 96 grants totaling $34,755,389 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 87 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Health (21%), International (13%).
- Who are Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tipping Point Community ($34M), Children's Health Council Inc ($32M), Cambiar Education ($11M).
- Does Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles and Helen Schwab 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 Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Walton Family Foundation Inc, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, Gates Foundation.
- Where is Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation based?
- Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation is based in CA.
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