· Private foundation
Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of CHARLES SCHWARTZ FOUNDATION FOR MUSIC INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CREATIVE YOUTH PRODUCTIONS | $3,000 |
| MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER | $3,000 |
| SALON SANCTUARY CONCERTS | $3,000 |
| GUITARS FOR VETS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| THE JACOB AUGUST REIS SCHOOL | $500 |
| KATE THEATER | $250 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +50% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CYCreative Youth Productions Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +516%
- MOMUSICIANS ON CALL INC6× · 2018–2023 · $13k · revenue +161%
- TMTHE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
- CMCHILDRENS MUSIC FUNDone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +13%
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.
To enhance young peoples minds through education, application and exploration of the Performing Arts. It further strives to provide each child with a feeling of self-identity and purpose.
Produce live professional theater through Shakespeare Festival and educational programs for both children and adults.
Entertainment
Inspired by the intelligence and emotional wisdom of young people, we create professional theatre for youth and families, foster inclusive community, and nurture meaningful learning through the arts. We provide these experiences through…
OCCT provides a positive learning experience for children age 5-19 and their families in the many aspects of the performing arts.
Instilling a desire in young people to learn to participate in live performances of song and dance.
We provide professional triple-threat training (acting, dance, and vocal performance), taught by industry professionals who have been where our students dream of going. In a challenging and supportive environment, we create the opportunity…
Youth theater for youth education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Musicians On Call Inc and the most unlike its peers is Creative Youth Productions 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 25 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 Creative Youth Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds The Fire Department Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS ON CALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Guitars For Vets Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds VETERAN TICKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSIC FUND ↗
- Who funds The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHITNEY PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds Child's Play Touring Theatre ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC ↗
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.
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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 Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Creative Youth Productions Inc — 85% of income from government
- Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 55% of income from government
- The Legacy Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
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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