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Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$71k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesEducationInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$16k22%
FY20249$16k22%
FY20239$16k22%
FY202212$18k25%
FY20219$16k33%
FY20206$14k0%
FY201911$14k18%
FY201811$15k36%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$80kYouth Development$27kHealth$15kPublic Benefit$6kEducation$5kHuman Services$4kInternational$250

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
CT
CA
CO
AZ
TN

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($47k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCreative Youth Productions Inc: $27,000 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetThe Fire Department Theatre Company Inc: $24,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetMusicians on Call Inc: $13,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Music Conservatory of Westchester Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGuitars For Vets Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChild and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVeteran Tickets Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEducation Through Music Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Music Fund: $1,200 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Whitney Players Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChild's Play Touring Theatre: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Legacy Theatre Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $373 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSister Cities Essex Haiti Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY9.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc?

Find your warmest path to Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music 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.

About Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc

How much does Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc give?
Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc reported 9 grants totaling $16,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Youth Development (20%), Health (11%).
Who are Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Creative Youth Productions Inc ($27k), The Fire Department Theatre Company Inc ($24k), Musicians on Call Inc ($13k).
Does Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc based?
Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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