· Private foundation
David Schwartz Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $622k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $227,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $150,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $142,857 |
| NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION | $102,500 |
| DIA ART FOUNDATION | $49,000 |
| AANT | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE | $10,145 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH | $10,000 |
| POWERHOUSE ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RUNYON CANYON | $10,000 |
| MONTEFIORE NYACK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER | $9,150 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE | $7,750 |
| WORLD MONUMENTS FUND | $7,500 |
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 (FY21–22, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +27% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC6× · 2019–2025 · $493k · revenue +37%- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $416k · revenue +163%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $270k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- CFCITIZENS FOR LOS ANGELES WILDLIFE INCone grant, 2024 · $219k · revenue 0% · 49% of their budget
- EAEco Art Project Incone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue 0%
- WCWEILL CORNELL MEDICINEone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Archives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Peace By Tourism 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
82 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. 82 of the 149 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 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR LOS ANGELES WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LYFORD CAY CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Eco Art Project Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL CANYON LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE BY TOURISM INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · California Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Gardener Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The David Geffen Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust
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 David Schwartz 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Two River Theatre Company Inc — 0% 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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