· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| POWERHOUSE ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| MONTEFIORE NYACK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RUNYON CANYON | $10,000 |
| FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER | $9,150 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE | $7,750 |
| WORLD MONUMENTS FUND | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH ↗
- Who funds Eco Art Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL CANYON LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds PEACE BY TOURISM INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Montefiore Nyack Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 1898 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David Schwartz Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David Schwartz Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Two River Theatre Company Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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