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Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz 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.

$34k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
57%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,500
Organizations funded a year
4 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$983
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEmploymentFood & NutritionOther
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 arriving13$34k77%
FY20247$43k57%
FY20236$6k17%
FY20224$13k0%
FY20217$15k43%
FY202015$65k80%
FY201913$127k62%
FY20185$159kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$159kRecreation & Sports$134kPhilanthropy$42kHealth$29kEducation$22kHuman Services$14kScience & Tech$10kInternational$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
AZ
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($96k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwestern University: $133,619 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Art Museum: $67,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Atlantic Golf Club Foundation: $31,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetThe Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater: $21,425 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $12,068 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStony Brook Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMount Sinai Health System Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Symphony Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Science Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLift Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Parrish Art Museum Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChild Mind Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSusquehanna Art Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAllen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Windward School: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValleywise Health Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Translational Genomics Research Institute: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVision to Learn: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $1,130 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDesert Botanical Garden Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKappa Kappa Gamma Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Estancia Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Caddie Scholarship Fund Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $185 over 1y, 0.0% 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 28.

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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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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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About Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc

How much does Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc give?
Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $34,137 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Recreation & Sports (29%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Northwestern University ($134k), Phoenix Art Museum ($68k), The Atlantic Golf Club Foundation ($31k).
Does Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc 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 Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc based?
Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation 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 44 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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