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Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$983
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITERARY SOCIETY OF THE SOUTHWEST$15,500
BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART- NORTH WESTERN$3,910
SANDRA O'CONNOR INSTITUTE$3,000
92ND ST Y$2,500
VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,000
VISION TO LEARN$1,600
Individual grant recipient$1,500
ESTANCIA FOUNDATION$1,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$1,000
DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN$1,000
JUDITH LEIBER MUSEUM$500
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL$402
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER$225
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $11k) 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.

area typical 10%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $10k → 17%ESTANCIA FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
AZ
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$347k · 13 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
20

Total granted

$347k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

69%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2018–2021 · $134k · revenue +33%
  • TA
    THE ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $31k · revenue +10% · 28% of their budget
  • TV
    THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER
    4× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +93%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • PS
    PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -11%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
11
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
12
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Science Center; the most unlike its peers is The Translational Genomics Research Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 44 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
16/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northwestern University: $133,619 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern UniversityPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $67,500 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX ART MUSEUMTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $21,425 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC…PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA SCIENCE CENTERTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INCSUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $42,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLITERARY SOCIETY OF THE SOUTHWEST: $25,500 · OtherLITERARY SOCIETY OF THE SOUT…POLLOCK KRASNER HOUSE: $10,000 · OtherPOLLOCK KRASNER HOUSEBLOCK MUSEUM OF ART- NORTH WESTERN: $3,910 · OtherLIFT INC: $10,000 · OtherLIFT INCJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 · Other+14 more: $19,967 · Other+14 moreARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $12,068 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · EducationALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $4,000 · EducationTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $3,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,250 · Education+3 more: $1,750 · EducationTHE ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION: $31,000 · PhilanthropyCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · HealthVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARN: $1,600 · HealthMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE ESTANCIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human Services
Recreation & Sports$133,619Arts & Culture$127,425Other$116,877Education$33,068Philanthropy$31,000Health$15,600Human Services$11,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 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
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.

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 E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellen Philips Schwarzman Katz Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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