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Fao Schwarz Family Fdn

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.

$438k
Granted FY2022
41
Grants FY2022
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States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$107kEducation$71kEnvironment$38kScience & Tech$32kHealth$8kRecreation & Sports$8kReligion$5kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2022 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 41 grants below total $304,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $437,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $133,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k30 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $229k
$2,500
Median grant
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States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUMPSTART$30,000
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$30,000
BARNES MUSEUM$30,000
MILTON ACADEMY$25,000
PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATE$19,500
PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATE$17,500
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$17,000
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK$17,000
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK$15,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$15,000
ROCKY HILL SCHOOL$12,500
LASELL UNIVERSITY$7,500
MCLEAN HOSPITAL$7,500
CITIZEN SCHOOLS$5,000
COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER$5,000
02Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2022–2022.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2022 to 2022, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATE: $37,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATEMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $34,500 · OtherMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORKTRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $33,000 · OtherTRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDMILTON ACADEMY: $30,000 · OtherMILTON ACADEMYBARNES MUSEUM: $30,000 · OtherBARNES MUSEUMJUMPSTART: $30,000 · OtherJUMPSTARTMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $30,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF SCIENCEROCKY HILL SCHOOL: $12,500 · Other+26 more: $67,000 · Other+26 more
Other$304,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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Find your warmest path to Fao Schwarz Family Fdn 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.

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 34 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $409k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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