California · Private foundation
Gil Schwartz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $44k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Gil Schwartz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $44k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $37k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $50k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $63k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $190k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Corporation of Yaddo | $160,000 | 2 | 3% |
| National Poetry Series Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Henry Street Settlement | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Tank Center for Sonic Arts Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Foundation for Independent Artists Inc | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Music in Place | $11,325 | 4 | 1% |
| Prader-Willi Homes of California | $10,000 | 4 | 2% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| God's Love We Deliver Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Corporation of Yaddo | $160,000 | 2 | 3% |
| National Poetry Series Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Henry Street Settlement | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Tank Center for Sonic Arts Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Foundation for Independent Artists Inc | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Music in Place | $11,325 | 4 | 1% |
| Prader-Willi Homes of California | $10,000 | 4 | 2% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| God's Love We Deliver Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Geffen Playhouse Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Literature to Life Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Southern Mississippi | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| O'Hanlon Center for the Arts Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gil Schwartz Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Gil Schwartz Foundation
- How much does Gil Schwartz Foundation give?
- Gil Schwartz Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $43,825 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Gil Schwartz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Human Services (9%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are Gil Schwartz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Corporation of Yaddo ($160k), National Poetry Series Inc ($50k), Henry Street Settlement ($25k).
- Does Gil Schwartz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gil Schwartz Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gil Schwartz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Gil Schwartz Foundation based?
- Gil Schwartz Foundation is based in CA.
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