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Gil Schwartz Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Arts & Culture$293kHuman Services$35kFood & Nutrition$30kEducation$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kMembership Benefit$3kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Poetry Series$10,000
World Central Kitchen Inc$5,000
Henry Street Settlement$5,000
Literature to Life Inc$5,000
The Tank Center for Sonic Arts$5,000
San Francisco-Marin Food Bank$5,000
Music In Place$3,825
FDN for Independent Artists$2,500
Prader-Willi Homes of California$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Henry Street Settlement: $5k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $5k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $5k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $5k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$334k · 9 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$334k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+7%

Still filing today

89%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthMembership BenefitFood & NutritionInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NP
    NATIONAL POETRY SERIES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +9%
  • HS
    HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +1%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • NC
    National Children's Theatre
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
  • GL
    GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +31%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +7%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
3
Artists Space Inc

A contemporary art space that provides direct support to artists through exhibition opportunities, live commissions, and public programs. in recent years, the exhibition program has grown to present six major exhibitions per year…

Arts & Culture
4
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Performances Inc

SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.

Arts & Culture
6
Art Share Los Angeles

Promoting culturals arts in los angeles including education, gallery exhibits, artist living and work spaces theater, art and community festivals, artistic development and community outreach.

Arts & Culture
7
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
8
18TH Street Arts Complex

Support local artists through workshops, gallery exhibitions, and other educationalevents which reach out to the community at large; support local and internationalartists through renting spaces at rates below market value to artists…

Arts & Culture
9
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
10
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
11
CounterPulse

exchange of art and ideas, catalyzing transformation in our communities and our society. We work towards a world that celebrates diversity of race, class, cultural heritage, artistic expression, ability, gender identity & sexual…

12
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is National Poetry Series Inc. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CORPORATION OF YADDO — $160,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CORPORATION OF YADDOFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC — $22,500 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INCMusic in Place — $11,325 · Arts & CultureMusic in Place+3 more — $10,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL POETRY SERIES INC — $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL POETRY SERIES INCSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $20,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKThe FDN for the Public Schools of Tarry — $10,000 · OtherThe FDN for the Public Schools…National Children's Theatre — $9,000 · OtherNational Children's TheatreLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $5,000 · Other+4 more — $9,500 · Other+4 moreHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $25,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STRE…Prader-Willi Homes of California — $10,000 · Human ServicesPrader-Wil…THE TANK CENTER FOR SONIC ARTS INC — $25,000 · HealthGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 · InternationalTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $2,500 · Membership BenefitCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $1,800 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$204,325Other$103,500Human Services$35,000Health$25,000Food & Nutrition$5,000International$5,000Membership Benefit$2,500Recreation & Sports$1,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO — $160,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL POETRY SERIES INC — $50,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE TANK CENTER FOR SONIC ARTS INC — $25,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC — $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMusic in Place — $11,325 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPrader-Willi Homes of California — $10,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiterature to Life Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetO'HANLON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Gil Schwartz Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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