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Gil Schwartz Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+8%

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
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

  • 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%
  • GP
    GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -38%
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
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
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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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; 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 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. 16 of the 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · HealthWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $2,500 · Membership BenefitCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,800 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$204,325Other$103,500Human Services$35,000Health$25,000International$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Membership Benefit$2,500Recreation & Sports$1,800

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 budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $160,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL POETRY SERIES INC: $50,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TANK CENTER FOR SONIC ARTS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 4.7% 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 budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 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 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
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…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Gil Schwartz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gil Schwartz Foundation. 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%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, 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 22 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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