· Private foundation
Herman & Greta Schwarz Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of Herman & Greta Schwarz Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Atlanta Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Greater Atlant | $48,000 |
| Jewish HomeLife | $2,000 |
| Emory University | $800 |
| Nat'l Council of Jewish Women | $100 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
43 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 43 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJewish Federation of Greater Atlanta2× · 2020–2021 · $54k
- AFAmerican Friends Israel Sports Center for the Disabled2× · 2020–2021 · $35k
- JHJewish Home Life Communities2× · 2020–2021 · $4k
Funded once
- BMBremen Museumone grant, 2021 · $5k
- JCJewish Community Fdn of Greater Phoenixone grant, 2021 · $2k
- JFJewish Federation of Greater Phoenixone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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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