New York · Private foundation
Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation
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.
- $500k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Howard and Debbie Schiller 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; $28k 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 | 11 | $465k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $522k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $470k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $395k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $372k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $262k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Readworksinc | $1,450,000 | 6 | 15% |
| The Valerie Fund | $409,015 | 4 | 3% |
| West Fork Volunteer Fire Department | $100,000 | 1 | 93% |
| Judith Creed Horizons for Achieving Independence | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Exploration | $48,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Telluride Council for the Arts and Human Dba Telluride Arts | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Dalton Family Foundation · Telluride Foundation · The Peter a and Deborah L Weinberg Family Foundation · The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · National Philanthropic Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
Compare Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation with peer funders
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About Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation
- How much does Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation give?
- Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $499,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Health (19%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Readworksinc ($1.4M), The Valerie Fund ($409k), West Fork Volunteer Fire Department ($100k).
- Does Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, The Dalton Family Foundation.
- Where is Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation based?
- Howard and Debbie Schiller Foundation is based in NY.
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