Washington · Private foundation
Karen and Gary Schwartz 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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 12 | $3.0M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $6.4M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $4.2M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $1.8M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $574k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $257k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service | $5,660,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Temple de Hirsch Sinai | $1,313,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Treehouse | $95,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Youth | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Foster Alliance | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Halo Helping Animals Live on Inc | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Yakima Valley Pet Rescue and Adoption Center | $35,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Food Lifeline | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwest Harvest Emm | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service | $5,660,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Temple de Hirsch Sinai | $1,313,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Treehouse | $95,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Youth | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Foster Alliance | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Halo Helping Animals Live on Inc | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Yakima Valley Pet Rescue and Adoption Center | $35,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Food Lifeline | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwest Harvest Emm | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Hadassah Foundation Inc | $18,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Humane Society for Seattleking County | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Arizona Humane Society | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Seattle Wind Symphony | $13,500 | 3 | 38% |
| Plymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wellspring Family Services | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rod's House | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 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: United Way Worldwide · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation with peer funders
About Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation
- How much does Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation give?
- Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $3,040,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (55%), Human Services (31%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Family Service ($5.7M), Temple de Hirsch Sinai ($1.3M), Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics ($100k).
- Does Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karen and Gary Schwartz 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 Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way Worldwide, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation based?
- Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation is based in WA.
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