· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $480k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KLINE GALLAND FOUNDATION | $2,500,000 |
| TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI | $180,000 |
| HILLEL AT THE UW | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS | $100,000 |
| STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $100,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| TREEHOUSE | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| YAKIMA VALLEY PET RESCUE | $5,000 |
| HALO ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| RODS HOUSE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE8× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +107%
- TTREEHOUSE6× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +172%
- HHHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC6× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- SASPOKANE AREA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICEone grant, 2024 · $100k
- TFTHE FOSTER ALLIANCEone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +11%
- FLFOOD LIFELINEone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
Our mission is to save the lives of homeless cats by providing access to high volume spay/neuter surgery in a safe and humane environment, collaborating with others and mentoring like-minded organizations to increase spay/neuter in their…
To reduce the number of homeless pets through adoption, rescue and spay and neuter programs.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Safe rescue saves feline lives by taking in homeless cats, giving them the care they need, finding them loving homes, and supporting their human companions. we do this because we believe each cat has inherent value and that humans and…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
The vision of Spokane Humane Society is to enrich the lives of animals and their companions through Support, Education, Advocacy and Love (SEAL). As the oldest local non-profit in Spokane, we have been serving companion animals in need and…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Providing positive life changing solutions to people and animals in need.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 29 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.
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE FOSTER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC ↗
- Who funds Yakima Valley Pet Rescue and Adoption Center ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE WIND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ROD'S HOUSE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karen and Gary Schwartz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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