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Milton H & Lillian Z Schwartz Schwartz Family Fund at a glance

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Milton H & Lillian Z Schwartz Schwartz Family Fund

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.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$32kPhilanthropy$20kFood & Nutrition$14kEducation$8kReligion$7kArts & Culture$5kAnimals$5kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
11
States reached
$66k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION$4,913
NORTHERN IL FOOD BANK$2,259
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$1,750
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,722
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$1,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND$1,000
PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING$1,000
CHALLENGE ASPEN$500
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$465
UNITED WAY$300
MORAINE TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY$300
CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN$300
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$300
AMERICAN HEART ASSOC$300
KRCL 909 FM$300
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 (FY18–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $500 → 6%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%ARTS FOR ANIMALS: $334 → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $1k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $800 → 14%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $768 → 6%PRJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $800 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $616 → 14%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $677 → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $373 → 14%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $645 → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $276 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $275 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 39 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
36

Total granted

$89k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+34%

Still filing today

56%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • CR
    CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +34%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    8× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +34%
  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    7× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE INT'L FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • Feeding America
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +17%
  • JI
    Jazz Institute of Chicago
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -78%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
American Institute for Cancer Research

Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…

Health
10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
11
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Declan Drumm Sullivan Memorial. 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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 81 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
36/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROLFE FOUNDATION: $3,800 · OtherROLFE FOUNDATIONTHE INT'L FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN: $3,493 · OtherTHE INT'L FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANST JUDE: $2,643 · OtherST JUDELURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2,338 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,121 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,892 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,822 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCJazz Institute of Chicago: $1,500 · Other+42 more: $23,601 · Other+42 moreCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $12,518 · HealthCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUND…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,990 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESE…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,854 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY…American Heart Association Inc: $2,640 · HealthAmerican Heart Associat…Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $1,407 · HealthGillette Children's Hos…+4 more: $1,050 · HealthJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $12,040 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED F…THE DECLAN DRUMM SULLIVAN MEMORIAL: $1,800 · PhilanthropyTHE DECLAN DRUM…UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $1,190 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF L…+2 more: $575 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $8,863 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILL…Feeding America: $2,074 · Food & NutritionFeeding Amer…ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $1,000 · Food & NutritionARIZONA FOOD…+1 more: $328 · Food & NutritionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,240 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE ASPEN: $2,590 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $1,800 · Human ServicesBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesARTS FOR ANIMALS INC: $334 · Human ServicesSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,722 · EducationGIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION: $1,237 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $1,200 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,020 · EducationDFW HUMANE SOCIETY OF IRVING INC: $2,322 · AnimalsSPCA of Texas: $978 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGO: $827 · AnimalsAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $334 · Animals
Other$44,210Health$23,459Philanthropy$15,605Food & Nutrition$12,265Human Services$8,964Education$5,179Animals$4,461

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $12,518 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $12,040 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $8,863 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,240 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,990 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,854 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,822 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,640 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN: $2,590 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDFW HUMANE SOCIETY OF IRVING INC: $2,322 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,121 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFeeding America: $2,074 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DECLAN DRUMM SULLIVAN MEMORIAL: $1,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJazz Institute of Chicago: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $1,407 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION: $1,237 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $1,190 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $1,113 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,020 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA of Texas: $978 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $827 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON PANTRY: $684 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $609 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION - CAMP OLSON: $583 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $465 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS FOR ANIMALS INC: $334 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $328 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORAINE TOWNSHIP CHARITABLE FUND CHARITABLE FUND: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLISTENERS COMMUNITY RADIO OF UTAH INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRATE HIGHWOOD: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $106 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Baxter International …AbbVie FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…
Baxter International FoundationIL13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baxter International Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 Milton H & Lillian Z Schwartz Schwartz Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milton H & Lillian Z Schwartz Schwartz Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 81 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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