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Richard Schwartz Family Foundation
Its FY2020 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
95% of Richard Schwartz Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Richard Schwartz Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $205k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IFO INC | $65,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL | $20,000 |
| WELLSPRING COOPERATIVE CORP | $17,000 |
| COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY ADOLESCENT RESOURCES AND EDUCATION CENTER INC DBA THE CARE CENTER | $15,000 |
| PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER | $15,000 |
| FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC | $10,000 |
| RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS' HOME | $10,000 |
| NO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC | $8,000 |
| INTERSECTION OF CHANGE | $5,000 |
| OUT FOR JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE-BALTIMORE | $5,000 |
| THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC (TSNE) | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +204% since the first grant, against +165% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CICOMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +50%
- WCWELLSPRING COOPERATIVE CORPORATION4× · 2017–2020 · $68k · revenue +480%
- CACOMMUNITY ADOLESCENT RESOURCE AND EDUCATION CENTER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $60k · revenue +204%
Funded once
- WJWARREN J PLAUT CHARITABLE TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +165%
- AFALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
The fund for the center for community change is organized and incorporated to operate exclusively for the benefit of the center for community change (ccc).
Our mission is to promote and protect affordable homeownership in new york so that middle- and working-class families are able to build strong, thriving communities.
The community coalition supports and celebrates individuals, families, and social institutions through a collaborative fundraising effort. this creative approach by the coalition combines efficient business practices with the commitment to…
Connections work changes lives and improves communities by providing services and supports to individuals seeking pathways to success.
Icic drives inclusive economic prosperity in under-resourced communities through innovative research and programs to create jobs, income, and wealth for local residents.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
To foster a movement of systemic change to advance equity and inclusion in winchester and beyond.
Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance. vision of a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable world starts here in west central minnesota.
Community mediation services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts and the most unlike its peers is Warren J Plaut Charitable Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING COOPERATIVE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ADOLESCENT RESOURCE AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NO BOUNDARIES COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME ↗
- Who funds DREAMING OUT LOUD INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN J PLAUT CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds OUT For JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Beveridge Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Peace Development Fund · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Richard Schwartz Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
- Intersection of Change Inc — 20% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Adolescent Resource and Education Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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