· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 ADOLESCENT RESOURCES AND EDUCATION CENTER INC DBA THE CARE CENTER | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE | $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 |
| OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE-BALTIMORE | $5,000 |
| OUT FOR JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| INTERSECTION OF CHANGE | $5,000 |
| THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC (TSNE) | $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 (FY17–20, $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 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 +204% since the first grant, against +165% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
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 22 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 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 RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds DREAMING OUT LOUD INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard Schwartz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard Schwartz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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