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Robert S Schultz 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.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
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.

Arts & Culture$72kHealth$26kHuman Services$13kInternational$2kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$67k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAPERMILL PLAYHOUSE$25,000
PAPERMILL PLAYHOUSE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COOPERMAN BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
PAPERMILL PLAYHOUSE$5,000
MY JEWISH CONNECTION$1,800
PLAY FOR PINK$600
02The need
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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 (FY17–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $3k → 16%DAY CARE COUNCIL OF NEW YORK: $5k → 17%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.
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 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
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
2
Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center in

Provide vital services & foster jewish identity, personal growth, family strength and community. the mid-island y jcc is open to everyone in the community serving individuals of all ages, abilities, and challenges.

Human Services
3
Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston

To advance the aspirations of families and individuals to enrich their lives, bodies and spirits, by providing the best in contemporary programs and experiences, informed by jewish values for today's jews and the people in their lives.

Human Services
4
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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5
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
6
The Jerusalem Connection
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7
Barry & Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Inc

The friedberg jewish community center promotes jewish life and values by providing programs and services in a warm and caring environment for all people in every stage of life. we build a community one member at a time.

Religion
8
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
9
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
10
Jewish Community Center of Schenectady Inc

Our mission is to build a vibrant, welcoming, and inclusive community that embraces our jewish values, culture, identity and connections to israel, engages the local community, and enhances the body, mind and spirit of our members.

Religion
11
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
12
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of New Jersey Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Friendship Circle Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Paper Mill Playhouse: $70,250 · Arts & CulturePaper Mill Playhouse+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $20,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDAT…COOPERMAN BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · OtherCOOPERMAN…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividua…DAY CARE COUNCIL OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesEVA'S VILLAGE INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,800 · InternationalMy Jewish Connection Inc: $1,800 · ReligionPLAY FOR PINK INC: $600 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$71,750Health$20,000Other$10,000Human Services$7,500Community Improvement$5,000International$1,800Religion$1,800Crime & Legal$600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPaper Mill Playhouse: $70,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAY CARE COUNCIL OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVA'S VILLAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Jewish Connection Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert S Schultz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert S Schultz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Eva's Village Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Paper Mill Playhouse: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Robert S Schultz Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 11 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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