Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Schechter Family 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.
- $154k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 13
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Schechter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $154k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $103k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $56k | 73% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $32k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $113k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $108k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Help Foundation Inc | $99,500 | 2 | 95% |
| Waterorg | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Hope Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Human Needs Food Pantry Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Virtua Health Foundation Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hoboken Family Alliance Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 5% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Visions for Creative Housing Solutions | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($231k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Schechter Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Partners for Health Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good
How this is measured
About Schechter Family Foundation
- How much does Schechter Family Foundation give?
- Schechter Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $154,355 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Schechter Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Youth Development (17%), International (14%).
- Who are Schechter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Youth Help Foundation Inc ($100k), Waterorg ($60k), Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($25k).
- Does Schechter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schechter Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Schechter Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Partners for Health Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Schechter Family Foundation based?
- Schechter Family Foundation is based in PA.
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