· Private foundation
Schnitzer-Novack Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $209k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $109,100 |
| THE CAITLIN GABEL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST HELENA PRESCHOOL FOR ALL INC | $14,400 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS - FINDING KIDS | $10,000 |
| WORLDSTRIDES | $10,000 |
| CORPORATION OF FINE ARTS | $10,000 |
| PARISI HOUSE ON THE HILL | $8,000 |
| DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| B STREET THEATRE | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM | $3,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- CCCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS2× · 2023–2024 · $551k · revenue +30%
CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +9%- TFTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- EMEisenhower Medical Centerone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +23%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Dcp prepares first-generation students (first in their family to go to college) for college success. as such, dcp develops and manages college preparatory schools (grades 5-12) for students residing in and around san jose, california.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Silicon Valley and the most unlike its peers is Abby Meeske Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Special Operations - Finding Kids ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds St Helena Preschool For All Inc ↗
- Who funds CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ABBY MEESKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BACK ON MY FEET ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PARISI HOUSE ON THE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds NO TIME TO WASTE ↗
- Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Schnitzer-Novack 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Catlin Gabel School — 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Schnitzer-Novack Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Schnitzer-Novack 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.