· Private foundation
Schwartz Charitable 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 86 grants below total $317,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $334,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k79 grants · $228k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Healthcare Ctr | $20,000 |
| St Mary of the Hills | $15,250 |
| Hanover Theatre | $15,000 |
| Tower Hill Botanic Garden | $10,000 |
| Furever Homes for Felines | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UMass Med School | $10,000 |
| Center for Canine Behaviour Studies | $7,500 |
| Auburn Little League | $5,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $5,000 |
| Worcester Jewish Comm Ctr | $5,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOME INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Worc | $5,000 |
| Shrewsbury Pitches In | $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 (FY18–24, $184k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +43% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
132 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 18 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- JHJEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC6× · 2018–2024 · $47k · revenue +14%
- FHFUREVER HOMES FOR FELINES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +35%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC6× · 2018–2023 · $43k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- BABoys and Girls Clubone grant, 2018 · $10k
- RHRose Haven Youth Outreachone grant, 2018 · $10k
- WAWORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +41%
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 worcester business development corporation (wbdc) is a private, non- profit business organization with a public purpose mission to serve as an innovation and leading force in the economic development of the city of worcester and the…
Worcester Community Housing Resources' mission is to help create and preserve affordable housing and to initiate and support neighborhood revitalization in the greater Worcester area. Since 1994 we have proven ourselves to be a successful…
The organization's mission is to support our local community through providing accessible arts programs, community outreach, culturally focused events, and offering a safe and welcoming space and platform for other arts and…
The club is established for the purpose of providing athletic exercises including golf, bowling, swimming, tennis, cross country skiing, and other out-of-door sports, and for the establishment and maintenance of facilities for the…
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
The organization is dedicated to being the leading business organization in central massachusetts by providing valuable membership services and programs and events to its members and in advancing and advocating on behalf of economic…
Worcester regional research bureau, inc. serves the public interest of greater worcester by conducting independent, non-partisan research and analysis of public policy issues to promote informed public debate and decision-making.
The mission of worcester cultural coalition is to draw on worcester's rich and diverse cultural assets to foster economic revitalization, support active, creative engagement for all and promote a strong cultural identity for greater…
Provision of quality education and child care programs and services.
To aid, encourage, advise, and correlate activities dedicated to the promotion of the arts in worcester county, as may be feasible; to integrate such activities into the total life of the community served by the council.
Aids project worcester is a nonprofit organization in central massachusetts dedicated to ending the hiv/aids pandemic and fostering wellness through service, advocacy, prevention, education, and collaborative initiatives. we empower and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Icon Museum and Study Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
120 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. 120 of the 277 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FUREVER HOMES FOR FELINES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Canine Behavior Studies Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Searching For Identity Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S INN INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BECKER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds NEUROACANTHOCYTOSIS ADVOCACY USA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA DANCE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOXER RESCUE 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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Wyman Gordon · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity · Coghlin Services Fund · Woosox Foundation Inc
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 Schwartz Charitable 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.
- Employment Options Inc — 100% of income from government
- Pathways for Change Inc — 86% of income from government
- New England Village Inc — 68% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester — 60% of income from government
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- Audio Journal Incorporated — 35% of income from government
- Masscreative Inc — 26% of income from government
- Journey Forward Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
- Jewish Community Alliance Inc — 12% of income from government
- Worcester Roots Project — 12% of income from government
- Preservation Worcester Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Worcester Symphony Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Orchestras Inc — 8% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Roots Rising Inc — 6% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc — 5% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- Silk Road Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- The New England Center for Children Inc — 3% of income from government
- Artsworcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mittleman Jewish Community Center — 2% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wicn Public Radio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Joy of Music Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Turn Back Time Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nichols College — 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.