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Schwartz Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$12MHealth$6.1MReligion$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MInternational$410kEnvironment$336kCommunity Improvement$209kArts & Culture$205kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $708k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.8M
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,291,889
MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$673,746
MAHARISHI SCHOOL$300,000
AFRICA COLLEGE FUND$250,000
DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION$250,000
RAAM RAJ FOUNDATION$190,000
BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION$150,000
SRI DEVI MANDIR TEMPLE$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE$100,000
MAHARISHI FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL$67,500
PTSD RELIEF NOW$50,000
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION$50,000
MISSION BLUE$25,000
OLIVE CREST$25,000
MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $724k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $50k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS: $5k → 14%MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW: $3k → 16%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $30k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS: $5k → 14%MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMINISTRATION THROUGH NATURAL LAW: $2k → 16%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $30k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS: $5k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $30k → 14%BLISSFUL LIFE FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%MANAVATA MANDIR DBA SRI DEVI MANDIR: $100k → 14%MAHARISHI FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $89k → 14%MAHARISHI FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $68k → 14%MANAVATA MANDIR DBA SRI DEVI MANDIR: $21k → 14%MAHARISHI FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 14%MANAVATA MANDIR DBA SRI DEVI MANDIR: $16k → 14%MANAVATA MANDIR DBA SRI DEVI MANDIR: $3k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
WY
IA
CA
WV
VA
SC
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of Schwartz Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 41%.

Schwartz Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 21% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 33 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
10

Total granted

$21M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+35%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MI
    MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +219% · 44% of their budget
  • MI
    MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +42%
  • MF
    Maharishi Foundation International
    4× · 2019–2024 · $426k · revenue ×13

Funded once

  • DL
    DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $638k
  • MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +121%
  • TC
    THE CAMBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -42% · 96% of their budget
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.

04Its 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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
4
Nalanda 20

Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…

Education
5
One Planet Research Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Maharishi University of Enlightenment

To provide consciousness - based educational programs including post secondary educational programs.

Religion
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
Swaniti Initiative

Our mission is to help build strong and supportive ecosystems that can stand up to the realities of a changing climate. today, countries are expected to transition quickly to cleaner energy, strengthen social protection and improve systems…

Public Benefit
9
World Monuments Fund Inc

Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…

Arts & Culture
10
One Planet Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
12
Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Samjivani Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 59 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
30/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $6,422,364 · EducationMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORP…MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $4,105,982 · EducationMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY+1 more: $339,000 · EducationDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $5,197,382 · PhilanthropyDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CON…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $900,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSO…+4 more: $290,000 · PhilanthropyMAHARISHI SCHOOL: $1,107,221 · OtherMAHARISHI SCHOO…DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION: $637,500 · OtherDAVID LYNCH FOU…RAAM RAJ FOUNDATION: $352,000 · OtherRAAM RAJ FOUNDA…SRI DEVI MANDIR TEMPLE: $343,000 · OtherSRI DEVI MANDIR…MAHARISHI SCHOOL OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT: $204,686 · OtherMAHARISHI SCHOO…Individual grant recipient: $130,000 · OtherBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION: $201,000 · OtherBRAHMANANDA SAR…+19 more: $267,100 · Other+19 moreMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesMaharishi Foundation International: $425,811 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $140,000 · Human ServicesMANAVATA MANDIR: $139,000 · Human Services+2 more: $19,500 · Human ServicesRaam Raj Foundation: $395,000 · InternationalAFRICA COLLEGE FUND: $305,500 · InternationalCOLLATERAL REPAIR PROJECT: $34,416 · International+3 more: $40,000 · InternationalPROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC: $200,000 · EnvironmentLeading from Within: $175,000 · EnvironmentJefferson County Farmers and Neighbors: $51,000 · EnvironmentPATHFINDERS RC&D: $25,000 · Environment+5 more: $56,000 · EnvironmentPTSD Relief Now Corporation: $360,000 · HealthSANSUM CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthOLIVE CREST: $25,000 · Health
Education$10,867,346Philanthropy$6,387,382Other$3,242,507Human Services$1,224,311International$774,916Environment$507,000Health$435,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $6,422,364 over 7y, 44% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $5,197,382 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $4,105,982 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $900,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMaharishi Foundation International: $425,811 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetRaam Raj Foundation: $395,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetPTSD Relief Now Corporation: $360,000 over 8y, 93% of budgetCenter for Wellness and Achievement: $339,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetAFRICA COLLEGE FUND: $305,500 over 4y, 39% of budgetBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION: $201,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetPROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetLeading from Within: $175,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMANAVATA MANDIR: $139,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetMAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM: $51,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJefferson County Farmers and Neighbors: $51,000 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSANSUM CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLATERAL REPAIR PROJECT: $34,416 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTHERN IOWA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $32,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPATHFINDERS RC&D: $25,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Abraham Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSAMJIVANI FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC: $10,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANTA BARBARA BIRD SANCTUARY: $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWilson Volunteer Fire Department Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRACHEL'S NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNoahs Ark Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

The Rona and Jeffrey …Raam Raj FoundationInvincibility Foundat…Ramani and Louise D A…Global Invincibility …David Lynch Foundatio…David L Lieb Foundati…The Olive Branch Foun…Ravi and Naina Patel …Rita Morgan Charitabl…The Wege FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…
The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson FoundationMD32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · Raam Raj Foundation · Invincibility Foundation · Ramani and Louise D Ayer Family Foundation · Global Invincibility Foundation · David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace · David L Lieb Foundation Inc · The Olive Branch Foundation Inc · Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation · Rita Morgan Charitable Foundation Inc · The Wege Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Schwartz Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Schwartz Family 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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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