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Schwarz Family 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.

$39k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
63%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 12
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$144k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Schwarz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$39k44%
FY20238$18k63%
FY20225$70k20%
FY202110$34k70%
FY202012$65kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$58kPhilanthropy$50kCivil Rights$48kReligion$35kEducation$29kHuman Services$24kCrime & Legal$3kHealth$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc$47,50021%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$45,00030%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$37,50040%
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc$30,00020%
Wnet$20,00030%
Project Ezra$15,80041%
Footsteps Inc$7,16030%
Robin Hood Foundation$5,00010%
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion$2,5001n/a
Equal Justice Initiative$2,50010%
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All grantees of Schwarz Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc$47,50021%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$45,00030%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$37,50040%
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc$30,00020%
Wnet$20,00030%
Project Ezra$15,80041%
Footsteps Inc$7,16030%
Robin Hood Foundation$5,00010%
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion$2,5001n/a
Equal Justice Initiative$2,50010%
Central Synagogue$2,3002n/a
Kivunim$1,80010%
Moving Traditions$1,00010%
Feeding America$1,00010%
Connecticut College$1,00010%
Wellesley College$1,00010%
Dorot Inc$50010%
Project Kesher$36010%
Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc$20010%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$18010%
Congress for Jewish Culture Inc$18010%
Project Lyme$18010%
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation$11810%
Bay Street Theatre Festival Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Schwarz Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAvodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc: $47,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFacing History & Ourselves Inc: $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWnet: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Ezra: $15,800 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFootsteps Inc: $7,160 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKivunim: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMoving Traditions: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorot Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Kesher: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCongress for Jewish Culture Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetProject Lyme: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation: $118 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay Street Theatre Festival Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments 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.

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About Schwarz Family Foundation

How much does Schwarz Family Foundation give?
Schwarz Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $38,540 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Schwarz Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Philanthropy (20%), Civil Rights (19%).
Who are Schwarz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc ($48k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($45k), Facing History & Ourselves Inc ($38k).
Does Schwarz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Schwarz 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 Schwarz Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Schwarz Family Foundation based?
Schwarz Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 31 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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