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Schwarz Family Foundation Inc

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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.1MEducation$2.1MInternational$200kHousing & Shelter$166kYouth Development$163kHuman Services$92kCrime & Legal$60kEmployment$11k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $169k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Neurosurgical Atlas Inc$2,000,000
Ohio Fdn of Independent Colleges$259,287
St Mary's Child Center Inc$32,500
Dream Center Indianapolis Inc$30,000
Chlidren First Inc$30,000
Brightlane Learning Corp$25,000
Indianapolis Public Schools Education Foundation Inc$15,000
Boys & Girls Club of Noblesville$15,000
Watch Us Farm$11,000
Boys & Girls Club of Boone County Inc$10,000
Zionsville Educational Fund$7,500
Hamilton Southeastern Schools Foundation Inc$7,500
Hector P Garcia Elementary School$7,000
Firefly Children & Family Alliance$7,000
AAI Scholarship Fund Inc$1,000
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, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Noble Inc: $33k → 16%St Mary's Child Center Inc: $33k → 16%JULIAN CENTER INC: $10k → 16%Firefly Children & Family Alliance: $7k → 16%JULIAN CENTER INC: $6k → 16%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 18 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
8

Total granted

$2.7M
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+58%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TO
    THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +19%
  • BL
    BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP
    6× · 2019–2024 · $211k · revenue +127%
  • HS
    HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOLS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • NI
    Noble Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue +43%
  • TF
    TECHPOINT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +22%
  • BP
    Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue -8%
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
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
2
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
3
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
Kipp Indianapolis Inc

KIPP Indy is a network of tuition-free, open-enrollment, college preparatory, public charter schools. KIPP Indy's mission is to create a network of schools that provides educationally underserved children with a rigorous education that…

Education
6
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
7
Early Learning Indiana Inc

Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)

Human Services
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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9
The Mind Trust Inc

The mind trust strives to provide every student in indianapolis and beyond with access to an excellent education.

Education
10
International School of Indiana Inc

The mission of the international school of indiana is to provide our students with a world-class education that prepares them to be responsible citizens and effective leaders in a rapidly globalizing and interdependent world.

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11
Indiana Family to Family

Indiana family to family (inf2f) is a unique statewide family-led organization that provides information, training, and peer support to caregivers of children and youth with special health care needs (cyshcn) and the professionals who…

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12
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill

Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hussey Mayfield Memorial Public Library Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
24/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $1,417,537 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGESBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $211,000 · EducationBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORPHAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOLS: $202,500 · EducationHAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOLSChildren First Inc: $195,000 · EducationChildren First Inc+4 more: $84,000 · EducationThe Neurosurgical Atlas Inc: $2,000,000 · HealthThe Neurosurgical Atlas Inc+4 more: $85,000 · HealthZIONSVILLE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $122,500 · OtherBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF BOONE COUNTY INC: $85,000 · OtherRILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherChlidren First Inc: $30,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC: $30,000 · OtherHEAR INDIANA INC: $23,000 · OtherA A I SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $13,000 · Other+1 more: $7,000 · OtherDREAM CENTER OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $166,000 · Housing & ShelterDayspring Center Inc: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesNoble Inc: $32,500 · Human ServicesTHE JULIAN CENTER INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $40,000 · Crime & LegalPEACE LEARNING CENTER INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalTRUSTED MENTORS INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $7,500 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $4,500 · International
Education$2,110,037Health$2,085,000Other$350,500Housing & Shelter$172,000Human Services$88,000Crime & Legal$60,000Youth Development$40,000International$21,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $1,417,537 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $211,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetHAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOLS: $202,500 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetChildren First Inc: $195,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDREAM CENTER OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $166,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF BOONE COUNTY INC: $85,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetZionsville Education Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTED MENTORS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC: $32,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNoble Inc: $32,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHEAR INDIANA INC: $23,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPEACE LEARNING CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JULIAN CENTER INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTECHPOINT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWATCH US FARM INC: $11,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People: $9,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDayspring Center Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUSSEY MAYFIELD MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

United Way of Central…Central Indiana Commu…Lilly Endowment IncNicholas H Noyes Jr M…The Indianapolis Foun…The Brave Heart Found…Hamilton County Commu…Pacers Foundation IncMaurer Family Foundat…Lumina Foundation for…Samerian Foundation I…Healthcare Initiative…
United Way of Central Indiana IncIN39.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Pacers Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · Healthcare Initiatives Inc

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 Schwarz Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schwarz Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Children First Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Schwarz Family Foundation Inc 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 33 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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