New Jersey · Private foundation
Schwarz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $5.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,880,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $59M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Schwarz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $3.0M | 4% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $2.5M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $3.8M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $2.4M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $2.4M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $2.2M | 7% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $1.8M | 28% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $1.9M | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americans for Ben-Gurion University Inc | $2,620,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $2,500,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $1,720,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Friends of Hebrew University Inc | $1,200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $750,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Harlem Children's Zone Inc | $650,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Lahey Health Pharmacy Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $355,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Educational Center | $275,000 | 8 | n/a |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $240,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Schwarz Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Schwarz Foundation
- How much does Schwarz Foundation give?
- Schwarz Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $5,285,487 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Schwarz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (43%), Education (15%), Health (12%).
- Who are Schwarz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Americans for Ben-Gurion University Inc ($2.6M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($2.5M), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($1.7M).
- Does Schwarz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schwarz 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Schwarz Foundation based?
- Schwarz Foundation is based in NJ.
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