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.

Schwarz Foundation

Schwarz Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.9M

Largest

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 2025.

International$12MEducation$4.0MHealth$3.4MScience & Tech$2.3MHuman Services$2.1MArts & Culture$2.0MReligion$1.3MPhilanthropy$367kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $35k
$10k–50k3 grants · $75k
$50k–250k6 grants · $835k
$250k+6 grants · $4.3M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$59M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC	$1,880,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE	$1,000,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	$420,000
AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY	$420,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM	$320,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY	$300,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM	$200,000
SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND	$200,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK	$120,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$110,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NEW JERSEY	$105,487
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC	$100,000
THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS	$25,000
JEWISH EDUCATIONAL CENTER	$25,000
ROSE HOUSE	$25,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $765k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$21M · 41 repeat orgs$744k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$21M

$634k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+80%

Still filing today

63%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesMembership BenefitOther

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

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AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +61%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
3× · 2023–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +16%
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +25%

Funded once

BI
BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH PHARMACY INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +167%
NP
NY PRESBYTERIAN FUND
one grant, 2023 · $50k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $20k

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.

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education

Sherit Isroel

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University of Judaism Foundation

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Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech

Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

The Jerusalem Connection

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Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Springfield First Aid Squad Inc. 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

34 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. 34 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/34

Grantees still filing

22/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$10,381,677International$3,971,755Health$3,970,000Philanthropy$3,570,000Education$2,860,450Arts & Culture$2,100,000Human Services$765,000

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

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.

Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable FoundationFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home