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Shaffer Family Foundation Dtd 42911 Co Lawrence M Schwartz Cpa
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Shaffer Family Foundation Dtd 42911 Co Lawrence M Schwartz Cpa’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Shaffer Family Foundation Dtd 42911 Co Lawrence M Schwartz Cpa named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $710k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $900,000 |
| UCSD FOUNDATION | $745,000 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY | $200,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Disc | $100,000 |
| CLEARITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES | $85,000 |
| Palo Verde High School | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 29% of Shaffer Family Foundation Dtd 42911 Co Lawrence M Schwartz Cpa’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSCRIPPS HEALTH6× · 2017–2022 · $6.6M · revenue +82%
- LJLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY5× · 2019–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +23%
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +34%
Funded once
- UHUCLA-DRC HEALTH RESEARCH TRAINING Pone grant, 2018 · $150k
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $135k · revenue +88%
- STSHELTER TO SOLDIER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +45%
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.
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.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
Please see schedule o
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
Unlocking the secrets of life itself is the driving force behind the salk institute. our team of world-class, award-winning scientists pushes boundaries of knowledge in areas such as neuroscience, cancer research, aging, immunobiology,…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
To support lundquist institute for biomedical innovation at harbor-ucla medical center.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Clearity Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHELTER TO SOLDIER INC ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shaffer Family Foundation Dtd 42911 Co Lawrence M Schwartz Cpa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shaffer Family Foundation Dtd 42911 Co Lawrence M Schwartz Cpa. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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