How much does Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation give?

Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $10,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Philanthropy (21%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc ($26k), Springfield Museums Corporation ($11k), Springfield Operations Ecs Inc ($10k).

Does Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, The Beveridge Family Foundation, Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc.

Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation

Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation

Q: Where is Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation based?

Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1k

Largest

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 2025.

Education$28kPhilanthropy$27kArts & Culture$17kHousing & Shelter$14kHealth$9kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$6kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250

Median grant

States reached

$2k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNITED WAY OF PIONEER VALLEY	$1,000
STCC FOUNDATION	$500
SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION	$500
DOMUS INC	$500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES	$500
TRANSHEALTH INC	$500
WAY FINDERS	$500
HOME CITY DEVELOPMENT INC	$500
VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC	$500
NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC	$300
AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION	$250
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY	$250
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$250
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL	$250
COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL	$250

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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$100k · 48 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$100k

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+18%

Still filing today

58%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterAnimalsCrime & 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

SM
SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +22%
WN
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY
6× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +22%
WF
WAY FINDERS INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +124%

Funded once

SO
SPRINGFIELD OPERATIONS ECS INC
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -67%
GI
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
one grant, 2017 · $3k
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +27%

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.

Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health

North Adams Regional Hospital

The mission of north adams regional hospital is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, & personalized environment.

Health

Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health

Berkshire Health Systems Inc

The mission of berkshire health systems is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming,inclusive & personalized environment.

Health

Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health

Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Emerson Health System Inc

Emerson health systems is the parent organization of four subsidiaries - emerson hospital, emerson occupational health services, emerson property development and emerson health care foundation. emerson health systems provides its…

Health

Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health

Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Help Our Kids 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

69 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. 69 of the 148 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)

68/69

Grantees still filing

51/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$44,200Human Services$36,475Education$29,025Housing & Shelter$8,375Crime & Legal$5,750Arts & Culture$4,450Health$4,250

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.

Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA63.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Henrietta F Dexter Tuw-Dexter Ch · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · Chicopee Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region

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 Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

17get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

6rely 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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