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Stephen a Schwarzman Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k2 grants · $295k
- $250k+16 grants · $76M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO | $25,585,153 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | $22,979,700 |
| THE FRICK COLLECTION | $7,314,178 |
| CHAPEL YORK US FOUNDATION INC | $3,988,467 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | $3,340,591 |
| USA TRACK FIELD FOUNDATION | $2,605,578 |
| INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,552,732 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE NATIONAL | $2,040,160 |
| ASIA SOCIETY | $1,238,588 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK | $1,209,500 |
| INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $742,106 |
| COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS | $557,992 |
| THE FRICK COLLECTION | $464,354 |
| NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US-CHINA RELA | $459,238 |
| ANIT-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $430,440 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 72% of grant dollars ($258M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 28% that went abroad ($100M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 28% of all-years giving ($100M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 50% of Stephen a Schwarzman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UTUSA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $7.6M · revenue +6% · 69% of their budget
- ICINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC5× · 2018–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +34%
- NCNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +53%
Funded once
- UFUSO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.4M · revenue -5%
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INCone grant, 2020 · $769k · revenue -16%
- MOMUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS (PLANET WORD)one grant, 2022 · $731k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)
Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Abington School District. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds USA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds USO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MUSEES DES ARTS DECORATIFS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SYLVIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CFDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Stephen a Schwarzman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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