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Stephen a Schwarzman Foundation at a glance

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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.

$76M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$26M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$244MArts & Culture$41MAnimals$25MInternational$15MRecreation & Sports$10MScience & Tech$7.9MFood & Nutrition$6.1MPhilanthropy$5.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $295k
  • $250k+16 grants · $76M
$1,238,588
Median grant
4
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25.8M → 8%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $1.0M → 16%FOUNDATION FOR ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $6.0M → 7%MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC: $769k → 14%PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK: $1.6M → 11%USA TRACK & FIELD FOUNDATION: $2.8M → 16%USO FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 7%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25.8M → 8%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $1.0M → 16%FOUNDATION FOR ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $6.0M → 7%MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS (PLANET WORD): $731k → 14%PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK: $1.4M → 11%USA TRACK & FIELD FOUNDATION: $2.8M → 16%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25.6M → 8%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $984k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3.5M → 7%PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK: $1.3M → 11%USA TRACK FIELD FOUNDATION: $2.6M → 16%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO: $25.6M → 8%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $961k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3.4M → 7%INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2.6M → 17%PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK: $1.2M → 11%USA TRACK & FIELD FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 16%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $24.1M → 8%INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $760k → 17%INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $742k → 17%INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $730k → 17%INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $506k → 17%THE FRICK COLLECTION: $8.0M → 17%THE FRICK COLLECTION: $7.6M → 17%THE FRICK COLLECTION: $7.5M → 17%THE FRICK COLLECTION: $7.3M → 17%ASIA SOCIETY: $2.5M → 17%ASIA SOCIETY: $2.5M → 17%ASIA SOCIETY: $1.3M → 17%ASIA SOCIETY: $1.2M → 17%AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE NATIONAL: $2.0M → 17%ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $8.4M → 17%ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $8.4M → 17%ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $8.2M → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $558k → 17%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1.0M → 17%FRIENDS OF THE MUSEES DES ARTS DECORATIFS: $707k → 17%CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $4.2M → 17%CHAPEL YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $4.0M → 17%NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US-CHINA RELATIONS: $1.0M → 17%NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US-CHINA RELATIONS: $524k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
VA
DC
FL

Beyond the US: 28% of all-years giving ($100M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$100M · 11 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 50% of Stephen a Schwarzman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Stephen a Schwarzman Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 28% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$211M · 12 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$211M
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-5%

Still filing today

75%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • UT
    USA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $7.6M · revenue +6% · 69% of their budget
  • IC
    INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +34%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • UF
    USO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.4M · revenue -5%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $769k · revenue -16%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS (PLANET WORD)
    one grant, 2022 · $731k
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.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
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
3
The Baruch College Fund

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.

Education
4
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

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…

Community Improvement
5
American Foreign Service Association

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…

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6
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
7
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
8
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

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.

—
9
Furman University

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.

Education
10
The American Federation of Arts Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
United States Naval Institute

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.

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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 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.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 35 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
12/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD: $100,212,593 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OXFORDThe Frick Collection: $32,120,347 · OtherThe Frick CollectionINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $5,926,731 · Other+13 more: $18,007,133 · Other+13 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $126,964,700 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyFOUNDATION FOR ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $18,894,820 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT+1 more: $62,376 · EducationTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $25,070,767 · AnimalsTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $7,472,738 · InternationalNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $1,536,563 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $1,463,031 · International+4 more: $763,606 · InternationalUSA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC: $7,577,205 · Recreation & SportsPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $5,607,420 · Food & NutritionTHE SYLVIA CENTER: $500,000 · Food & NutritionCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $4,237,190 · PhilanthropyBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,147,551 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $251,803 · Philanthropy+2 more: $75,000 · Philanthropy
Other$156,266,804Education$145,921,896Animals$25,070,767International$11,235,938Recreation & Sports$7,577,205Food & Nutrition$6,107,420Philanthropy$5,711,544

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $126,964,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $32,120,347 over 5y, 21% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $25,070,767 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $18,894,820 over 4y, 100% of budgetUSA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC: $7,577,205 over 3y, 69% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $7,472,738 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $5,926,731 over 5y, 13% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $5,607,420 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $4,237,190 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $1,536,563 over 2y, 22% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $1,463,031 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUSO FOUNDATION: $1,367,212 over 1y, 18% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,147,551 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC: $769,311 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE SYLVIA CENTER: $500,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $430,440 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $251,803 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $251,803 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $251,803 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $251,803 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $62,376 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCFDA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA13.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Stephen a Schwarzman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stephen a Schwarzman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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