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Swartz 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of Swartz Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Swartz Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $735k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $153k
- $250k+2 grants · $529k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HADASSAH MEDICAL ORGANIZATION | $278,507 |
| KESHET DONOR ADVISED FUND | $250,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $103,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $7,500 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE NORTH SHORE | $5,000 |
| RUTH RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON INC | $1,000 |
| HEBREW SENIORLIFE INC | $1,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $1,000 |
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 — 82% of grant dollars ($25M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 18% that went abroad ($5.5M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 — 18% of all-years giving ($5.5M)
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 54% of Swartz 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 +41% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2022, 17 since wound down; 10 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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $539k 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC2× · 2020–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +9% · 40% of their budget
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC2× · 2020–2022 · $100k · revenue +50%
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE2× · 2020–2022 · $28k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $1.4M · revenue -2%
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +19%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Incone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +4%
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Israel Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 54 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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP HACHSHARA-MOSHAVA OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAMIR (ASSAF HAROFEH) MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Friends Of Or National Missions ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF UNITARIAN CHURCHES ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Chester Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Swartz 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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