· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| RUTH RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE NORTH SHORE | $5,000 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HEBREW SENIORLIFE INC | $1,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $1,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON INC | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 18% of all-years giving ($5.5M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 54% of Swartz Foundation’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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +64%
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 54 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 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 BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HACHSHARA-MOSHAVA OF NY 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 Hebrew Senior Life 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Swartz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Swartz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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