New Jersey · Private foundation
Swartz Foundation Trust
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.
- $4.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 67
- Grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 78
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $105M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Swartz Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $701k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 52 | $4.8M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $4.7M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $2.0M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $5.8M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $8.8M | 18% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $4.7M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $3.0M | 14% |
| FY2017 | 78 | $4.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | $12,109,625 | 5 | 0% |
| International Justice Mission | $5,550,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Christian Center of Park City | $3,087,910 | 8 | 15% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $2,220,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The National Museum of Women in the Arts | $1,790,500 | 8 | 3% |
| YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc | $1,728,237 | 8 | 17% |
| Sundance Institute | $1,397,385 | 5 | 1% |
| Martha's Vineyard Arena Inc | $650,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $515,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Partners for Justice Inc | $500,000 | 8 | 5% |
Show all 117 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Swartz Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Mimi and Peter Haas Fund · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · South Mountain Company Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · Sad Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Swartz Foundation Trust
- How much does Swartz Foundation Trust give?
- Swartz Foundation Trust reported 67 grants totaling $4,894,985 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 78 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Swartz Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Arts & Culture (13%), International (10%).
- Who are Swartz Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Carnegie Mellon University ($12M), International Justice Mission ($5.5M), Christian Center of Park City ($3.1M).
- Does Swartz Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Swartz Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Swartz Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, Mimi and Peter Haas Fund.
- Where is Swartz Foundation Trust based?
- Swartz Foundation Trust is based in NJ.
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