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Swerdlick Family Foundation Ltd at a glance

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Swerdlick Family Foundation Ltd

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.

$100
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$100
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Religion$249kHealth$57kEducation$40kHuman Services$30kArts & Culture$26kMembership Benefit$10kPhilanthropy$4kYouth Development$200Other$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
1
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$100
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RP HOMECARE: $10k → 7%SHRINERS CHILDREN'S PHILADELPHIA: $1k → 22%FIRE ISLAND SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 7%HORMONE PRESENTATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%DANCING DREAMS: $3k → 13%NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $20k → 17%RIVERDALE COUNTY SCHOOL: $5k → 28%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $8k → 14%MUSICLAND GIFT FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%ALOIS SOCIETY: $2k → 14%RP HOMECARE: $5k → 7%FIRE ISLAND SYNAGOGUE: $750 → 7%ED MONCHER: $180 → 11%DANCING DREAMS: $3k → 13%NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $10k → 17%RIVERDALE COUNTY SCHOOL: $5k → 28%RP HOMECARE: $5k → 7%NYU SCHOOL MEDICINE: $10k → 17%RP HOMECARE: $5k → 7%THE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%RP HOMECARE: $5k → 7%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $36k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $36k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $36k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $36k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $36k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $33k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $31k → 17%KENNY GORDON FOUNDATIONS: $1k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $180 → 17%THE LIVE 4 LIFE FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF ART: $3k → 17%COLUMBIE GRAMMER & PREP SCHOOL: $3k → 17%COLUMBIE BROWNEE & PREP SCHOOL: $3k → 17%FRANCIS POPE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%CGPS: $1k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING A: $10k → 17%FRANCIS POPE MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONS: $1k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND: $5k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND: $3k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND: $3k → 17%ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATI: $2k → 17%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $1k → 17%THIRTEEN: $200 → 17%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $500 → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%THE CALHOUN SCHOOL: $15k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT: $1k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$333k · 8 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
25

Total granted

$333k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+33%

Still filing today

38%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureMembership BenefitHealthSocial ScienceOther
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

  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    3× · 2019–2021 · $10k · revenue +72%
  • RC
    RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +33%
  • DD
    DANCING DREAMS
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -2%
  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +59%
  • NS
    NYU SCHOOL MEDICINE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
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
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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7
Northwell Health Foundation

Northwell health foundation inc. is dedicated toward helping donors, patients, and leaders link their vision and philanthropic support toward helping the underserved and uninsured, advancing the latest frontiers in medical technology and…

Health
8
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
9
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
10
Van Andel Research Institute

Medical research organization van andel research institute is an independent biomedical research organization committed to improving the health and enhancing the lives of current and future generations.

Health
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Frances Pope Memorial Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kenny Gordon Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $244,840 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUERP HOMECARE: $30,000 · OtherRP HOMECARENYU LANGONE HEALTH: $30,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTH+16 more: $44,830 · Other+16 moreTHE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE CALHOU…New York University: $10,000 · EducationNew York U…RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationRIVERDALE …COLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationCOLUMBIA G…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $7,500 · Arts & CultureDANCING DREAMS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICLAND GIFT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $10,000 · Membership BenefitFRANCES POPE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyLIVE4LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyKENNY GORDON FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Social ScienceNORTHWELL HEALTH INC: $100 · Community Improvement
Other$349,670Education$37,500Arts & Culture$13,500Membership Benefit$10,000Philanthropy$4,500Health$1,800Social Science$1,500Community Improvement$100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCING DREAMS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRANCES POPE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE4LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMUSICLAND GIFT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKENNY GORDON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 5.7% 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.

  • Who funds THE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds DANCING DREAMS ↗
  • Who funds FRANCES POPE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIVE4LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSICLAND GIFT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KENNY GORDON FOUNDATION ↗

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.

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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 Swerdlick Family Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Swerdlick Family Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 33 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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