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The Bela and Catharine Schick Foundation Inc C/O Robert Kalik at a glance

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The Bela and Catharine Schick Foundation Inc C/O Robert Kalik

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$195kEducation$81kYouth Development$18kHuman Services$3k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$512k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION$7,500
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP ANNUAL GIVING$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CENTER$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$5,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$5,000
SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$3,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$3,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$289k · 13 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$289k
$5k

Still filing today

62%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +31%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +39%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • MP
    MAHOPAC PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • MP
    MAHOPACK PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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10
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is Center for Hearing and Communication. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION: $67,500 · OtherCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATIONWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $35,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CENTER: $18,500 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CENTEREVERY CHILD VALUED: $17,500 · OtherEVERY CHILD VALUEDWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $17,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINESHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $12,000 · OtherSHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN+3 more: $4,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $42,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDA…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $37,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…THE CHILDREN'S HEARING INSTITUTE INC: $11,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S H…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $9,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITA…CALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $6,500 · HealthCALVARY HOSPITAL…FRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $3,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF KAREN…THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$172,000Education$79,000Health$42,000Human Services$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION: $67,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $37,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HEARING INSTITUTE INC: $11,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 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.

  • Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HEARING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF KAREN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION 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.

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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 The Bela and Catharine Schick Foundation Inc C/O Robert Kalik funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bela and Catharine Schick Foundation Inc C/O Robert Kalik. 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 →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–10%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Bela and Catharine Schick Foundation Inc C/O Robert Kalik 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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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