Delaware · Private foundation
The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation
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.
- $514k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $123,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $499k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $455k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $8.6M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $5.7M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $1.1M | 13% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Basic Fund | $2,330,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $1,825,000 | 5 | 9% |
| The Basic Fund Scholarship Foundation | $1,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Gastroenterological Association Institute | $1,388,750 | 1 | 4% |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $1,275,000 | 5 | 1% |
| International Center of Photography | $1,150,000 | 7 | 3% |
| American Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc | $900,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Victoria and Albert Museum Americas Foundation | $619,000 | 5 | 17% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $496,667 | 3 | 0% |
| Jerusalem Foundation Inc | $450,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation
- How much does The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation give?
- The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $513,922 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (25%), Philanthropy (22%).
- Who are The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Basic Fund ($2.3M), Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ($1.8M), The Basic Fund Scholarship Foundation ($1.5M).
- Does The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation 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 The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation based?
- The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation is based in DE.
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