New York · Private foundation
The Donna and Marvin Schwartz 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.
- $9.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $208M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.1M 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 | 22 | $7.4M | 32% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $6.4M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $8.8M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $181k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $1.9M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $666k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $4.2M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 64 | $6.3M | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Neuberger Berman Foundation | $450,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Horace Mann School | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $279,200 | 4 | 0% |
| The Baruch College Fund | $251,375 | 4 | 1% |
| The Doe Fund Inc | $194,500 | 2 | 0% |
| American Folk Art Museum | $192,500 | 5 | 2% |
| New York Botanical Garden | $180,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Emory University | $160,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New York Historical Society | $129,900 | 6 | 0% |
| Bideawee Inc | $121,560 | 4 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($37M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 98 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Peckham Family Foundation · The Goldstein Family Foundation · Yvonne & Leslie Pollack Family Foundation Inc · Lanbro Foundation · The Richardson Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Hycliff Foundation · The Grunebaum Family Fund · The Worby Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation with peer funders
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About The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation
- How much does The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation give?
- The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $9,371,184 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (91%), Arts & Culture (2%), Education (2%).
- Who are The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Neuberger Berman Foundation ($450k), Horace Mann School ($400k), Central Park Conservancy Inc ($279k).
- Does The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Donna and Marvin Schwartz 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 Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, Peckham Family Foundation.
- Where is The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation based?
- The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation is based in NY.
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