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The Edwin Schlossberg 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.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Youth Development$18kEducation$8kHealth$6kInternational$2kFood & Nutrition$1kRecreation & Sports$1kCivil Rights$1kEnvironment$750Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,516
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC$3,516
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%AQUINNAHGAY HEAD COMMUNITY ASSN: $250 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 18% of The Edwin Schlossberg Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 76% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 52% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Edwin Schlossberg Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 24% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25k · 3 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
21

Total granted

$25k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+19%

Still filing today

33%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TD
    THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue -9%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    2× · 2017–2023 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2019 · $2k

Funded once

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -2%
  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    one grant, 2017 · $550 · revenue +19%
  • C
    CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
2
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
3
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
4
New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc

The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.

5
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
6
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
7
Brooklyn Community Foundation

Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.

Philanthropy
8
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
9
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
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N Y C Mission Society

NYC Mission Society improves the lives of children, youth and families in the City's most underserved communities. Through programs and services that respond to community needs, we create cycles of success for generations to come.

Human Services
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jamestown Arts Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%66%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,739

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $17,820 · Arts & CultureTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC+1 more — $250 · Arts & CultureMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $5,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDIndividual grant recipient — $1,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $500 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION — $500 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC — $500 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $500 · OtherBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $500 · OtherFRESH AIR FUND — $500 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $500 · Other+3 more — $750 · Other+3 moreDONORSCHOOSEORG — $5,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEOR…Mercy Corps — $550 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $500 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $250 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR — $250 · InternationalVINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC — $500 · EnvironmentSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $250 · EnvironmentCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $500 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$18,070Other$11,500Education$5,000International$2,050Environment$750Food & Nutrition$500Community Improvement$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $17,820 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAquinnah Community Association Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Edwin Schlossberg Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Mercy Corps47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc3% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation2% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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