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The Edwin Schlossberg Foundation at a glance

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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
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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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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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Its 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. Its 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
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 18% of The Edwin Schlossberg Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 76% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 52%.

The Edwin Schlossberg Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 24% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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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 ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • 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%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +98%
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.

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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.

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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
10
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $500 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $500 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $500 · OtherFRESH AIR FUND: $500 · OtherCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $500 · Other+3 more: $750 · Other+3 moreDONORSCHOOSEORG: $5,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEOR…Mercy Corps: $550 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $500 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $250 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $250 · InternationalVINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC: $500 · EnvironmentSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $250 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500 · Crime & LegalFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $500 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$18,070Other$11,500Education$5,000International$2,050Environment$750Crime & Legal$500Community Improvement$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 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 budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER 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 budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetJAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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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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 Edwin Schlossberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edwin Schlossberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% 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, 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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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