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The Eric & Erica Schwartz Family Foundat at a glance

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The Eric & Erica Schwartz Family Foundat

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.3MPhilanthropy$525kHealth$505kReligion$211kArts & Culture$161kSocial Science$140kEducation$55kEnvironment$44kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$25,000
SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICES$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $346k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $145k → 7%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $75k → 7%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $75k → 7%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 7%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 7%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 17%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 9 repeat orgs$467k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$2.6M
$466k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+13%

Still filing today

78%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionSocial ScienceOther
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

  • CITY HARVEST INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +3%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $500k · revenue +46%
  • JB
    JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $345k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +8%
  • TB
    THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $140k · revenue +46%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -55%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health
10
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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 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

21 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. 21 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY HARVEST INC: $1,338,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INCUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEA…FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyJOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $140,000 · OtherJOHN SIMON GUGGENHE…PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $86,000 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOG…PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $75,000 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOG…PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $50,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF JCC KRAK…MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $38,500 · OtherMADISON SQUARE PARK…NEW RENAISSANCE BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · OtherNEW RENAISSANCE BAS…AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $25,000 · Other+7 more: $51,900 · Other+7 moreJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $345,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH BOARD…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $150,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $140,000 · Social ScienceTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Education
Food & Nutrition$1,338,000Philanthropy$525,000Other$521,400Human Services$346,000Health$160,000Social Science$140,000Education$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,338,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $345,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $140,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $38,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW RENAISSANCE BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNCGA FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Eric & Erica Schwartz Family Foundat funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eric & Erica Schwartz Family Foundat. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Eric & Erica Schwartz Family Foundat?

    Find your warmest path to The Eric & Erica Schwartz Family Foundat 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 25 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.

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