· Private foundation
The Harry M & Gertrude y 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
79% of The Harry M & Gertrude y Schwartz Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Harry M & Gertrude y Schwartz Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $54k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k26 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEAN ENERGY TRUST | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE | $3,600 |
| MORIAH CONGREGATION | $3,400 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL (WASHINGTON DC) | $2,900 |
| CONGREGATION BETH JUDEA | $2,500 |
| STANFORD LAW SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW | $2,500 |
| UNIV OF CHICAGO COLLEGE FUND | $2,500 |
| SECOND SENSE | $2,000 |
| HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE | $1,800 |
| BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| INVEST FOR KIDS | $1,000 |
| INTONATION MUSIC | $1,000 |
| WATERS TODAY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 77% of The Harry M & Gertrude y Schwartz Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2018, 5 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ECEVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS3× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +56%
- SSSECOND SENSE2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +12%
- SISIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- AIADAS ISRAEL CONG- WASHINGTONone grant, 2017 · $23k
- UOUNIV OF CHICAGO-URBAN EDUC INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $20k
- CFCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGEone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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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How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND SENSE ↗
- Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Waters ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds INTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ↗
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 Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Harry M & Gertrude y Schwartz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harry M & Gertrude y Schwartz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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