· Private foundation
The Irwin S Scherzer Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $15,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $13,431 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATER | $10,000 |
| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS | $10,000 |
| ATLANTIC THEATER CO | $10,000 |
| SECOND STAGE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $8,500 |
| THE FRICK COLLECTION | $5,500 |
| SIGNATURE THEATER | $5,000 |
| THE NEW GROUP | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $5,000 |
| MCC THEATER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2024 · $207k · revenue +58%
- NYNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +33%
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- NANATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 49 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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds ASPHALT GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES B WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Irwin S Scherzer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irwin S Scherzer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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