· Private foundation
The Jess and Sheila Schwartz Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHOENIX HEBREW ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| GESHER DISABILITY RESOURCES | $13,000 |
| CJP- CENTER FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPY | $8,000 |
| CHABAD OF CORONADO | $5,000 |
| ARIZONA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $5,000 |
| PHOENIX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PARDES DAY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH | $3,000 |
| MOISHE HOUSE | $3,000 |
| FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MINKOFF CENTER FOR JEWISH GENETICS | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 6% of The Jess and Sheila Schwartz Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 78%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSChrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +38%
- GDGESHER DISABILITY RESOURCES INC3× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +90%
- VOVALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC2× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- PPRIZMAHone grant, 2018 · $18k
- TUTORAH UMESORAHone grant, 2019 · $10k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION VIOLINS FOR HOPEone grant, 2018 · $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
41 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. 41 of the 66 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 Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GESHER DISABILITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Minkoff Center for Jewish Genetics ↗
- Who funds VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Jewish Historical Society ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHABAD OF CORONADO ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHOENIX JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE AZ ↗
- Who funds Friends of Children United Society ↗
- Who funds KIDS NEED TO READ ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital 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 Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Friedel Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Jewish Community Association of Greater Phoenix · William S & Ina Levine Foundation Inc · Joseph & May Winston Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · The Breslow Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Goldberg Ben Mem Trust-Ca
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jess and Sheila Schwartz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jess and Sheila Schwartz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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