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The Joan Schechtman Foundation for the Arts & Sciences Inc at a glance

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The Joan Schechtman Foundation for the Arts & Sciences Inc

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.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$135kArts & Culture$76kScience & Tech$65kEnvironment$51kFood & Nutrition$12kHousing & Shelter$12kHuman Services$2kEmployment$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COX SCIENCE CENTER & AQUARIUM EDUC DEV DEPT$25,000
ST ANN PLACE$12,000
MALTA HOUSE OF GOOD COUNSEL$10,000
THE FRICK COLLECTION$5,200
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $150) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNBOUND: $100 → 16%UNBOUND: $50 → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
NE
KS
DC
GA
FL
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$191k · 11 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
22

Total granted

$191k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+37%

Still filing today

82%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHousing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TS
    The Society of the Four Arts Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +585%
  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +23%
  • HM
    Healthy MothersHealthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $36k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +25%
  • BU
    BOSTON UNIVERSITY MED CTR
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SA
    ST ANN'S PLACE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
4
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
6
Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…

Arts & Culture
7
The Newark Museum Association

Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Berggruen Institute
Education
10
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
11
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
12
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Unbound. 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

17 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. 17 of the 36 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOSTON UNIVERSITY MED CTR: $25,000 · OtherBOSTON UNIVERSITY MED CTRST ANN'S PLACE: $25,000 · OtherST ANN'S PLACECOX SCIENCE CENTER: $15,000 · OtherCOX SCIENCE CENTERST ANN PLACE: $12,000 · OtherST ANN PLACETHE NY BOTANICAL GARDEN: $11,000 · OtherTHE NY BOTANICAL GARDENMALTA HOUSE OF GOOD COUNSEL: $10,000 · OtherMALTA HOUSE OF GOOD COUNSELNORTON MUSEUM: $10,000 · OtherNORTON MUSEUMBOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherBOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOLThe Frick Collection: $5,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+11 more: $7,295 · Other+11 moreThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $55,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts IncCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCox Science Center and Aquarium In…+3 more: $4,900 · Arts & CultureHealthy MothersHealthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County Inc: $36,000 · HealthHealthy MothersHeal…BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $25,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENT…NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $40,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOT…+2 more: $150 · EnvironmentMALTA HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC: $1,250 · Housing & ShelterTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $630 · EducationUnbound: $150 · Human ServicesFRESH AIR FUND: $125 · Recreation & Sports
Other$135,495Arts & Culture$109,900Health$61,000Environment$40,150Housing & Shelter$11,250Education$630Human Services$150Recreation & Sports$125

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHealthy MothersHealthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County Inc: $36,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE INC: $3,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $630 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $50 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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Joan Schechtman Foundation for the Arts & Sciences Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joan Schechtman Foundation for the Arts & Sciences Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Laurel House Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Joan Schechtman Foundation for the Arts & Sciences Inc 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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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