· Private foundation
The Phyllis and Perry 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of THE PHYLLIS AND PERRY SCHWARTZ FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID | $20,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSN | $16,459 |
| CHAI LIFELINE | $10,628 |
| JAC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| LES TURNER ALS FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| VESTIBULAR DISORDERS ASSOC | $5,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK POLICE DEPT | $3,104 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $299 |
| THRESHHOLDS | $50 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TTTHE THRESHOLDS4× · 2021–2025 · $123k · revenue +38%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +53%- PSPlanting Seeds International2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- HIHELPHOPELIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +35%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
The organization was formed to be operated in perpetuity exclusively for charitable purposes.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Conduct and support clinical medical research in the field of gastroenterology.
To raise and distribute funds, goods, food, and assistance to the poverty-stricken in the jewish community.
Vitalant foundation secures and stewards charitable gifts to support vitalant's mission to unite blood and biologics donors, talent and innovation to save and improve lives.
Beyond celiac unites with patients and partners to drive diagnosis, advance research, and accelerate the discovery of new treatments and a cure.
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
ACF is dedicated to supporting and increasing philanthropy by making grants to tax exempt organizations for their charitable, educational, scientific, literary or other 501c3 activities; promoting donor education and engagement, and civic…
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helphopelive Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Thresholds. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
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- Who funds Planting Seeds International ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Jac Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds VESTIBULAR DISORDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Victims First Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MORAINE TOWNSHIP CHARITABLE FUND CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds 112 EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Phyllis and Perry Schwartz Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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