How much does The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc give?

The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc reported 55 grants totaling $343,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (42%), Education (17%), Environment (13%).

Who are The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Seeds of Peace Inc ($194k), Seva Foundation ($191k), Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc ($191k).

Does The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.

Where is The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc based?

The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc is based in DE.

The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc

The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Robert M Schiffman Foundation 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.

$344k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$809kEducation$320kEnvironment$255kCivil Rights$144kCrime & Legal$86kAnimals$78kHuman Services$57kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kOther$0

02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k46 grants · $147k
$10k–50k8 grants · $147k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MYRIAD USA INC	$50,000
MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INCORPORATED	$23,000
SEEDS OF PEACE INC	$22,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC	$22,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC	$20,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC	$17,000
STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC	$16,000
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY	$15,000
SEVA FOUNDATION	$12,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC	$7,000
CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC	$7,000
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER	$7,000
PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND	$7,000
OXFAM-AMERICA INC	$7,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED	$6,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 55 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

-19%

Still filing today

93%

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalAnimalsCivil RightsEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

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MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +37%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
5× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +98%
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +15%

Funded once

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DONORSCHOOSEORG
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -19%
GA
GAVI ALLIANCE
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -84%
HF
HARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -39%

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.

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science

Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition

City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 87 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/78

Grantees still filing

51/78

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$717,650Other$560,450Education$302,000Civil Rights$132,600Environment$75,000Community Improvement$67,000Human Services$66,500

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.

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 New York Community TrustNY16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Open Society Institute · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides 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 Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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