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The Schawbel Family Foundation Inc

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.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$291kEducation$186kCommunity Improvement$150kAnimals$100kInternational$76kHealth$55kEmployment$25kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$90k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JA WORLDWIDE INC$100,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$50,000
EDVESTORS INC$25,000
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 (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $3k → 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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 6 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$1.8M
$226k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
+88%

Still filing today

50%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24
EducationEmploymentYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.2M
  • JW
    JA WORLDWIDE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $151k · revenue +53%
  • CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue -13%

Funded once

  • ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +33%
  • TR
    THE REGIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR PEACE ECONOMICS & SECURITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +110%
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
Bpe Inc

Bpe drives exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by boston's students…

Education
2
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
5
Junior Achievement of Maine Inc

The mission of junior achievement of maine is to inspire and prepare young people to own their economic success.

International
6
Up Education Network

The principal intent of the organization is to conduct activities to advance education reform in public schools, including public charter schools. specifically, the organization will engage in activities to support and transform…

Education
7
Bpe Inc

Bpe's mission is to drive exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by…

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8
Junior Achievement of Southern Ma

Junior achievement of southern massachusetts is part of the world's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skill they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and…

International
9
Junior Achievement of Western Massachusetts Inc

Junior achievement of western massachusetts is part of the world's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for the future, and make smart academic and…

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10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
12
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Greater Boston Inc; the most unlike its peers is Breaktime United 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,172,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $137,746 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTTHE REGIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR PEACE ECONOMICS & SECURITY INC: $50,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $50,000 · OtherCRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH: $50,000 · Other+4 more: $4,590 · OtherJA WORLDWIDE INC: $151,000 · EducationJA WORLDWIDE IN…EDVESTORS INC: $125,000 · EducationEDVESTORS INC+1 more: $1,000 · EducationCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $150,000 · EmploymentCENTER FO…BREAKTIME UNITED INC: $25,000 · EmploymentBREAKTIME…ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $100,000 · AnimalsJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $25,000 · InternationalBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$1,464,436Education$277,000Employment$175,000Animals$100,000International$25,000Youth Development$12,000Health$5,000Human Services$3,000

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 budgetJA WORLDWIDE INC: $151,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetEDVESTORS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC: $1,000 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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Richard & Susan Smith…Liberty Mutual Founda…Fidelity FoundationWellington Management…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…Highland Street Conne…Rockland Trust Charit…Cummings Foundation G…American Tower Corpor…The Blackbaud Giving …
Boston Foundation IncMA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Wellington Management Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Schawbel Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schawbel Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Boston Debate League Incorporated: 7% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Edvestors Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report 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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How do I get to The Schawbel Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Schawbel Family Foundation 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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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