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The Schiff Foundation Incorporated

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$667k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.9MArts & Culture$1.2MHousing & Shelter$450kCrime & Legal$425kFood & Nutrition$325kCivil Rights$150kEnvironment$25kInternational$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $475k
  • $250k+1 grant · $667k
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION$666,667
THE ARTS INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$200,000
MERCY HOUSING LAKE FRONT$75,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$75,000
IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA$75,000
MAZON$50,000
ALL BLESSINGS FLOW$10,000
IRIS$10,000
THE ALZHEIMERS DISEASE&RELATED DISORDERS ASSOC INC$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $25k → 16%THE ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $100k → 11%IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MN: $100k → 14%MAZON: $50k → 14%American Parkinson's Disease Association: $50k → 11%Planned Parenthood Federation of America: $125k → 17%MAZON A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER: $50k → 14%THE ARTS INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $200k → 14%Organization for Autism Research: $100k → 7%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $25k → 8%UNIVOF VIRGINIA: $667k → 22%THE ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $50k → 11%IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MN: $100k → 14%American Parkinson's Disease Association: $25k → 11%Planned Parenthood Federation of America: $125k → 17%MAZON A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER: $50k → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $200k → 14%Blue Ridge Intl Ophtalmology DBA IRIS: $25k → 8%UNIVOF VIRGINIA: $667k → 22%IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $75k → 14%American Parkinson's Disease Association: $25k → 11%Planned Parenthood Federation of America: $125k → 17%MAZON A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER: $50k → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $200k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $667k → 22%IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MN: $75k → 14%American Parkinson's Disease Association: $25k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $75k → 17%MAZON A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER: $50k → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $150k → 14%UNIVOF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $380k → 22%IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MN: $75k → 14%Planned Parenthood Federation of America: $50k → 17%MAZON A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER: $25k → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $125k → 14%UNIVOF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $325k → 22%Planned Parenthood Federation of America: $30k → 17%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $125k → 14%UNIVOF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200k → 22%Planned Parenthood Federation of America: $30k → 17%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $100k → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $100k → 14%MERCY HOUSING LAKE FRONT: $75k → 14%MERCY HOUSING LAKE FRONT: $75k → 14%MERCY HOUSING LAKE FRONT: $75k → 14%MERCY HOUSING LAKE FRONT: $75k → 14%MERCY HOUSING LAKE FRONT: $50k → 14%MERCY HOUSING LAKE FRONT: $50k → 14%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 13 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$6.5M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+42%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +20%
  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +45%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $585k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERgraduated
    3× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +42%
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue -7%
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
3
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
6
American Association of Kidney Patients Inc

AAKP is dedicated to improving the lives and long-term outcome of kidney patients. Cont on Sch O.

Health
7
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
8
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
9
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
10
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,621,667 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATIONTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,200,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGOUNIVOF VIRGINIA: $1,333,334 · OtherUNIVOF VIRGINIAIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $425,000 · OtherIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA IN…MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $325,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger+2 more: $35,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $585,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOO…ORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH: $125,000 · HealthORGANIZATION FOR …AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $125,000 · HealthAMERICAN PARKINSO…Rush University Medical Center: $50,000 · HealthALL BLESSINGS FLOW INC: $50,000 · HealthBLUE RIDGE INTERNATIONAL OPHTHALMOLOGY INC: $45,000 · Health+2 more: $30,000 · HealthMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $450,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Advocates For Human Rights: $150,000 · International
Education$2,821,667Other$2,118,334Health$1,010,000Housing & Shelter$450,000International$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,621,667 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $585,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $450,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $425,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $325,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights: $150,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH: $125,000 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $125,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALL BLESSINGS FLOW INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBLUE RIDGE INTERNATIONAL OPHTHALMOLOGY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Schiff Foundation Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schiff Foundation Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Schiff Foundation Incorporated?

    Find your warmest path to The Schiff Foundation Incorporated 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 17 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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