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The Schlesinger 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.

$76k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
81%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$32,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$6k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 81% of the organizations The Schlesinger Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$76k50%
FY202316$35k81%
FY202212$38k58%
FY202111$400k36%
FY202015$397k67%
FY201910$389k30%
FY201815$78k60%
FY201713$67kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MReligion$154kHealth$67kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kHuman Services$22kPhilanthropy$20kYouth Development$8kArts & Culture$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
ID
MN
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($196k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Schlesinger Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOne Spirit Learning Alliance Ltd: $72,600 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetStorahtelling Lab Shul Inc: $51,492 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetOverlook Foundation: $42,220 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNew Jersey Seeds Inc: $32,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMarketing Research Education Foundation Inc: $29,340 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetDaughters of Miriam Center: $7,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Squash Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNourishnj Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDrm Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetThe Joseph School Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMorningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility Inc: $2,575 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTackle Tomorrow: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRestore NYC Inc: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanar Wellness Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGofundmeorg: $825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $777 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeloved Builders Inc: $554 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnity Charter School: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHidden Water Inc: $515 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKids in Crisis Inc: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlexs Lemonade Stand Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Malala Fund: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY14.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Ford Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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.

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Find your warmest path to The Schlesinger 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.

About The Schlesinger Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Schlesinger Family Foundation Inc give?
The Schlesinger Family Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $76,248 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Schlesinger Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (72%), Religion (10%), Health (4%).
Who are The Schlesinger Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc ($1.0M), One Spirit Learning Alliance Ltd ($73k), Storahtelling Lab Shul Inc ($51k).
Does The Schlesinger Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Schlesinger Family 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 Schlesinger Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey, The Ford Foundation.
Where is The Schlesinger Family Foundation Inc based?
The Schlesinger Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 68 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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