How much does The Schwartz Creed Foundation give?

The Schwartz Creed Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $2,364,992 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Schwartz Creed Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (24%), International (14%).

Who are The Schwartz Creed Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Judith Creed Horizons for Achieving Independence ($3.1M), Education Initiatives Inc ($1.9M), Foundations Inc ($1.7M).

Does The Schwartz Creed Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Schwartz Creed Foundation 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 Schwartz Creed Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Foundation, Katz Family Charitable Trust.

Where is The Schwartz Creed Foundation based?

The Schwartz Creed Foundation is based in NJ.

The Schwartz Creed Foundation

The Schwartz Creed Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Schwartz Creed 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.

$2.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.3M

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.7MHealth$3.3MInternational$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.3MHuman Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$180kArts & Culture$155kReligion$117kOther$0

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $25k
$10k–50k2 grants · $53k
$50k–250k2 grants · $310k
$250k+3 grants · $2.0M

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC	$1,337,000
J'CHAI	$340,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS	$300,000
FOUNDATIONS INC	$222,583
LA CASA DOMINICANA OF NEW JERSEY INC	$87,859
BETHESDA PROJECT	$40,000
PHILADELPHIA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE	$12,500
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES	$7,500
GLASSBORO BOARD OF EDUCATION	$5,000
CONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM	$4,500
WHYY	$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$2,000
ROTARY CLUB OF CHESTNUT HILL	$1,000
KINGSWAY LEARNING CENTER	$1,000
LAUREL HOUSE	$750

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, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

$12M · 39 repeat orgs$530k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+11%

Still filing today

54%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalReligionOther

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

FI
FOUNDATIONS INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +88%
BP
BETHESDA PROJECT
5× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +30%
FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC
2× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +13%

Funded once

DB
DISABILITY BELONGS
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -8%
U2
UNITED 2 CARE
one grant, 2021 · $20k
SU
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2020 · $14k

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.

Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…

Human Services

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education

Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education

Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education

Philadelphia Health Partnership

Health

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

The Children's Institute Parent Company

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education

The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia; the most unlike its peers is The Schultz-Hill Foundation. 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

43 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. 43 of the 80 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)

43/43

Grantees still filing

27/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,046,540Human Services$3,306,300Education$1,912,812International$1,582,900Philanthropy$1,286,000Housing & Shelter$170,000Arts & Culture$123,695

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.

Jewish Federation of Greater PhiladelphiaPA23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The Philadelphia Foundation · Katz Family Charitable Trust · The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Neubauer Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Snider Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Sam and Kate Sidewater Foundation · The Green Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Honickman Foundation · Seed the Dream 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 Schwartz Creed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schwartz Creed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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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