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The Schwartz Family Foundation at a glance

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The Schwartz Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.0MHealth$31kEducation$6kPhilanthropy$5kReligion$1kHousing & Shelter$1kHuman Services$800Food & Nutrition$350Other$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 44 grants below total $57,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $76,850 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,150 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $29k
$250
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Valley Hospital Foundation$28,500
W.H. Hendren Foundation - The Hendren Project$5,000
Brown University$5,000
Jewish Federation of NJ-Women's Division$5,000
The Metropolitan Opera$2,750
Ramapo College Foundation$1,000
Paterson Habitat for Humanity$1,000
Parlance Chamber Concert Music$1,000
Jewish Council of Cedar Crest$950
Forum School Foundation$500
Bergen Volunteer Medical Initative$500
New York Times Communiuties Fund$500
Healing Hooves of Colorado$500
West Bergen Mental Health$500
Cedar Crest Resident Care Fund$450
02The need
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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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $188k → 17%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $108k → 7%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $91k → 17%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $106k → 7%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $103k → 7%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $88k → 7%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $86k → 7%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $84k → 7%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $42k → 7%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 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
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
2
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
5
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
6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
7
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
8
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
9
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
10
National Center for Jewish Filminc

The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…

Arts & Culture
11
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
12
Holocaust Resource Foundation

See schedule o the holocaust resource foundation supports the holocaust resource center whose mission is to foster and reinforce awareness about the holocaust among students, teachers and community members and to apply the lessons to be…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Folk Art Museum; the most unlike its peers is Paws for Purple Hearts. 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

21 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. 21 of the 45 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $428,750 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART+7 more: $1,050 · Arts & CultureTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $28,500 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthJewish Federation of NJ-Women's Division: $5,000 · OtherW.H. Hendren Foundation - The Hendren Project: $5,000 · OtherThe Metropolitan Opera: $2,750 · OtherParlance Chamber Concert Music: $1,000 · OtherPATERSON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC SUBSIDIARY: $1,000 · OtherJewish Council of Cedar Crest: $950 · Other+25 more: $5,700 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Community ImprovementRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationEcoHealth Alliance Inc: $250 · AnimalsCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $250 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$429,800Health$28,750Other$21,400Community Improvement$5,000Education$1,000Animals$250Human Services$250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $428,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $28,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATERSON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC SUBSIDIARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForum School Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEcoHealth Alliance Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH JERSEY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALCYON FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Schwartz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schwartz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Schwartz Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Schwartz Family Foundation 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 45 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $42k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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