Connecticut · Private foundation
The Schwedel 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.
- $89k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Schwedel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $81k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $74k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $111k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $110k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $61k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $56k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $97k | 19% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $49k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The New Canaan Library Inc | $121,750 | 7 | 1% |
| Temple Sinai | $100,959 | 7 | n/a |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $75,500 | 6 | 0% |
| 50can Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Achievement First Inc | $28,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Beth Sholom B'Nai Israel | $17,600 | 7 | n/a |
| Kingswood Oxford School Inc | $16,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind | $11,620 | 6 | 0% |
| Hartford Hospital | $8,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Schwedel Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · The Debard Johnson Foundation Inc · O'Connor Family Foundation · The Morris Family Foundation · MLE Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ansonia Foundation Advisory Ac · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Schwedel Foundation
- How much does The Schwedel Foundation give?
- The Schwedel Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $89,435 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Schwedel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Religion (18%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are The Schwedel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The New Canaan Library Inc ($122k), Temple Sinai ($101k), The Trustees of Princeton University ($76k).
- Does The Schwedel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Schwedel 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 Schwedel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, Hobbs Family Charitable Trust, Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Schwedel Foundation based?
- The Schwedel Foundation is based in CT.
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