How much did THE SCHWEDEL FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE SCHWEDEL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

jewishgreater hartfordbloomfield

2020

hartfordjewishbloomfield

2021

hartfordjewishbloomfield

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $2k
$10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$50k–250k1 grant · $57k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

TEMPLE SINAI$56,780
NEW CANAAN LIBRARY$15,000
NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL$2,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$517k · 44 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$517k

$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+7%

Still filing today

39%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

NC
NEW CANAAN LIBRARY
7× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +21%
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
5× · 2017–2023 · $56k · revenue +21%
NC
NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
3× · 2019–2024 · $21k · revenue +185%

Funded once

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CONNCAN (CO 50CAN)
one grant, 2019 · $50k
NC
NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (THE DOME)
one grant, 2022 · $20k
NN
NCCF NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

University of Hartford

The university provides a learning environment in which students may transform themselves intellectually, personally and socially.

Education

Yale New Haven Hospital

To provide health care services.

Health

The Danbury Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health

Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education

Connecticut Trust for Historic

Interacts with other groups, individuals and organizations to encourage, advocate and facilitate historical preservation throughout connecticut.

Arts & Culture

The Connecticut Community Foundation

Foster equitable & inclusive community by inspiring generosity, supporting organizations & cultivating effective leaders.

Philanthropy

Connecticut Health Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

New Haven Center for Performing

The mission of the new haven center for performing arts is to promote and foster an appreciation for the performing arts through the ownership and operation of indoor and outdoor performing arts facilities; to serve the local community by…

Arts & Culture

The Stamford Hospital

Together with our physicians we provide a broad range of high-quality health and wellness services focused on the needs of our communities.

Health

Connecticut Bankers Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

Connecticut News Project Inc

The mission is to produce original, in-depth, nonpartisan journalism that informs connecticut residents about the impact of public policy, holds governments accountable, and amplifies diverse voices and perspectives.

Arts & Culture

Stamford Health Inc

Stamford health, inc. is a supporting organization whose mission is to support its affiliate organizations: the stamford hospital and shmg.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the most unlike its peers is Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1/24

the rest of the field

1,462/16,737

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/23

Grantees still filing

17/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$336,143Education$219,850Philanthropy$46,800Health$15,500Human Services$11,620Youth Development$1,250Arts & Culture$1,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Silverleaf Foundation Inc · Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family · Fishman Family Foundation · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family · Jeniam Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE SCHWEDEL FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BLOOMFIELD VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE FUND INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 060957252 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BLOOMFIELD VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE FUND INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Schwedel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Schwedel Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE SCHWEDEL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Schwedel Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE SCHWEDEL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Schwedel Foundation?

More from the funding graph