Schwarz Foundation

• Schwarz Foundation operates by invitation only and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold application is unlikely to get anywhere; focus on building a relationship rather than sending a formal proposal.
• Its recorded grants support public charities in fields such as Israeli higher education, Jewish education and community services, cancer care, Holocaust remembrance, child welfare, public media and local emergency response, so check your work matches one of these areas first.
• A modest request fits best: half of its 80 grants across its recent filings were $24,000 or less, and about eight in ten of its 80 grants fall between $1,000 and $420,000, though it has also made one much larger grant, about $1,900,000, to PEF Israel Endowment Funds, an organisation it funds every year that regrants to other organisations.
• The foundation looks highly relationship-led: 98% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had also funded in its prior filings, so a newcomer faces a steep climb.
• No geographic focus is stated, though its grants are mainly found in New York and Massachusetts.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• PEF Israel Endowment Funds · Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.
  $1,880,0002024 tax year
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology · Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.
  $420,0002024 tax year
• Americans for Ben-Gurion University · Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.
  $420,0002024 tax year
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum · Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.
  $320,0002024 tax year
• American Friends of the Hebrew University · Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.
  $300,0002024 tax year
• Semper Fi & America's Fund · Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.
  $200,0002024 tax year
• American Friends of Magen David Adom · Unrestricted grant to support the organization's exempt purpose.
  $200,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.