Stephen A Schwarzman Foundation

• The foundation does not accept unsolicited requests and works by invitation only, so a small charity should not send it a cold application.
• About 8 in 10 of its grants fall between $205,000 and $12,500,000, with a median of about $1,250,000, so a modest request is unlikely to match its usual grant size, though that band is typical rather than a ceiling.
• Its stated fields are education, culture, innovation and civic life, and it makes major gifts to leading institutions, so fit is most plausible for organisations working in those areas; the filing states no geographic focus.
• Repeat giving is strong, with 96% of its grant dollars going to organisations it had also funded in earlier filings, so this is a relationship-led funder where a new applicant should expect a long road.
• The filing gives no deadlines or application cycle, so there is no set timing to plan around.

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

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Support a building focused on promoting the application of artificial intelligence
  $25,585,1532024 tax year
• University of Oxford · Support a new center of academic, cultural and ethical inquiry
  $22,979,7002024 tax year
• Frick Collection · Support construction of state-of-the-art auditorium
  $7,314,1782024 tax year
• Chapel York Us Foundation Inc · Support construction of the goodwood art foundation, for presentation of international art and educational programs
  $3,988,4672024 tax year
• University of Oxford · Support the institute for ethics in ai to suppport an accelerator fellowship program
  $3,340,5912024 tax year
• Usa Track Field Foundation · Support u.s. track & field athletes at world championships & olympic competitions
  $2,605,5782024 tax year
• Inner-City Scholarship Fund · Support transitional scholarshiips to qualifying students enrolled in archdiocese schools
  $2,552,7322024 tax year
• American Associates of the National Theatre · Support funding of the theatre's stage and backstage facilities and technical infrastructure
  $2,040,1602024 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.