Funding search · EIN 061619844 · New York, NY

The Irwin S Scherzer Foundation

Name: The Irwin S Scherzer Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

102
grants reported: $508,020
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $3,430
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

extend financial worthy

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

102 grants matching “extend” · $508,020

$25,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$15,000
The Public Theater · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$13,431
The Metropolitan Opera · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Atlantic Theater Co · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Second Stage Theatre · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
New York Botanical Garden · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Central Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Playwrights Horizons · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Lincoln Center Theater · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$8,500
Manhattan Theatre Club · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,500
The Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
The New Group · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Signature Theater · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
McC Theater · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$3,860
Asphalt Green · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$3,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing a · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,500
Thater for New Audience · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,500
Wildlife Conservation Society · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
The Morgan Library and Museum · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
American Museum of Natural History · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,500
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,500
Cooper Hewitt · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations
$1,000
Chinatown Health Clinic Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
New York Historical Society · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$250
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$250
Nys Charity Bureau · Albany, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$60
Cornell Lab of Ornithology · Ithaca, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$50
The Wilderness Society · Washington, DC · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$50
Environmental Defese Fund · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$27,106
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$15,000
The Public Theater · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,159
The Metropolitan Opera · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Lincoln Center Theater · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Atlantic Theater Co · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Second Stage Theatre · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
New York Botanical Garden · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Central Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$8,500
Manhattan Theatre Club · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$7,000
Playwrights Horizons · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,500
McC Theater · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Samuel Merritt · Dothan, AL · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Signature Theater · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
The New Group · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$4,860
Asphalt Green · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$3,000
The Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$3,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing a · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,500
Wildlife Conservation Society · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,500
Thater for New Audience · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
The Morgan Library and Museum · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
American Museum of Natural History · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,500
Cooper Hewitt · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations
$1,000
New York Historical Society · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
Chinatown Health Clinic Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
Neue Galerie · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$300
The Wilderness Society · Washington, DC · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$250
Nys Charity Bureau · Albany, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$60
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology · Ithaca, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations
$-250
The Doe Fund · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$-250
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$-250
National Park Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$15,000
The Public Theater · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$13,062
The Metropolitan Opera · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$13,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing a · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Second Stage Theatre · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Atlantic Theater Co · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Playwrights Horizons · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
New York Botanical Garden · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Central Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$8,500
Manhattan Theatre Club · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$7,500
Wildlife Conservation Society · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
The New Group · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Chinatown Health Clinic Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Signature Theater · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
McC Theater · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$4,860
Asphalt Green · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$4,500
American Museum of Natural History · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,500
Thater for New Audience · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,500
The Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
The Morgan Library and Museum · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,750
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
New York Historical Society · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
Neue Galerie · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$500
The Doe Fund · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$500
Thirteen · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$250
Nys Charity Bureau · Albany, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$250
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$250
National Park Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$200
City Harvest · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$192
Citymeals-On-Wheels · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$100
Food Bank for Nyc · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$60
Ocean Conservatory · Washington, DC · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$60
Cornell Lab of Ornithology · Ithaca, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$50
National Parks Conservation Associa · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Metropolitan Museum of Art2 grants · $52,106
The Public Theater3 grants · $45,000
The Metropolitan Opera3 grants · $36,652
Second Stage Theatre3 grants · $30,000
New York Botanical Garden3 grants · $30,000
Central Park Conservancy3 grants · $30,000
Atlantic Theater Co3 grants · $30,000
Playwrights Horizons3 grants · $27,000
Manhattan Theatre Club3 grants · $25,500
Lincoln Center Theater2 grants · $20,000

Giving over time

$159,584

2022

$175,485

2023

$172,951

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 102 grants.

$27,106
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$25,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$15,000
The Public Theater · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$15,000
The Public Theater · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$15,000
The Public Theater · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$13,431
The Metropolitan Opera · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$13,062
The Metropolitan Opera · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$13,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing a · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,159
The Metropolitan Opera · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Atlantic Theater Co · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Central Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Lincoln Center Theater · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
New York Botanical Garden · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Playwrights Horizons · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Second Stage Theatre · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Atlantic Theater Co · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Central Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Lincoln Center Theater · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
New York Botanical Garden · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Second Stage Theatre · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Atlantic Theater Co · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Central Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
New York Botanical Garden · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Playwrights Horizons · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$10,000
Second Stage Theatre · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$8,500
Manhattan Theatre Club · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$8,500
Manhattan Theatre Club · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$8,500
Manhattan Theatre Club · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$7,500
Wildlife Conservation Society · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$7,000
Playwrights Horizons · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,500
The Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,500
McC Theater · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
McC Theater · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Signature Theater · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
The New Group · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Samuel Merritt · Dothan, AL · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Signature Theater · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
The New Group · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Chinatown Health Clinic Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
McC Theater · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Signature Theater · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
The New Group · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$5,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$4,860
Asphalt Green · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$4,860
Asphalt Green · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$4,500
American Museum of Natural History · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$3,860
Asphalt Green · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$3,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing a · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$3,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing a · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$3,000
The Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,500
Thater for New Audience · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,500
Wildlife Conservation Society · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,500
Thater for New Audience · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,500
Wildlife Conservation Society · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,500
Thater for New Audience · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,500
The Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
American Museum of Natural History · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
The Morgan Library and Museum · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
American Museum of Natural History · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
The Morgan Library and Museum · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$2,000
The Morgan Library and Museum · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,750
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,500
Cooper Hewitt · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations
$1,500
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,500
Cooper Hewitt · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations
$1,000
Chinatown Health Clinic Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
New York Historical Society · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
Chinatown Health Clinic Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
Neue Galerie · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
New York Historical Society · New York, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
Neue Galerie · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$1,000
New York Historical Society · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$500
The Doe Fund · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$500
Thirteen · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$300
The Wilderness Society · Washington, DC · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$250
Nys Charity Bureau · Albany, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$250
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$250
Nys Charity Bureau · Albany, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$250
National Park Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$250
Nys Charity Bureau · Albany, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$250
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$200
City Harvest · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$192
Citymeals-On-Wheels · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$100
Food Bank for Nyc · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$60
Cornell Lab of Ornithology · Ithaca, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$60
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology · Ithaca, NY · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations
$60
Cornell Lab of Ornithology · Ithaca, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$60
Ocean Conservatory · Washington, DC · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$50
Environmental Defese Fund · New York, NY · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$50
The Wilderness Society · Washington, DC · 2024
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$50
National Parks Conservation Associa · New York, NY · 2022
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.
$-250
National Park Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
To extend financial assistance to worthy organizations.

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