Funding search · EIN 116447242 · Lloyd Harbor, NY
The Swartz Foundation
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 49
- grants reported
- $6.3M
- total given
- 2021–2024
- filing years
- $120,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
What they fund
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Funding pattern
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Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- Univ of Calif San Diego4 grants · $1.1M
- Brandeis University4 grants · $534,270
- Harvard University4 grants · $493,181
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory4 grants · $467,621
- Yale University3 grants · $437,894
- Princeton University3 grants · $386,000
- University of Washington3 grants · $377,640
- California Institute of Tech3 grants · $351,144
- Columbia Universtiy3 grants · $343,000
- New York University3 grants · $342,142
Giving over time
Grant history
All 49 reported grants, largest first.
- $360,000
Univ of Calif San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Fund Research
- $360,000
Univ of Calif San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2022
Fund Research
- $360,000
Univ of Calif San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2021
Fund Research
- $257,894
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2021
Fund research
- $200,000
University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2023
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- $165,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technolo · Cambridge, MA · 2024
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- $150,000
Shanah Swartz-Gordon Fidelity Daf · Lloyd Harbor, NY · 2024
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- $150,000
World Central Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2023
Humanitarian aid.
- $135,000
Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2024
Fund Research
- $135,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Fund Research
- $135,000
Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2023
Fund Research
- $135,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Fund Research
- $135,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
Fund Research
- $135,000
Columbia Universtiy · New York, NY · 2022
Fund Research
- $135,000
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Fund Research
- $135,000
Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2021
Fund Research
- $135,000
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2021
Fund Research
- $135,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Fund Research
- $132,394
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2022
Fund Research
- $132,142
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
Fund Research
- $129,270
Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2022
Fund Research
- $127,000
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2021
Fund Research
- $124,000
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Fund Research
- $122,640
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
Fund Research
- $120,000
California Institute of Tech · Pasadena, CA · 2021
Fund Research
- $120,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2021
Fund Research
- $119,144
California Institute of Tech · Pasadena, CA · 2022
Fund Research
- $115,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Fund Research
- $112,000
California Institute of Tech · Pasadena, CA · 2023
Fund Research
- $110,000
Columbia Universtiy · New York, NY · 2023
Fund Research
- $108,181
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Fund Research
- $106,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Fund Research
- $104,227
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2024
Fund Research
- $100,000
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Fund Research
- $100,000
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Fund Research
- $100,000
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Fund Research
- $100,000
Uja Federation of New York · New York, NY · 2022
Humanitarian aid.
- $100,000
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Fund Research
- $98,000
Columbia Universtiy · New York, NY · 2021
Fund Research
- $96,000
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory · Cold Spring Harbor, NY · 2023
Fund Research
- $75,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
Fund Research
- $75,000
The Salk Institute · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Fund Research
- $75,000
The Salk Institute · La Jolla, CA · 2022
Fund Research
- $74,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
Fund research
- $70,000
The Salk Institute · La Jolla, CA · 2021
Fund Research
- $40,753
Univ of Calif San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Fund Research
- $35,000
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
Fund Research
- $30,000
The Brearley School · New York, NY · 2024
Scholarship Fund
- $6,175
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2021
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