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Schoenheimer Foundation

New York, NY · EIN 13-3055927. Reported 63 grants totalling $360,315 to 41 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$360,315granted, 2020-2023
41organizations funded
29%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,392,351assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Schoenheimer Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $3,000; the smallest was $175 and the largest $70,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
22 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
28 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science IncNew York, NY$160,000332023
American Committee for the WeizmanNew York, NY$70,000112022
American Friends of Magen David AdomNew York, NY$25,000112022
Hawaii Food BankHonolulu, HI$13,026332023
American Friends of Rabin Medical CenterNew York, NY$12,000222021
The Art Therapy ProjectNew York, NY$10,835442023
Myriad USANew York, NY$10,000112023
Sag Harbor Community Food PantrySag Harbor, NY$7,500222023
Share Hope FoundationNew York, NY$5,500222021
King Baudouin Foundation United StatesNew York, NY$5,000112021
Montauk Food PantryMontauk, NY$5,000112023
King Baudouin FoundationNew York, NY$3,090112020
Congregation Sof Ma'aravHonolulu, HI$2,804222023
Making Headway FoundationChappaqua, NY$2,500332022
Montauk Playhouse Community CenterMontauk, NY$2,500112020
New York Botanical GardenBronx, NY$2,275332023
Oahu Jewish OhanaHonolulu, HI$2,000222021
Peconic Land TrustSouthampton, NY$2,000112021
Tech Kids UnlimitedBrooklyn, NY$2,000222023
Museum of Moderm ArtNew York, NY$1,750332023
Friends of the Montauk LibraryMontauk, NY$1,700222021
Share Hope IncNew York, NY$1,500112023
Jewish Community CenterNew York, NY$1,000112020
Jewish Community Services of HawaiiHonolulu, HI$1,000112021
Jewish Fund NjMaplewood, NJ$1,000112021
PEACE4KIDSCompton, CA$1,000112020
Planned ParenthoodWashington, DC$1,000112021
Preserve New YorkAlbany, NY$1,000112021
School Year AbroadNorth Andover, MA$1,000112020
The John Abercrombie Jazz Scholarship FundWoodside, CA$750222021
Museum of Modern ArtNew York, NY$600112022
First TeeSt Augustine, FL$500112020
Jewish Community ServicesNew York, NY$500112023
Nashville Food ProjectNashville, TN$500112021
University of HawaiiHonolulu, HI$500112020
USCLos Angeles, CA$500112020
Longhouse ReserveEast Hampton, NY$475222023
Alliance of Artists CommunitiesProvidence, RI$300112022
Berklee CollegeBoston, MA$250112020
New Orleans Aboartion FundNew Orleans, LA$250112021
Metroplitan Museum of ArtNew York, NY$210112023

15 of 41 (37%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 29%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

International Affairs
8 grants
Food & Nutrition
7 grants
Education
6 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants
Environment
4 grants
Medical Research
3 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Youth Development
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202021$77,266$1,000
202121$88,960$1,000
20227$100,929$1,804
202314$93,160$1,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 93% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$334K
Hawaii
$19K
California
$2K
Massachusetts
$1K
New Jersey
$1K
District of Columbia
$1K
Tennessee
$500
Florida
$500

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc19 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust16 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program12 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Schoenheimer Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 501 E 79TH St 19A, New York, NY, 10075. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 13-3055927 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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