The Charles E. Scheidt Family Foundation concentrates its philanthropy on preventing mass atrocities and preserving Jewish history and memory. Its grants are large and targeted, funding institutional programs that advance genocide prevention, refugee protection, and public history related to the Holocaust and Jewish heritage. The foundation favors established institutions and programmatic initiatives rather than broad, general operating support.
A $762,860 grant to the Foundation of the State University of New York at Binghamton for the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention shows the Charles E Scheidt Family Foundation’s center of gravity: large, targeted support for preventing mass atrocities and preserving Jewish history and memory. The foundation backs institutional programs rather than broad general support, with grants that connect academic research, training, public history, and refugee protection. In 2025, it also funded the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide for its Refugee Protection Program, including work in El Salvador, Bosnia, and Thailand, alongside support for legal advocacy tied to refugee family reunification and resettlement. Its portfolio reaches museums, universities, human rights clinics, and Holocaust-focused institutions, including the Leo Baeck Institute, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Yeshiva University. The result is a grantmaking pattern built around specialized expertise and programmatic initiatives in genocide prevention, refugee protection, and Jewish historical memory.
In genocide and mass atrocity prevention, the foundation made a $762,860 grant to the Foundation of the State University of New York at Binghamton for the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and a $90,000 renewal to New York University for the Prevention Project at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. It also supported the University of Connecticut Foundation with $70,000 for the Scheidt Family Seminar on Genocide Studies and Prevention. On refugee protection, it gave $349,917 and $234,675 to the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide for its Refugee Protection Program, including work in El Salvador, Bosnia, and Thailand, and $150,000 to the International Refugee Assistance Project for litigators in the EU. For Holocaust and Jewish public history, it provided $200,000 to the Leo Baeck Institute for public history efforts and collections work.
The 2025 grant list is led by one very large award, then steps down into a cluster of mid-sized program grants in the $90,000 to $25,000 range. The median grant in the listed recent awards is $36,000, with the lower quartile at $25,000 and the upper quartile at $100,000. The foundation is a private foundation, and the pattern is programmatic rather than unrestricted, though a few grants are labeled general and unrestricted. Recipients recur across years in the file, including the Auschwitz Institute, Leo Baeck Institute, Hyde and Stockton University Foundation, suggesting ongoing institutional relationships rather than one-off gifts.
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About 0% of grants go to recipients in NY.
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Highly concentrated giving: a small number of large grants to a few institutional grantees, including repeat support for the same organizations and program-specific funding rather than many small awards.
Notable grantees: Foundation of the State University of New York (Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention), Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide, Leo Baeck Institute
All listed recent grants went to U.S. recipients. New York City appears repeatedly, with grants to institutions there including the Auschwitz Institute, Leo Baeck Institute, New York University, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and others. Other recipient locations include Binghamton, New Haven, Washington, DC, Storrs, West Point, Galaway in New Jersey, Los Angeles, and Burlington. The grant list also includes a project with work in El Salvador, Bosnia, and Thailand through the Auschwitz Institute, even though the grantee itself is U.S.-based.
Its grants center on genocide and mass atrocity prevention, refugee protection, and Holocaust and Jewish public history. Recent awards include support for an institute at Binghamton, refugee protection programming through the Auschwitz Institute, and public history work at the Leo Baeck Institute.
Yes. Recent grants include $100,000 to Yeshiva University for a Human Rights Clinical Teaching Fellowship, $97,400 to the University of Southern California for the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, and $36,000 to Yale University for the Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism.
In the recent grants listed, the median award is $36,000. The lower quartile is $25,000 and the upper quartile is $100,000, though the list also includes larger grants such as $762,860 and $349,917.
The Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide appears twice with grants of $349,917 and $234,675. Leo Baeck Institute Inc also appears twice, with $200,000 for public history efforts and $18,000 for a 70th anniversary fund. Stockton University Foundation appears three times in the list.
The recent grant list shows U.S. recipients only. New York, NY appears most often, with additional grants to Binghamton, New Haven, Washington, DC, Storrs, West Point, Galloway, Los Angeles, and Burlington.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT | BINGHAMTON, NY | $762,860 | 2025 | Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention |
| AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE | NEW YORK, NY | $349,917 | 2025 | AIPG Refugee Protection Program |
| AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE | NEW YORK, NY | $234,675 | 2025 | AIPG Refugee Protection Program in El Salvador, Bosnia, and Thailand |
| LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC | NEW YORK, NY | $200,000 | 2025 | Public History efforts and to Director of Collections |
| INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC | NEW YORK, NY | $150,000 | 2025 | Support to hire litigators in the EU to help bring down systemic barriers to refugee family reunification and resettlement |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY | NEW YORK, NY | $100,000 | 2025 | Human Rights Clinical Teaching Fellowship |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | LOS ANGELES, CA | $97,400 | 2025 | USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | NEW YORK, NY | $90,000 | 2025 | Renewal of support for the Prevention Project hosted by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | STORRS, CT | $70,000 | 2025 | Scheidt Family Seminar on Genocide Studies and Prevention |
| HIAS INC | WASHINGTON, DC | $54,000 | 2025 | Religious Minorities Fund |
| LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM | NEW YORK, NY | $50,000 | 2025 | Tenement Museum Virtual Field Trip Capacity Building project |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | NEW HAVEN, CT | $36,000 | 2025 | Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism |
| OLGA LENGYEL INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES AND H | NEW YORK, NY | $36,000 | 2025 | General & Unrestricted |
| HIAS INC | WASHINGTON, DC | $36,000 | 2025 | Housing Guarantee Fund |
| LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM | NEW YORK, NY | $30,000 | 2025 | Virtual Field Trip Program marketing budget |
| STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | GALLOWAY, NJ | $25,000 | 2025 | Graduate Scholarship Fund for the Study of Refugees and Displacement |
| EDUCATORS INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS | WASHINGTON, DC | $25,000 | 2025 | General & Unrestricted |
| STO TE NEMA INC | NEW YORK, NY | $25,000 | 2025 | General & Unrestricted |
| ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC | NEW YORK, NY | $25,000 | 2025 | General & Unrestricted |
| ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILI | WEST POINT, NY | $25,000 | 2025 | West Point Resnick Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Fund for New Initiatives |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | WASHINGTON, DC | $25,000 | 2025 | General & Unrestricted |
| LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC | NEW YORK, NY | $18,000 | 2025 | 70th Anniversary Fund |
| STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | GALLOWAY, NJ | $12,500 | 2025 | MAHG Study Tour Fund |
| GLOBAL CHILDRENS ART PROGRAMME | NEW YORK, NY | $10,000 | 2025 | for the building of the school and toilets in Kindiri, Chad |
| VERMONT PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES LEITENBERG CENTER F | BURLINGTON, VT | $10,000 | 2025 | NESTT and Connecting Cultures |
| STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | GALLOWAY, NJ | $5,000 | 2025 | Refugee Studies Initiative to support a collaboration on a workshop at the Kreisky Forum in Vienna |
| FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT | BINGHAMTON, NY | $543,005 | 2024 | Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocities Prevention |
| AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE | NEW YORK, NY | $402,300 | 2024 | AIPG Refugee Protection Program in El Salvador, Bosnia, and Thailand |
| LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC | NEW YORK, NY | $200,000 | 2024 | to support the Public History efforts and to Director of Collections |
| CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE | SAINT PAUL, MN | $94,000 | 2024 | CVT's Program in Ukraine |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | NEW YORK, NY | $90,000 | 2024 | Project to develop a systematic approach to Prevention |
| AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE | NEW YORK, NY | $80,000 | 2024 | Support initial year of US Lemkin Seminars |
| STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | GALLOWAY, NJ | $60,000 | 2024 | Refugee Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship Fund |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | WASHINGTON, DC | $50,000 | 2024 | to support the Simon-Skjodt Center and the Museum |
| PRO PUBLICA INC | NEW YORK, NY | $50,000 | 2024 | In support of reporting on refugees and immigration |
| FRACTURED ATLAS INC | HARTSDALE, NY | $45,000 | 2024 | Exodus Reverse, a sponsored project under the oversight of Fractured Atlas |
| LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM | NEW YORK, NY | $30,000 | 2024 | Virtual Field Trip Program marketing budget |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | WASHINGTON, DC | $25,000 | 2024 | General & Unrestricted |
| STO TE NEMA INC | NEW YORK, NY | $25,000 | 2024 | Website creation and annual stipend for artist |
| OLGA LENGYEL INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES AND H | NEW YORK, NY | $25,000 | 2024 | General & Unrestricted |
| ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC | NEW YORK, NY | $25,000 | 2024 | General & Unrestricted |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | FAIRFAX, VA | $20,000 | 2024 | In support of the Raphael Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program Fund |
| AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE | NEW YORK, NY | $18,000 | 2024 | The Allyne Schwartz Raphael Lemkin Seminar Fund |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC | MONTGOMERY, AL | $18,000 | 2024 | the Immigrant Justice Project and the Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative |
| STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | GALLOWAY, NJ | $15,680 | 2024 | Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Fellowship Fund |
| STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | GALLOWAY, NJ | $12,500 | 2024 | MAHG Study Tour Fund |
| GLOBAL CHILDRENS ART PROGRAMME | NEW YORK, NY | $10,000 | 2024 | implement asustainable technologies for small school in kindiri |
| AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE | NEW YORK, NY | $402,300 | 2023 | AIPG Refugee Protection Program in El Salvador, Bosnia, and Thailand |
| FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT | BINGHAMTON, NY | $325,000 | 2023 | Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention |
| LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC | NEW YORK, NY | $200,000 | 2023 | Public History efforts and to Director of Collections |
FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT
$762,860Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
AIPG Refugee Protection Program
AIPG Refugee Protection Program in El Salvador, Bosnia, and Thailand
Public History efforts and to Director of Collections
Support to hire litigators in the EU to help bring down systemic barriers to refugee family reunification and resettlement
USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Renewal of support for the Prevention Project hosted by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School
Scheidt Family Seminar on Genocide Studies and Prevention
Tenement Museum Virtual Field Trip Capacity Building project
YALE UNIVERSITY
$36,000Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism
OLGA LENGYEL INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES AND H
$36,000General & Unrestricted
Graduate Scholarship Fund for the Study of Refugees and Displacement
EDUCATORS INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
$25,000General & Unrestricted
STO TE NEMA INC
$25,000General & Unrestricted
ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILI
$25,000West Point Resnick Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Fund for New Initiatives
for the building of the school and toilets in Kindiri, Chad
VERMONT PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES LEITENBERG CENTER F
$10,000NESTT and Connecting Cultures
Refugee Studies Initiative to support a collaboration on a workshop at the Kreisky Forum in Vienna
Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocities Prevention
AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE
$402,300AIPG Refugee Protection Program in El Salvador, Bosnia, and Thailand
to support the Public History efforts and to Director of Collections
AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE
$80,000Support initial year of US Lemkin Seminars
to support the Simon-Skjodt Center and the Museum
Exodus Reverse, a sponsored project under the oversight of Fractured Atlas
STO TE NEMA INC
$25,000Website creation and annual stipend for artist
OLGA LENGYEL INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES AND H
$25,000General & Unrestricted
In support of the Raphael Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program Fund
AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE
$18,000The Allyne Schwartz Raphael Lemkin Seminar Fund
the Immigrant Justice Project and the Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative
Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Fellowship Fund
GLOBAL CHILDRENS ART PROGRAMME
$10,000implement asustainable technologies for small school in kindiri
AIPG Refugee Protection Program in El Salvador, Bosnia, and Thailand
Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Public History efforts and to Director of Collections