From 1901 to 1903, Schuyler led the campaign to have Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus" placed in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

Schuyler was a part of the soldiers' aid societies within Westchester County, New York during the Civil War.

She was also a part of the Hospital Book and Newspaper Society within the United States Sanitary Commission.

[1] Schuyler was also a philanthropist, art patron, and a supporter of the social reform programs that were started by her sister Louisa.

[1] Schuyler, who never married, died at her home, 570 Park Avenue in New York City where she lived with her sister, Louisa, on December 25, 1923.