· Private foundation
A J Schwartze Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $605k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $631k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL (EXPANSION PROJECT) | $355,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $276,000 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL | $175,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL | $105,000 |
| ST MARY SCHOOL (FRANKENSTEIN) | $105,000 |
| ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $105,000 |
| ST GEORGE SCHOOL | $105,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL | $105,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $105,000 |
| VITAE FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| WESTPHALIA LIONS CLUB HOME ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| ST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $65,000 |
| VISITATION INTER-PARISH SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH | $50,000 |
| FARMER TRACTOR PULLER ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
81 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $411k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WLWESTPHALIA LIONS CLUB HOME ASSOC6× · 2020–2025 · $354k · revenue +135% · 51% of their budget
- FCFREEBURG COMMUNITY FIRE ASSOCATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +67%
- WSWESTPHALIA SENIOR CITIZENS COMPLEX INC6× · 2020–2025 · $102k · revenue +37% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $259k
- FKFREEBURG KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 9700one grant, 2020 · $20k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH HELPING HANDS OF ST ELIZABETHone grant, 2020 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Meals on wheels & senior citizens meals.
The carthage crisis center is committed to restoring homeless and needy people to self sufficiency with god's help.
Emergency Response
To provide ambulance service to a rural community
Providing care and services for senior citizens.
Provide fire/emergency services and education - Governmental
Counseling services regarding life choic
Provide services to local seniors to improve their quality of life and assist them in remaining in their homes
Fire protection
Overseen and supported by about nine churches in the St. Charles County Mo area. HOPE Food Pantry provides for the needy in and around our community. We distribute groceries weekly to anyone in need. We also help provide items such as baby…
to support WI Pregnancy Resource Centers
Provide Social Services for those 50 up
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital City Area Council for Special Services and the most unlike its peers is Life Runners. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Schell Family Foundation · United Way of Central Missouri Inc · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Veterans United Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization A J Schwartze Community Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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