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Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$42k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 9
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$213k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$42k14%
FY20246$39k50%
FY20237$24k43%
FY20227$33k29%
FY20219$36k67%
FY20208$30kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$48kYouth Development$42kFood & Nutrition$23kHousing & Shelter$20kArts & Culture$18kHuman Services$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kMembership Benefit$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for Community Solutions$47,50050%
Just in Time for Foster Youth$41,50040%
Wesley House Student Residence Inc$20,00022%
Barnes Cemetery Association$12,0006n/a
Warren County Historical Society$8,00041%
North Star Family Center$5,00010%
Sheffield Depot Preservation Society$5,0004n/a
Lj Steam Foundation$5,0001n/a
San Diego Lifesaving Association$5,0002n/a
Sheffield Township Volunteer Fire Department$4,00021%
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All grantees of Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for Community Solutions$47,50050%
Just in Time for Foster Youth$41,50040%
Wesley House Student Residence Inc$20,00022%
Barnes Cemetery Association$12,0006n/a
Warren County Historical Society$8,00041%
North Star Family Center$5,00010%
Sheffield Depot Preservation Society$5,0004n/a
Lj Steam Foundation$5,0001n/a
San Diego Lifesaving Association$5,0002n/a
Sheffield Township Volunteer Fire Department$4,00021%
Carlsbad Softball Association$2,00011%
Borrego Springs Youth and Senior Center$2,00011%
Christmas Circle Community Park$1,00011%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for Community Solutions: $47,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJust in Time for Foster Youth: $41,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWesley House Student Residence Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWarren County Historical Society: $8,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNorth Star Family Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSheffield Township Volunteer Fire Department: $4,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCarlsbad Softball Association: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBorrego Springs Youth and Senior Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChristmas Circle Community Park: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Diego FoundationCA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation

How much does Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation give?
Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $42,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Youth Development (20%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
Who are Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Center for Community Solutions ($48k), Just in Time for Foster Youth ($42k), Wesley House Student Residence Inc ($20k).
Does Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation based?
Alan and Donna Schuler Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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