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Anton E B Schefer Foundation at a glance

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Anton E B Schefer 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.

$238k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$177kScience & Tech$67kHealth$62kPhilanthropy$33kHuman Services$1k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE$128,247
CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC$43,075
BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC$37,600
GREENWICH LIBRARY$12,000
COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$10,000
BREARLEY SCHOOL$2,500
GREENWICH ACADEMY INC$2,500
BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%AMERICAN FUND FOR WESTMINSTER ABBEY: $100k → 17%DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 13%GREENWICH LIBRARY: $12k → 9%RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $10k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE: $220k → 8%AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%AMERICAN FUND FOR WESTMINSTER ABBEY: $67k → 17%DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 13%GREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE: $128k → 8%BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $38k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE: $118k → 8%CHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATION INC: $33k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE: $118k → 8%BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE: $113k → 8%FUNDACION AMISTAD INC: $1k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE: $111k → 8%BREARLEY SCHOOL: $3k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE: $108k → 8%CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $43k → 17%COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $10k → 8%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $33k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE: $97k → 8%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $33k → 17%COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $10k → 8%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $8k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE: $8k → 8%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $8k → 17%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $8k → 17%CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $205k → 17%CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $126k → 17%CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $98k → 17%CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $85k → 17%CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $32k → 17%CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $22k → 17%CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $15k → 17%CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $7k → 17%CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $6k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 6 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +69% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$2.2M
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+69%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FUND FOR WESTMINSTER ABBEY
    2× · 2017–2021 · $167k · revenue +178%
  • DR
    DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $38k · revenue +32%
  • THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM FNDN
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • RS
    RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +69%
  • FA
    FUNDACION AMISTAD INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge

The mission of the university of cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. organizationally, we achieve this through two divisions…

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2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
4
The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States

The churchill foundation provides scholarships for graduate students in the sciences, engineering and mathematics at the university of cambridge, england.

International
5
Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy

Together, we teach and learn skills that foster the courage to discover our voices, develop old and new passions, practice balance in the pursuit of excellence, and collaborate in building vibrant,inclusive, and sustainable communities.

Education
6
Wellesley College

To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.

Education
7
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
8
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
9
Chatham Hall

Chatham hall prepares girls for college and for productive lives. our rigorous educational program encourages intellectual growth, creativity, and personal responsibility. we foster the intellect and character of each student and, through…

Education
10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
11
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

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12
Brown School

Running a private school.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Riverside School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE: $1,020,790 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCETRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $91,665 · OtherTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW+1 more: $1,000 · OtherCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $829,051 · InternationalCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICABRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $37,600 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN FUND FOR WESTMINSTER ABBEY: $166,985 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM FNDN: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $76,192 · PhilanthropyTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $20,000 · PhilanthropyDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · HealthTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $12,000 · EducationRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,500 · EducationTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $2,500 · Education
Other$1,113,455International$866,651Arts & Culture$176,985Philanthropy$96,192Health$37,500Education$29,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $829,051 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FUND FOR WESTMINSTER ABBEY: $166,985 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $76,192 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $37,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Anton E B Schefer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anton E B Schefer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 15 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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