· Private foundation
Arvid W & Judy R Schwartz 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL KIDA (OAK) FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER | $2,000 |
| GRACE IN ACTION | $2,000 |
| MN VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| THE LUTHERAN HOME ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| MT OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| WELS KINGDOM WORKERS | $1,000 |
| WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $500 |
| LUTHERAN INSTITUTIONAL MINISTRIES | $500 |
| TIME OF GRACE MINISTRY | $500 |
| BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH | $500 |
| ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% of your 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.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- BLBETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +48%
- LYLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +65%
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +84%
- BLBETHLEHEM LUTHERAN COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $500
- WWWELS WORLD MISSIONSone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Grounded in lutheran theology, we strengthen lutheran leadership and ministries for the proclamation of the gospel.
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
St. luke's lutheran care center provides elderly and handicapped people with housing facilities and services and is specially designed to meet the physical, social, and psychological needs of the residents and to contribute to their…
To provide physical, emotional, social and christian care for all people, with dignity and respect, in an environment of god's grace.
Our mission is to advance the gospel of jesus christ through the next generation by engaging the lost and discipling believers on college campuses.
Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Lutheran indian ministries shares the gospel of jesus christ with native american people, encouraging them to proclaim christ's kingdom to their own and to others.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Seminary for students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lutheran Home Association and the most unlike its peers is Christian Life Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 37 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.
- Who funds BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LUTHERAN HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Grace in Action ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIME OF GRACE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds Branch Lutheran Schools of Haiti Inc ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Life Ministries ↗
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: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Antioch Foundation 1015002041 · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Holzhueter Foundation · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · Neumann Family Foundation Inc · Stimac Family Foundation · Robert a and Lynn I Doneff Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · The Marvin M Schwan Charitable Foundation · John and Peggy Zimdars Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Arvid W & Judy R Schwartz Family 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.