· Private foundation
Charles and Elizabeth Schellhorn Private Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $5,096 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| VILLAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE FUND | $5,000 |
| THE GRAND COUNTY FOUNDATION (THE WILDFIRE EMERGENCY FUND) | $5,000 |
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ST ANN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $3,000 |
| NO KID HUNGRY | $2,000 |
| INFINITE STRENGTH | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHARVARD COLLEGE FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $250k
- UWUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +1%
- HBHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $25k
Funded once
- UNUS NAVAL ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $3k
- HHHEAD HEARTS & HANDS GUIDANCE AT THE CROSSROADS DECISIONSone grant, 2023 · $1k
- HMHARVARD MAGAZINE INCone grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue +2%
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.
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.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds INFINITE STRENGTH INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds HARVARD MAGAZINE INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles and Elizabeth Schellhorn Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles and Elizabeth Schellhorn Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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