· Private foundation
Daniel G & Jean K Schuster Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of DANIEL G & JEAN K SCHUSTER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $262,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $370,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $107,800 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lifetime Wells Vision Inc | $100,000 |
| Cavanagh House, Inc | $50,000 |
| Upperco Volunteer Fire Company, Inc | $40,000 |
| Sisters Academy Of Baltimore | $25,000 |
| Girls Expecting More Sucess | $17,500 |
| Catholic Charities of Baltimore | $12,000 |
| O'Dwyer Retreat House | $10,000 |
| Maryland District Amateur Athletic Union | $2,500 |
| Metro Maryland Youth For Christ | $2,000 |
| Robert Coleman Elementary School | $1,500 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | $1,000 |
| Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital | $1,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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
- PYPOSITIVE YOUTH EXPRESSIONS INC3× · 2018–2022 · $182k · revenue +63%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC2× · 2019–2022 · $75k · revenue +32%
- ACASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC3× · 2018–2023 · $32k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CUCHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH INCone grant, 2018 · $138k
- HFHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +178%
- PPPhiladelphia Polo Classic, Work To Ride Incone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
24 hour pray service
Good Shepherd Services closed its residential treatment facility in March 2017. No new mission has been established at this time.
Mentoring and educational programs for female youth
Boys Hope Girls Hope nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…
Provide mental services to residents of baltimore city and surrounding counties
Promote youth-led grant-making, leadership development and community organizing to effect change in Baltimore City.
To improve student achievement while promoting health. students at afya will be engaged in physical activity while focusing on the development of their reading, writing, math, science, and social studies skills. afya provides an effective…
Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.
Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.
To improve the effectiveness of support services provied by public, non-profit and private agencies to residents of caroline county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lifetime Wells Vision Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 of the 53 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 POSITIVE YOUTH EXPRESSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFETIME WELLS VISION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAVANAGH HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UPPERCO VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALPHA PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS EXPECTING MORE SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS CHANCE OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds METRO-MARYLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds Shoresh Inc ↗
- Who funds UMAR BOXING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GLYNDON VOLUNTTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc ↗
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: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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.
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