How much did EDWARD & HILDEGARDE SCHAEFER grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of EDWARD & HILDEGARDE SCHAEFER’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

—

2021

charitablecharitable

2022

charitablecharitable

2023

nature

2025

animalscience

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k19 grants · $77k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

WELLS COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$10,000
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC$10,000
COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK$8,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FORT WAYNE$6,250
MATTHEW 25 HEALTH CLINIC$5,000
FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S ZOO$5,000
ANIMAL RESCUE FUND$5,000
ACRES LAND TRUST$5,000
YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA$5,000
WELLS COUNTY FOUNDATION$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$5,000
NATIONAL AQUARIUM$4,000
TURNSTONE$4,000
SCIENCE CENTRAL$3,000
SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE$3,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$714k · 27 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -75% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$714k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

-75%

Still filing today

37%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationAnimalsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEnvironmentOther

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

HM
HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES
9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +1029%
A
ACRES
8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +260%
BB
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS
9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +36%

Funded once

LN
LC NATURE PARK
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -75%
Y
YMCA
one grant, 2024 · $2k
BC
BEREA COLLAGE SCHOLARSHIPS
one grant, 2021 · $2k

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

04Your field

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.

University of Indianapolis

The mission of the University of Indianapolis is to prepare its graduates for effective membership in the societies in which they live and serve, and for excellence and leadership in their lives.

Education

Cincinnati Nature Center

Inspiring conservation.

Environment

Trine University

Trine, an internationally recognized private, independent, co-educational institution offers degrees in various programs including engineering, math, science and business.

Education

Franklin College of Indiana

Franklin College empowers students through an experiential education, grounded in the liberal arts and sciences, promoting impactful careers and meaningful lives.

Education

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

North Central College

We are a diverse community of learners dedicated to preparing students to be curious, engaged, ethical, and purposeful citizens and leaders in local, national and global contexts.

Education

Boys & Girls Clubs of Benton and

Empower young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development

Indiana University Research & Technology

The indiana university research and technology corporation (iurtc) serves indiana university, the state of indiana, and the nation through creation and application of the university developed technologies and services, and the expanded…

Education

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Our vision: to explore, engage, and empower for a better tomorrow.

Arts & Culture

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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DePauw University

DePauw is a nationally-recognized, leading liberal arts college committed to creating an atmosphere of intellectual challenge & engagement that prepares students for lifelong success.

Education

Indiana Biosciences Research Institute Inc

The ibri is an independent life sciences research institute focused on addressing major underserved areas of public health including diabetes, pediatric rare diseases, and alzheimer's disease. the ibri facilitates the growth of the…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ind and the most unlike its peers is Berea College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

10/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$530,118Youth Development$49,350Health$42,750Environment$41,500Education$32,250Human Services$23,000Arts & Culture$19,300

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.

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.

Community Foundation of GreaterIN20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater · Nisource Charitable Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · McMillen Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation · Journal Gazette Foundation Inc · Franklin Electric Charitable & · Zollner Foundation · Edward M Wilson Foundation · The James Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc

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 organisation EDWARD & HILDEGARDE SCHAEFER 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 351330448 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Edward & Hildegarde Schaefer?

Find your warmest path to Edward & Hildegarde Schaefer through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EDWARD & HILDEGARDE SCHAEFER

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edward & Hildegarde Schaefer?

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EDWARD & HILDEGARDE SCHAEFER

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edward & Hildegarde Schaefer?

More from the funding graph