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F A Schluter 1818 - 1882

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$187k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$573kEducation$223kCommunity Improvement$98kFood & Nutrition$55kHuman Services$36kYouth Development$33kRecreation & Sports$20kAnimals$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $104k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Excelsior Foundation$68,500
Jefferson Carnegie Library$35,000
Jefferson Museum$19,000
Friends of the Arts$15,000
Historic Jefferson Foundation$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Marion County Chamber of Commerce$10,000
Blessings of Grace-Marion Co Food P$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Marion County Toys for Tots$2,000
Corvette Club$2,000
Friends of Jefferson Library$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%Community Services of Northeast Tex: $1k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$970k · 18 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
16

Total granted

$970k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+86%

Still filing today

28%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • TE
    The Excelsior Foundation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $199k · revenue +33%
  • TJ
    THE JEFFERSONIAN INSTITUTE INC DBA CYPRESS VALLEY ALLIANCE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $63k · revenue +620% · 39% of their budget
  • HJ
    Historic Jefferson Foundation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $28k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • JA
    Jessie Allen Wise Garden Club
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • JD
    Jefferson Diamond Youth BSA
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • CO
    City of Jefferson Tourism Dept
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Jefferson Historical Society & Museum

Preserve history and heritage of jefferson texas and the operation of the jefferson museum

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2
Jefferson Fire & Rescue Department

Fight fires and save lives

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Historic City of Jefferson Inc

Promote awareness of preservation and renovation of historic buildings.

Arts & Culture
4
Jefferson County Historical Society

Saving the heritage of jefferson county,

Arts & Culture
5
Jefferson County Historical Society

Education and preservation of history.

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6
Jefferson County Historical Society

To preserve, maintain and restore historical artifacts and information for future generations.

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7
Heritage Society of Washington County

Preservation of histrical buildings

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8
Madras-Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce

We provide assistance with economic development and tourism to jefferson county.

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9
Marion County Historical Society

To preserve the history of marion county alabama

Arts & Culture
10
St Charles Historical Society

Collection and preservation of historical documents pertaining to saint charles county, missouri and making them available to the general public

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11
Jefferson Volunteer Fire Company

Community and area fire protection. Render assistance at accident sites. Provide area ambulance service.

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12
Marion Economic Development Company

To strengthen and enhance economic development in marion

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marion County Chamber of Commerce; the most unlike its peers is Mims Volunteer Fire Department & Ambulance Service. 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

9 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. 9 of the 36 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jefferson Museum: $217,500 · OtherJefferson MuseumJefferson Carnegie Library: $195,000 · OtherJefferson Carnegie LibraryFriends of the Arts: $35,500 · OtherMarion County Chamber of Commerce: $35,000 · OtherMARION COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER: $33,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $31,000 · OtherJefferson Opera House Theatre Playe: $30,000 · OtherJessie Allen Wise Garden Club: $30,000 · OtherHistoric Jefferson Foundation: $27,500 · Other+23 more: $174,700 · Other+23 moreThe Excelsior Foundation: $198,500 · Arts & CultureThe Excelsior Founda…THE JEFFERSONIAN INSTITUTE INC DBA CYPRESS VALLEY ALLIANCE: $62,500 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $1,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF JEFFERSON ANIMALS: $100 · Animals
Other$809,200Arts & Culture$198,500Housing & Shelter$62,500Human Services$1,000Animals$100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Excelsior Foundation: $198,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE JEFFERSONIAN INSTITUTE INC DBA CYPRESS VALLEY ALLIANCE: $62,500 over 3y, 39% of budgetMarion County Chamber of Commerce: $35,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetHistoric Jefferson Foundation: $27,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetKrewe of Hebe Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetMIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT & AMBULANCE SERVICE: $5,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds The Excelsior Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE JEFFERSONIAN INSTITUTE INC DBA CYPRESS VALLEY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Marion County Chamber of Commerce ↗
  • Who funds Historic Jefferson Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Krewe of Hebe Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT & AMBULANCE SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON ANIMALS ↗

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.

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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 F A Schluter 1818 - 1882 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from F A Schluter 1818 - 1882. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to F A Schluter 1818 - 1882 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 36 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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