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George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$497k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
10
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$49,706
Largest grant, FY2023
$49,706
Organizations funded a year
10 to 10
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202310$497k20%
FY202210$64k0%
FY202110$6k0%
FY202010$9k0%
FY201910$12kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Health$352kYouth Development$68kEducation$59kFood & Nutrition$59kAnimals$50k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lifescape Community Services Inc$58,80451%
American Diabetes Association$58,80450%
Barbara Olson Center of Hope$58,80452%
Rosecrance Foundation Inc$58,80453%
Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois$58,80451%
Rock Valley College Foundation$58,80452%
Northern Illinois Hospice Association$58,80451%
Center for Sight & Hearing$58,19753%
American Cancer Society Inc$49,70610%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLifescape Community Services Inc: $58,804 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $58,804 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBarbara Olson Center of Hope: $58,804 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetRosecrance Foundation Inc: $58,804 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetGirl Scouts of Northern Illinois: $58,804 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRock Valley College Foundation: $58,804 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetNorthern Illinois Hospice Association: $58,804 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCenter for Sight & Hearing: $58,197 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $49,706 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Bergstrom Inc Charita…Community Foundation …American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008IL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Community Foundation of Northern IL · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr

How much does George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr give?
George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr reported 10 grants totaling $496,807 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (60%), Youth Development (12%), Education (10%).
Who are George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Lifescape Community Services Inc ($59k), American Diabetes Association ($59k), Barbara Olson Center of Hope ($59k).
Does George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008, Community Foundation of Northern IL, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr based?
George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr is based in IL.

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 12 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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