New Hampshire · Private foundation
Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $135k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2025
- 74
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 86
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 63 | $135k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 74 | $158k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $87k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 81 | $128k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 86 | $162k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Place to Be | $31,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maryland Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gathering Waters Inc | $23,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $14,000 | 5 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Loudoun Empty Bowls | $12,900 | 5 | 7% |
| The Arc of Loudoun | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hope Works Inc | $11,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Kinship Mke Inc | $11,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Lucy Mackenzie Humane Society Inc | $11,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 95 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($251k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · The Sam Mazza Foundation · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · Atkinson Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The San Diego Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Ec Styberg Foundation Inc · Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · The Brookby Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation with peer funders
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About Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation
- How much does Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation give?
- Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $135,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 86 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Food & Nutrition (11%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: A Place to Be ($31k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maryland Inc ($30k), Gathering Waters Inc ($24k).
- Does Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation 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 Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, The Sam Mazza Foundation.
- Where is Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation based?
- Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation is based in NH.
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