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Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$128kFood & Nutrition$73kHuman Services$72kHealth$71kInternational$67kEducation$60kEnvironment$47kAnimals$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k61 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ronald McDonald House$30,000
Gathering Waters$10,500
NPR$9,000
A Place to Be$8,000
Lovettsville Elementary School$5,000
Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Doctors Without Borders$4,000
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees$4,000
Scripps Ranch High School Foundation$3,000
KPBS$2,500
Loudoun Empty Bowls$2,000
International Rescue Committee$2,000
Covenant House$2,000
Grassroots Crisis Center Inc$2,000
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 (FY21–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Art of Yoga Project: $1k → 7%YMCA of San Diego County: $2k → 11%Union Rescue Mission: $1k → 14%Charity Navigator: $100 → 7%Art of Yoga Project: $1k → 7%Union Rescue Mission: $500 → 14%Charity Navigator: $100 → 7%Camp Inclusion: $2k → 6%The Art of Yoga Project: $1k → 7%Union Rescue Mission: $500 → 14%The Art of Yoga Project: $500 → 7%Little Sisters of the Poor: $3k → 14%ARC of Loudoun: $7k → 4%The Art of Yoga Project: $500 → 7%Union Rescue Mission: $500 → 14%ARC of Loudoun: $5k → 4%Ronald McDonald House: $30k → 19%Building Families for Children: $3k → 6%Building Families for Children: $2k → 6%Building Families for Children: $2k → 6%Building Families for Children: $2k → 6%Pacifica Resource Center: $1k → 7%Pacifica Resource Center: $1k → 7%Covenant House: $2k → 17%Covenant House: $1k → 17%Pacifica Resource Center: $500 → 7%A Farm Less Ordinary: $5k → 4%Pacifica Resource Center: $500 → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$530k · 89 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

89 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
51

Total granted

$530k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+13%

Still filing today

63%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • AP
    A PLACE TO BE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +7%
  • GW
    GATHERING WATERS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +67%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SD
    San Diego Zoo Global-Elephant Valley Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • AF
    A FARM LESS ORDINARY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • WS
    WILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +37%
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
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
3
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
4
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
5
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
6
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
7
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
8
San Francisco Zoological Society

To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.

Animals
9
California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…

Arts & Culture
10
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
11
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
12
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is Loudoun Empty Bowls. 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

92 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. 92 of the 146 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/92
Grantees still filing
62/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A PLACE TO BE: $31,000 · OtherA PLACE TO BENPR: $29,000 · OtherNPRIndividual grant recipient: $24,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKinship Community Food Center: $16,500 · OtherBethany Mennonite Church: $16,500 · OtherUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: $14,500 · Other+72 more: $259,350 · Other+72 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDON…THE ARC OF LOUDOUN: $12,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF L…BUILDING FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesBUILDING FAM…A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $5,000 · Human ServicesA FARM LESS …THE ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $4,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $3,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesPacifica Resource Center: $3,000 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSION: $2,500 · Human Services+3 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $4,000 · Arts & CulturePacifica Performances Inc: $3,000 · Arts & CultureYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureANTIQUE GAS & STEAM ENGINE MUSEUM: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2,500 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSS United States Conservancy: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCEDARBURG ART MUSEUM & SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMANNAKIN THEATER AND DANCE: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1,700 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $6,500 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $13,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,700 · InternationalORPHANS AFRICA: $4,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $4,000 · InternationalMercy Corps: $3,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 · InternationalGATHERING WATERS INC: $23,500 · EnvironmentROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentRIVER REVITALIZATION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentRESTORING LANDS INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,500 · Environment+3 more: $2,600 · EnvironmentLOVETTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $9,000 · EducationScripps Ranch High School Foundation Inc: $7,500 · EducationPACIFICA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationMARSHALL MIDDLE SCHOOL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS: $5,000 · EducationHillsboro Charter Academy: $2,500 · EducationWOODGROVE MUSIC & ARTS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · EducationRACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC: $2,000 · EducationSCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC: $1,500 · Education+3 more: $2,050 · EducationLUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $11,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $7,150 · AnimalsTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC: $4,770 · AnimalsBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS: $4,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 · AnimalsLucky Mutts Rescue Inc: $1,500 · Animals+3 more: $2,500 · Animals
Other$390,850Human Services$75,000Arts & Culture$50,200International$45,700Environment$38,600Education$36,550Animals$32,920

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA PLACE TO BE: $31,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGATHERING WATERS INC: $23,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN EMPTY BOWLS: $12,900 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetTHE ARC OF LOUDOUN: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE WORKS INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKINSHIP MKE INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetArtSpan: $9,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVETTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $9,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetBUILDING FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetScripps Ranch High School Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $7,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND REENTRY RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPACIFICA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA FARM LESS ORDINARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC: $4,770 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORPHANS AFRICA: $4,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetRIVER REVITALIZATION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER HOWARD COUNTY INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacifica Performances Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPacifica Resource Center: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANZA-BORREGO FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANTIQUE GAS & STEAM ENGINE MUSEUM: $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% 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 A PLACE TO BE ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds GATHERING WATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUDOUN EMPTY BOWLS ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF LOUDOUN ↗
  • Who funds HOPE WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds KINSHIP MKE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ArtSpan ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds LOVETTSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds Scripps Ranch High School Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND REENTRY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PACIFICA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds A FARM LESS ORDINARY ↗
  • Who funds ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC ↗

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.

Herbert H Kohl Charit…Greater Milwaukee Fou…The Sam Mazza Foundat…Community Foundation …Atkinson FoundationThe Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncThe San Diego Foundat…The San Francisco Fou…Ec Styberg Foundation…Van Metre Companies F…The Brookby Foundation
Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI20× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Maryland Reentry Resource Center: 77% of income from government
  • Hope Works Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation 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 146 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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