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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k61 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your 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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- APA PLACE TO BE4× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +7%
- GWGATHERING WATERS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +67%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
- SDSan Diego Zoo Global-Elephant Valley Fundone grant, 2021 · $5k
- WSWILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +37%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary 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)
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
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…
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
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,…
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…
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- 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 MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN 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 WILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND REENTRY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PACIFICA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
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 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
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 organization Helmut Wolfgang Schumann Foundation 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.
- 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
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 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.
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