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Henry O Schaefer Family 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.

$28k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 26
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$835k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2025still arriving18$28k11%
FY202415$28k33%
FY202316$31k38%
FY202214$27k29%
FY20218$32k25%
FY202014$48k50%
FY201926$42k42%
FY201826$49k69%
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$105kHealth$71kReligion$19kArts & Culture$16kFood & Nutrition$12kYouth Development$11kInternational$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vermont Foundation of Recovery Inc$49,50093%
University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc$27,00050%
Community College of Vermont - Montpelier$20,0002n/a
Feeding Southwest Virginia$6,50030%
World Parrot Trust USA Inc$6,50040%
The Toph Foundation Inc$6,00067%
Jefferson Center Foundation Ltd$6,00060%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$5,50030%
Haiti Education Foundation Inc$5,00050%
Grand Isle Rescue Inc$4,50021%
Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($147k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVermont Foundation of Recovery Inc: $49,500 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetUniversity of Oklahoma Foundation Inc: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding Southwest Virginia: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Parrot Trust USA Inc: $6,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Toph Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetJefferson Center Foundation Ltd: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHaiti Education Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGrand Isle Rescue Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDenver Children's Home: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPi Beta Phi Foundation: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Josh Pallotta Fund Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLutheran World Relief Inc: $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Historical Society: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBurlington Bicycle Project Corp: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom 4 24: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMill Mountain Playhouse Co Inc Dba Mill Mountain Theatre: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Hero Library Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Compass: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeton Junior Golf Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetChamplain Islands Food Shel: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGrandin Theatre Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Trail Conservancy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatamount Trail Association: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetColchester Community Food Shelf Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $250 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 29.

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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.

Ben & Jerry's Foundation IncVT17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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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How do I get to Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation

How much does Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation give?
Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $27,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (22%), Religion (6%).
Who are Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vermont Foundation of Recovery Inc ($50k), University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($27k), Community College of Vermont - Montpelier ($20k).
Does Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Henry O Schaefer Family 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 Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc, The Vermont Community Foundation, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation based?
Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation is based in VA.

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 77 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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