· Private foundation
Howard and Debbie Schiller 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Readworks Inc | $400,000 |
| Telluride Foundation | $30,000 |
| Judith Creed Horizons for Achieving Independence | $20,000 |
| American Friends of Rabin Medical Center Inc | $10,000 |
| Project Exploration | $10,000 |
| Mountainfilm | $5,000 |
| Parkinsons Wellness Initiative Foundation | $5,000 |
| Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence | $5,000 |
| Brooklyn Museum | $5,000 |
| San Miguel Educational Fund | $2,500 |
| Telluride Nordic Association Inc | $1,000 |
| Telluride Volunteer Fire Department Company | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- RREADWORKSINC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +4%
- TVTHE VALERIE FUND4× · 2020–2024 · $409k · revenue +108%
- JCJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- WFWest Fork Volunteer Fire Departmentone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -15% · 93% of their budget
- TSTemple Sharey Tefilo-Israelone grant, 2022 · $100k
- SFSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +79%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc and the most unlike its peers is West Fork Volunteer Fire Department. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 39 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 READWORKSINC ↗
- Who funds THE VALERIE FUND ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds West Fork Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT EXPLORATION ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Telluride Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND ↗
- Who funds CIVIC BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Parkinsons Wellness Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds Road Recovery Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds THE DEBORAH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Telluride Nordic AssociationInc ↗
- Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
- Who funds MRCC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sammy Gelband Foundation ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Dalton Family Foundation · Telluride Foundation · The Peter a and Deborah L Weinberg Family Foundation · The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · National Philanthropic Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Howard and Debbie Schiller 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.
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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