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J Nedra Schilling Foundation Ta

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$53k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Religion$107kPublic Safety & Disaster$76kCivil Rights$63kHousing & Shelter$57kHuman Services$55kHealth$45kFood & Nutrition$25kInternational$15kOther$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$53,414
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA)$53,414
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE YWCA OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $30k → 12%COVENANT HOUSE: $15k → 17%THE YWCA OF GREATER HARRISBURG: $5k → 12%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$905k · 8 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +241% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$905k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+241%
+20%

Still filing today

25%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2017–2020 · $537k
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN CHURCHES UNITED
    4× · 2017–2020 · $76k
  • TL
    THE LGBT COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL PA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $63k

Funded once

  • CP
    CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +20%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • CW
    CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +278%
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $537,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHRISTIAN CHURCHES UNITED: $76,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN CHURCHES UNITEDTHE LGBT COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL PA: $63,000 · OtherTHE LGBT COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL PACHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $54,000 · OtherCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCHPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA: $53,414 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USAIndividual grant recipient: $53,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBETHESDA MISSION: $42,000 · Other+2 more: $20,000 · OtherYWCA GREATER HARRISBURG: $35,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $15,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Check Up Center of S: $45,000 · HealthCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $15,000 · International
Other$898,414Human Services$50,000Health$45,000Food & Nutrition$25,000International$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Check Up Center of S: $45,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetYWCA GREATER HARRISBURG: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 Community Check Up Center of S ↗
  • Who funds YWCA GREATER HARRISBURG ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM HOUSE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization J Nedra Schilling Foundation Ta funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Nedra Schilling Foundation Ta. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 14 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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