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James and Mary Schurz Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

James and Mary Schurz Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$64k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$323kPublic Benefit$20k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY THEATRE INC$22,000
WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE$10,000
BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$10,000
WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL$10,000
THE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION$5,000
WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL$5,000
FRESH ACADEMICZ 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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $22k → 12%AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $15k → 12%AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $15k → 12%AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $10k → 12%AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $5k → 12%HAGERSTOWN WASHINGTON COUNTY: $20k → 12%WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL: $15k → 12%WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL: $10k → 12%WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL: $10k → 12%WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL: $10k → 12%BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 12%WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL: $10k → 12%MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10k → 12%MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10k → 12%BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 12%BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 12%MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10k → 12%BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 12%MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10k → 12%THE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%THE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $7k → 12%BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $6k → 12%WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $5k → 12%WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $5k → 12%BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 12%WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $5k → 12%THE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $5k → 12%THE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $5k → 12%WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $5k → 12%DISCOVERY STATION AT HAGERSTOWN INC: $5k → 12%BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $4k → 12%WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET: $4k → 12%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON: $3k → 12%FRESH ACADEMICZ INC: $2k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$314k · 7 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against -41% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$314k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
-41%

Still filing today

86%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • AC
    AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY THEATRE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $67k · revenue +66%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $59k · revenue +14%
  • MS
    MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • DS
    DISCOVERY STATION AT HAGERSTOWN INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -41%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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

7 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. 7 of the 11 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $67,000 · Arts & CultureAUTHENTIC COMMUNITY THEATRE INCWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $59,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCWASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $37,500 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSTHE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $55,311 · OtherBARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSMARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $40,000 · OtherMARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCWASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $30,111 · OtherWASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INCIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+2 more: $4,500 · Other
Arts & Culture$193,500Other$149,922

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAUTHENTIC COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $67,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $59,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetMARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $37,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $30,111 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetTHE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDISCOVERY STATION AT HAGERSTOWN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY STATION AT HAGERSTOWN 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…The Hamilton Family F…Nora Roberts Foundati…Albert E & Naomi B Si…Michael G Callas Char…Alice V & David W Fle…Delaplaine Foundation…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland IncMD20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Albert E & Naomi B Sinnisen Foundation · Michael G Callas Charitable Trust · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 James and Mary Schurz Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James and Mary Schurz Foundation Inc. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Washington County Arts Council Inc: 56% of income from government
  • Maryland Symphony Orchestra Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Washington County Museum of Fine Arts: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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Find your warmest path to James and Mary Schurz Foundation Inc 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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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