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James D Scheinfeld 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN AI FORUM | $20,000 |
| NORTHWEST FILM FORUM | $15,000 |
| ONE CALL FOR ALL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN JESUITS INTERNATIONAL INC | $10,000 |
| SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST FILM FORUM | $10,000 |
| MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND | $9,000 |
| NORTHWEST FILM FORUM | $6,000 |
| JEFFERSON LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| LAKE MERRITT INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| ST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC | $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 (FY17–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of James D Scheinfeld Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- JLJEFFERSON LAND TRUST8× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +186%
- LSLimbitless Solutions Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $96k · revenue +180%
- NFNORTHWEST FILM FORUM3× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- BIBainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Councilone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue -9%
- VNVISITING NURSE AND HOSPICEone grant, 2017 · $15k
- TWTEWA WOMEN UNITEDone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -63%
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 Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.
The Berkeley Public Library Foundation (BPLF) amplifies the public investment to make a great public library extraordinary. To that end, we provide vital funds and ongoing advocacy to advance the Library's mission, vision, and strategic…
APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jefferson Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council. 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 31 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 35 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 JEFFERSON LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Limbitless Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FILM FORUM ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
- Who funds ONE CALL FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds American Jesuits International Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SANSUM CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN AI FORUM ↗
- Who funds RYSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TEWA WOMEN UNITED ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds INCLUSION NEXTWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds Island Cat Resources and Adoption ↗
- Who funds INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds KITSAP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL EAST ↗
- Who funds Lake Merritt Institute ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · California Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 James D Scheinfeld Family 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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