· Private foundation
James M Schoonmaker II 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 $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+8 grants · $7.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAILING FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK | $1,840,000 |
| NATIONAL SAILING HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM | $1,010,000 |
| NCH HEALTHCARE FDN | $1,005,000 |
| SAN FRANCISO CHALLENGE DBA AMERICAONE | $1,000,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC | $1,000,000 |
| GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $750,000 |
| US SAILING CENTER INC | $490,000 |
| NAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $250,000 |
| YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER | $200,000 |
| ORANGE BOWL COMMITTEE | $180,000 |
| OAKLIFF SAILING CENTER | $168,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL STAR CLASS YACHT RACING | $100,000 |
| SNIP COLLIER | $100,000 |
| COCUNUT GROVE SAILING CLUB INSTRUCTIONAL | $75,000 |
| SAIL TO PREVAIL | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +54% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 9 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $588k 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
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +86%
- TGTHE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +167%
- NHNAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $610k · revenue +363%
Funded once
NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INCone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0% · 45% of their budget- YSYOUTH SAILING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $150k
- TGTHE GREAT LAKES HISTORICALone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
To attract and bring together a dedicated group in yachting and naval members to share and foster their interest in yachting and yacht racing;(continue on schedule o)
The organization is an exempt social club under irc section 501(c)(7), whose program service activities are organized and operated substantially for the pleasure & recreation of its members. all programs of the club are related to the…
The organizations mission is to increase sailing participation and excellence through education, competition, and equal opportunity while upholding the principles of fair play, sportsmanship, and safety.
The naples yacht club is a private yacht and social club with a "by invitation only" membership policy. the club shall encourage the sport of yachting and provide excellent boating facilities and activities for its members. further, the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The purpose of the northeast harbor fleet is to provide racing & cruising activities serving 427 members in northeast harbor, maine
The norwalk seaport association, inc. offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to the norwalk islands. the sheffield island lighthouse and the light keeper's cottage provide a unique historical and educational venue which…
Promotion of amateur sailing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne. 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 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 36% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 48 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 Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SAILING HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAILING FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds Orange Bowl Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER ↗
- Who funds SNIP Collier Inc ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds SAIL TO PREVAIL ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROYAL PALM SAILING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds COCONUT GROVE SAILING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Team Paradise Sailing Inc ↗
- Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
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: Richard and Ann Du Moulin Foundation · Kane Wallace Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Lotz Family Foundation · Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation · Brooks-Mathews Foundation · Gubelmann Family Foundation Inc · The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Carlson Family Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation
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 M Schoonmaker II 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Orange Bowl Committee Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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.