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Lewis G Schaeneman Jr Foundation Inc
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 $10k20 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEAP | $29,500 |
| NEW REACH | $19,500 |
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY | $17,500 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES - ITHACA | $15,000 |
| SOLAR YOUTH | $15,000 |
| YOUTH CONTINUUM INC | $15,000 |
| NEW HAVEN READS | $15,000 |
| HORIZONS AT THE FOOTE SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER | $12,500 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES - CHARLOTTESVILLE | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK NETWORK | $10,000 |
| EMERGE CONNECTICUT | $10,000 |
| NELSON COUNTY PANTRY | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - CHARLOTTESVILLE | $9,205 |
| UVA WOMEN'S CENTER | $8,000 |
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, $266k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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 +28% since the first grant, against -39% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SMST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $133k · revenue +153%
- NHNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +66%
- NCNelson County Pantry Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $83k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- JFJUNTA FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION INCone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -39%
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 ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
The haven provides a safe and welcoming space for the homeless and very poor in charlottesville, virginia area by supprting individuals and families as they pursue stability through connections to resources and creative housing…
Loaves & fishes provides nourishing food with respect and dignity to all who seek assistance, while offering robust opportunities for community engagement through volunteerism, partnerships, and nutrition education.
Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Nrca's mission is to promote and support the well-being and self-reliance of individuals, families, and communities. established in 1965, the agency works in the new river valley of virginia to empower local communities to recognize and…
Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.
Feedmore's mission is to fight hunger in central virginia. we are the core hunger relief organization serving children, families, and seniors within our 34 city and county service area.
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Haven Inc. 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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 43 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 ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CONTINUUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Nelson County Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds SOLAR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW REACH INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY READING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ROCKFISH VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFISH VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Madison House ↗
- Who funds THE FREE BOOK BUS ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT CASA INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Soup Kitchen Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WHEAT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS CENTER OF TC INC ↗
- Who funds JUNTA FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY-SPCA OF NELSON COUNTY ↗
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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · Yale University · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · City Missionary Association of New Haven · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation · Eder Family Foundation Inc · The Charles Fund 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 Lewis G Schaeneman Jr Foundation Inc 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.
- Youth Continuum Inc — 76% of income from government
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
- Emerge Connecticut Inc — 47% of income from government
- Junta for Progressive Action Inc — 35% of income from government
- Solar Youth Inc — 19% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wheat Inc — 3% 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.
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