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Neil Schlussel Family Foundation at a glance

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Neil Schlussel 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Crime & Legal$80kHuman Services$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kEducation$9kHousing & Shelter$9kHealth$6kScience & Tech$4kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,250
Median grant
4
States reached
$379k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA$5,000
AIR FORCE SECURITY ASSOC$5,000
AIR UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$4,200
SAFESPOT$2,250
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$1,750
ALIVE$750
CARPENTERS SHELTER$750
OPERATION BENJAMIN$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Kesem: $2k → 14%Second Story: $1k → 6%Second Story: $914 → 6%Aspire Afterschool Learning: $500 → 7%Second Story: $750 → 7%Alive: $1k → 9%Alive: $1k → 9%Alive: $1k → 9%ALIVE: $750 → 9%Alive: $750 → 9%Alive: $500 → 9%Alive: $500 → 9%Main Street Development Ctr: $500 → 6%Capital Caring: $1k → 6%Capital Caring: $1k → 6%Capital Caring: $1k → 6%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$110k · 10 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$110k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+24%

Still filing today

90%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPublic BenefitEducationCivil RightsHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • FC
    FAIRFAX COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $39k · revenue +33%
  • TS
    THE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +163%
  • CS
    CARPENTER'S SHELTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • CA
    Court Appointed Secial Advocates
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • CK
    Camp Kesem Nationalgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +37%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Home Society of Virginia

The mission of CHSVA is to build strong permanent families and lifelong relationships for Virginia's at risk children and youth.

Human Services
2
ChildSafe Center - Cac

Provide Forensic Interviews and Therapy Services

Human Services
3
Community Systems Support and Management Services Inc

Helping persons with disabilities to find happiness in their own homes, in their personal relationships, and as contributing members of their community.

Health
4
Center City Public Charter Schools

Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.

Education
5
Casa of Central Virginia Inc

Casa of central va, inc. recruits, trains and supports volunteer advocates for abused and neglected children involved in juvenile court proceedings in the 24th judicial district and educates the community about the needs of these children.

Civil Rights
6
Center for a New American Security Inc

The mission of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is to develop strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies building on the the expertise and experience of its staff and advisors. CNAS engages policy…

International
7
For Children's Sake of Virginia Inc

For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.

Human Services
8
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
9
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
10
Community Health Accreditation Program Inc

Advance the highest quality of home and community-based care.

Health
11
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
12
Chip of Virginia

Chip of virginia administers and monitors a network of 7 agencies in 27 virginia localities who work with low-income families to assure that children from birth to age 6 receive the health care necessary for them to lead healthy lives,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic; the most unlike its peers is Air Force Security Forces Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 31 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AIR FORCE SECURITY FORCES ASSOCIATION: $11,000 · OtherAIR FORCE SECURITY FORCES ASSOCIAT…CASA: $10,000 · OtherCASACourt Appointed Secial Advocates: $5,000 · OtherCourt Appointed Secial AdvocatesAIR FORCE SECURITY ASSOC: $5,000 · OtherAIR FORCE SECURITY ASSOCIndividual grant recipient: $1,996 · Other+12 more: $9,555 · Other+12 moreFAIRFAX COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $39,190 · Civil RightsFAIRFAX COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL …THE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $23,082 · Human ServicesTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATIONALIVE Inc: $5,500 · Human ServicesALIVE IncCapital Hospice: $3,000 · Human ServicesCapital HospiceABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC: $2,664 · Human ServicesABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S…Camp Kesem National: $1,800 · Human Services+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesCARPENTER'S SHELTER INC: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $4,940 · EducationCOMPUTER CORE INC: $357 · EducationAIR UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,200 · InternationalOperation Second Chance Inc: $750 · Public BenefitOPERATION BENJAMIN INC: $500 · Public Benefit
Other$42,551Civil Rights$39,190Human Services$37,046Housing & Shelter$9,000Education$5,297International$4,200Public Benefit$1,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAIRFAX COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $39,190 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $23,082 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetAIR FORCE SECURITY FORCES ASSOCIATION: $11,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCARPENTER'S SHELTER INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetALIVE Inc: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $4,940 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Hospice: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC: $2,664 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Council of Northern Virginia Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX BIKES: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE READING CONNECTION INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BENJAMIN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAIN STREET CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTER CORE INC: $357 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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…United Way of the Nat…Dominion Energy Chari…Greater Washington Co…Randolph D Rouse Foun…Act for AlexandriaPhilip L Graham Fund …The Morris and Gwendo…Ivakota Assoc IncAlloy Family Foundati…The Maple Tree FundCalvert and Sally Sim…
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Randolph D Rouse Foundation Inc · Act for Alexandria · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Ivakota Assoc Inc · Alloy Family Foundation Inc · The Maple Tree Fund · Calvert and Sally Simmons 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 Neil Schlussel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Neil Schlussel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Capital Hospice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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