· Private foundation
Ralph Schultz Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| IOWA CITY COMM SCH DISTRICT FDN | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES | $1,500 |
| IOWA PUBLIC RADIO | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON CO | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WATERLOO | $750 |
| FRED LEWIS FOUNDATION | $750 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORRIDOR | $650 |
| OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $500 |
| BLACK HAWK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION | $500 |
| IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $500 |
| IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| BLACK HAWK COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $350 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +27%
- IPIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +32%
- OPOLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY CSDone grant, 2023 · $2k
- DGDAN GABLE WRESTLING MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $1k
- VMVAN METER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $750
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.
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.
The mission of the iowa city public library friends foundation is to strengthen the iowa city public library through fundraising, advocacy, and promotion of its valuable resources.
The iowa 4-h foundation provides financial resources for youth development through 4-h.
Iowa first fund was organized for the purpose of educating and informing iowa voters about limited government and expanding economic opportunity.
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.
The iowa corn promotion board (icpb) works to develop and defend markets, fund research, and provide education about corn and corn products. icpb's mission is to create opportunities for long term iowa corn grower profitability.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
The mission of the iowa center loan fund cdfi is to reduce proverty and inequality and further community development by providing access to capital to iowans starting or expanding a business who do not have access to traditional forms of…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds FRED LEWIS FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH HANDBALL ↗
- Who funds OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds VAN METER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Johnson County · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ralph Schultz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph Schultz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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