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Ray & Charyl Schroeder Grace Foundation

WE EXIST TO SUPPORT ANYTHING OR ANYONE ENRICHING THE QUALITY OF LIFE, PRIMARILY AT THE END OF LIFE.

$173k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of RAY & CHARYL SCHROEDER GRACE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE$40,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$35,000
ALZEIMERS ASSOCIATION$25,000
AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT OF THE U$20,000
RIZE PREVENTION INC$15,000
MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN$10,000
LILY PAD A SOFT PLACE TO LAND INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
THE GREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$5,000
ADAPTIVE PICKELBALL$5,000
FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS$2,500
DSAU$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES: $20k → 15%OPEN DOOR HOME: $7k → 15%LET THERE BE MOM: $10k → 10%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $10k → 10%LET THERE BE MOM: $10k → 10%MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES: $8k → 10%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $3k → 10%LILY PAD A SOFT PLACE TO LAND INC: $10k → 10%ADAPTIVE PICKELBALL: $5k → 10%LILY PAD A SOFT PLACE TO LAND INC: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$487k · 11 repeat orgs$309k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$487k
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+1%

Still filing today

82%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthReligionEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $80k · revenue +10%
  • ES
    Extra Special People Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +110%
  • SF
    ST FRANCES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • BS
    Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundationgraduated
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +51%
  • MF
    MACKEY FUNERALS AND CREMATIONS AT
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • PH
    Prisma Health-Upstategraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital Inc

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
2
Hospital for Special Care

Hospital for Special Care is a 236-Bed Rehabilitation and Chronic Disease hospital, serving patients in these primary areas: Inpatient and Outpatient Rehabilitation.

Health
3
Roper St Francis Healthcare

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
Roper St Francis Physicians Network

Healing all people with compassion, faith and excellence.

Health
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
7
Roper Hospital Inc

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
8
Clinical Biotechnology Research Institute at Rsfh

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
9
St Francis Physician Services Inc

The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.…

Health
10
Roper St Francis Mt Pleasant Hospital

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
11
Bon Secours Medical Group Greenville Specialty Care Llc

The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.…

Health
12
Roper St Francis Foundation

The Roper St. Francis Foundation's mission is to advance the Roper St. Francis Healthcare mission of healing all people with compassion, faith and excellence through philanthropy.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meyer Center for Special Children and the most unlike its peers is Open Door Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%14%<5yr13%5%5–10yr17%24%10–20yr13%14%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr21%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr13%4%5–10yr17%20%10–20yr13%8%20–35yr12%37%35–55yr21%27%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
12%
538/4,497

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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $105,000 · OtherGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INCExtra Special People Inc — $80,000 · OtherExtra Special People IncIndividual grant recipient — $47,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST FRANCES FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherST FRANCES FOUNDATIONAUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT OF THE U — $34,000 · OtherAUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT OF THE UMACKEY FUNERALS AND CREMATIONS AT — $25,480 · OtherMACKEY FUNERALS AND CREMATIONS ATHALCYON HOSPICE — $25,000 · OtherBon Secours - St Francis Health System Foundation Inc — $25,000 · OtherRIZE Prevention Inc — $25,000 · OtherALZEIMERS ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Other+8 more — $50,500 · Other+8 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc — $80,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Associ…Prisma Health-Upstate — $25,000 · HealthPrisma Health-UpstateSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation — $25,000 · HealthSpartanburg Regional …BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $20,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED I…MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC — $28,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE HILL MIN…HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE AND PALL…LILY PAD A SOFT PLACE TO LAND INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesLILY PAD A SOFT …LET THERE BE MOM INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesLET THERE BE MOM…FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS — $12,500 · Human ServicesFOSTERING GREAT …OPEN DOOR HOME — $7,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR HOMEADAPTIVE PICKLEBALL — $5,000 · Human ServicesBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation — $50,000 · ReligionREACH OUT AND READ INC — $1,000 · EducationMom and Pop Alliance — $100 · Community Improvement
Other$477,480Health$150,000Human Services$117,500Religion$50,000Education$1,000Community Improvement$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $105,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetExtra Special People Inc — $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST FRANCES FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC — $28,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPrisma Health-Upstate — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBon Secours - St Francis Health System Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRIZE Prevention Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLILY PAD A SOFT PLACE TO LAND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLET THERE BE MOM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFOSTERING GREAT IDEAS — $12,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DOOR HOME — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - COOSA VALLEY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetADAPTIVE PICKLEBALL — $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Charity Ball Board of…John I Smith Charitie…Prisma Health-UpstateDabo's All in Team Fo…South Carolina Christ…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charity Ball Board of GreenvilleSC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charity Ball Board of Greenville · John I Smith Charities Inc · Prisma Health-Upstate · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ray & Charyl Schroeder Grace 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ray & Charyl Schroeder Grace Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ray & Charyl Schroeder Grace Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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