How much does Rosalind and Franklyn Schaefer Family Foundation give?

Rosalind and Franklyn Schaefer Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $261,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Rosalind and Franklyn Schaefer Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (31%), Education (23%), Animals (19%).

Who are Rosalind and Franklyn Schaefer Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($233k), Long Island University ($206k), The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($120k).

Does Rosalind and Franklyn Schaefer Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Rosalind and Franklyn Schaefer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Rosalind and Franklyn Schaefer Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bessemer Giving Fund, The Broder Family Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.

Rosalind and Franklyn Schaefer Family Foundation

Rosalind and Franklyn Schaefer Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Rosalind and Franklyn Schaefer 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.

$261k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$80k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$399kEducation$298kAnimals$248kReligion$73kRecreation & Sports$58kPhilanthropy$55kFood & Nutrition$36kInternational$32kOther$0

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $35k
$10k–50k7 grants · $146k
$50k–250k1 grant · $80k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY	$80,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY	$25,000
CITY HARVEST	$24,000
TEMPLE OF ISRAEL NYC	$21,750
YALE UNIVERSITY	$20,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE	$20,000
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION	$20,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION	$15,450
THE COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE	$9,950
PINK AID	$5,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL OF GREAT NECK	$5,000
ASPCA	$5,000
THE JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY	$4,000
THE LTP FOUNDATION	$1,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 43 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+38%

Still filing today

67%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthAnimalsInternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

TA
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
8× · 2017–2024 · $233k · revenue +80%
LI
LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY
5× · 2018–2024 · $206k · revenue +5%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +578%

Funded once

PB
Palm Beach Masters Horse Show Inc
one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue -98%
CS
CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE OF NEWPORT
one grant, 2018 · $5k
BU
BRADLEY UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +5%

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.

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queens College Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Old Salem Farm Foundation Inc. 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

50 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. 50 of the 78 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/50

Grantees still filing

41/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$497,285Health$327,035Animals$259,083Philanthropy$93,000Education$64,000International$31,950Food & Nutrition$24,500

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.

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 Bessemer Giving FundNJ14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Broder Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 Rosalind and Franklyn Schaefer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rosalind and Franklyn Schaefer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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.

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