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Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$898k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$11M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalHealthPhilanthropyEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$883k8%
FY202416$925k38%
FY202315$751k0%
FY202216$755k13%
FY202114$698k21%
FY202014$703k14%
FY201916$734k19%
FY201815$635kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$2.1MEducation$1.7MHealth$1.4MScience & Tech$470kInternational$291kCivil Rights$90kEnvironment$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$49kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAppalachian State University Foundation Inc: $1,320,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc: $400,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $390,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $210,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMount Sinai Medical Center Foundation: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachian Regional Healthcare Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $70,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $70,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWaterkeeper Alliance Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKBY Congregations Together Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsraaid US Global Humanitarian Assistance Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetZaka North Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $13,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope for Haiti Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Israel Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for Urban Community Services: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc

How much does Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc give?
Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $897,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Education (28%), Health (23%).
Who are Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Temple Beth El of Boca Raton ($2.0M), Appalachian State University Foundation Inc ($1.3M), American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc ($400k).
Does Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc based?
Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 35 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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