· Private foundation
Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $548k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE BETH EL OF BOCA RATON | $250,000 |
| APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $162,500 |
| EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $85,000 |
| ACWISWEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $50,000 |
| TEACHER'S COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE OF HIGH COUNTRY | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND | $25,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $15,000 |
| JEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $5,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $5,000 |
| ZAKA NORTH INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its 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 +50% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +39%
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $400k · revenue +187%
- TCTeachers College Columbia University8× · 2018–2025 · $390k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- KCKBY Congregations Together Incone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +4%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Incone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +4%- IUISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +130%
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 university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
Jewish national fund gives all generations of jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of israel and its people.
The international fellowship of christian and jews is the leading non-profit building bridges between christians and jews, blessing israel and the jewish people around the world with, humanitarian care and life-saving aid.
Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…
To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…
The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 35 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 APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds KBY Congregations Together Inc ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ZAKA NORTH INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds Helping Israel Fund ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
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