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Rudi Schulte Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$623kEducation$546kArts & Culture$392kRecreation & Sports$328kAnimals$303kCivil Rights$155kYouth Development$139kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k50 grants · $175k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $265k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK IN$60,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$30,000
TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION$25,000
SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE$25,000
UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION$20,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$20,000
JASMINE STAR FOUNDATION$15,000
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY VETERANS$15,000
FLORA VISTA ELEMENTARY PTA$15,000
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$10,000
WALDORF SCHOOL OF SANTA BARBARA$10,000
ARIEL THEATRICAL INC$10,000
AMAZING STRAYS RESCUE$10,000
ATLAS ANIMAL RESCUE$10,000
SOLVANG FESTIVAL THEATER$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $580k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SEND IT FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $2k → 21%IMPACT HUB TRUST: $20k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $33k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $30k → 11%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25k → 11%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $20k → 11%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK: $6k → 11%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK: $5k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $7k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $42k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $41k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $40k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $3k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $30k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $3k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $6k → 11%CASA DE AMISTAD: $3k → 11%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $25k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $15k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $8k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $8k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $8k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $7k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $5k → 14%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $3k → 14%COMMUNIFY: $10k → 14%COMMUNIFY: $10k → 14%COMMUNIFY: $5k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $24k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%ADAM'S ANGELS: $10k → 14%ADAM'S ANGELS: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 146 repeat orgs$416k to everyone else

146 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 96 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

146
113

Total granted

$4.0M
$349k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+43%

Still filing today

63%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $458k · revenue +24%
  • TB
    TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +52%
  • CA
    CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $199k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • EF
    ENCHANGED FARM SANCTUARY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • IH
    IMPACT HUB TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +203%
  • TW
    THE WAHINE PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +115%

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
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
2
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc

The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.

Environment
3
Fund for Santa Barbara Inc

Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.

Philanthropy
4
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation

The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.

Public Benefit
5
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

Creating excellent exhibits and educational experiences that celebrate the santa barbara channel and illuminate our rich connections with the sea.

Arts & Culture
6
Southern California Equine Foundation Inc

Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses

Animals
7
Santa Barbara Cemetery Association

Cemetery association

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8
The Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary

To rescue, house and rehabilitate unwanted birds and provide education to parrot owners.

Animals
9
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health
10
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara

The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.

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11
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
12
Santa Barbara County Trails Council

Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Yardi Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyProfessional Association Fo…Regional Chambers of Commer…Public Safety Labor Organiz…Animal Rescue and Rehabilit…Christian Evangelical Minis…Nonprofit Capacity and Syst…Performing Arts Organizatio…Family Philanthropic Founda…Holistic Support for Disadv…Affordable Housing Developm…Community Support ServicesCharter and Independent Sch…Hospital & Medical Research…Jewish Community Organizati…Asian Cultural Heritage Org…Youth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%50%20–35yr11%9%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%5/189
the rest of the field
14%
26,000/186,789

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

168 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. 168 of the 281 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
163/168
Grantees still filing
114/168
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Young America's Foundation — $135,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationBISHOP GARCIA DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC — $130,500 · OtherBISHOP GARCIA DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INCSOLVANG FESTIVAL THEATER — $111,500 · OtherSOLVANG FESTIVAL THEATERJASMINE STAR FOUNDATION — $80,000 · OtherST RAPHAEL SCHOOL — $78,200 · OtherST RAPHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH — $71,000 · Other+124 more — $1,393,900 · Other+124 morePANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $457,500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION …TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION — $228,050 · HealthTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDAT…GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION — $88,601 · HealthGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATI…PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $80,000 · HealthPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATIONCUREBOUND — $40,000 · Health+11 more — $76,000 · Health+11 moreCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $198,500 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETE…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $122,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PR…THE COLAB FOUNDATION — $88,500 · Human ServicesTHE COLAB FOUNDATI…Solvang Friendship House — $79,000 · Human ServicesSolvang Friendship…DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION — $62,450 · Human ServicesDALMATIAN DREAMS D…THE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT — $35,000 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $25,000 · Human Services+9 more — $80,970 · Human Services+9 moreARIEL THEATRICAL INC — $56,000 · Arts & CultureThe Adderley School Foundation — $30,000 · Arts & CultureNotes For Notes Inc — $29,500 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA NATURE ART MUSEUM — $21,500 · Arts & CultureCarriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara — $16,500 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SURF MUSEUM — $15,000 · Arts & CultureARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC — $14,500 · Arts & CulturePIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION — $14,500 · Arts & CultureFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC — $10,200 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $22,500 · Arts & CultureUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $84,700 · EducationNEW MILLENNIUM SECONDARY SCHOOL — $30,500 · EducationENDOWMENT FOR YOUTH COMMITTEE — $20,000 · EducationSANTA BARBARA CHARTER SCHOOL — $16,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION — $12,000 · EducationSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationLOMPOC TEEN CENTER — $8,000 · EducationFREEDOM 4 YOUTH — $7,000 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $7,000 · Education+2 more — $8,500 · EducationSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $74,566 · AnimalsATLAS ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION — $28,000 · AnimalsAMAZING STRAYS RESCUE — $10,000 · AnimalsGRAND-PAWS SENIOR SANCTUARY — $10,000 · AnimalsRETURN TO FREEDOM INC — $9,000 · AnimalsK-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC — $7,000 · AnimalsGOLDEN YEARS DOG SANCTUARY — $6,000 · Animals+3 more — $8,500 · AnimalsSave the Waves Coalition — $94,222 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA AUDUBON SOCIETY — $10,500 · EnvironmentWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST — $6,000 · Environment
Other$2,000,100Health$970,151Human Services$721,920Arts & Culture$230,200Education$203,700Animals$153,066Environment$110,722

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $457,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION — $228,050 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $198,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $135,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $122,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Waves Coalition — $94,222 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION — $88,601 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTHE COLAB FOUNDATION — $88,500 over 9y, 37% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $84,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSolvang Friendship House — $79,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $74,566 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION — $62,450 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCHELSEA'S LIGHT FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetARIEL THEATRICAL INC — $56,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION — $41,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCUREBOUND — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT — $35,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetWE SUPPORT THE TROOPS INC — $30,500 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetNEW MILLENNIUM SECONDARY SCHOOL — $30,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Adderley School Foundation — $30,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetNotes For Notes Inc — $29,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetATLAS ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION — $28,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $27,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAFETY TOWN OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $25,500 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA NATURE ART MUSEUM — $21,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetOPERATION SURF — $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetIMPACT HUB TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetENDOWMENT FOR YOUTH COMMITTEE — $20,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetUNITE TO LIGHT INC — $19,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCarriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara — $16,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHARTER SCHOOL — $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA PRO SKILLS ACADEMY — $16,000 over 3y, 91% of budgetST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION — $15,060 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA SURF MUSEUM — $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetADAMS ANGELS — $15,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetONE805 INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA — $14,870 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC — $14,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVIKING CHARITIES INC — $13,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY — $11,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION — $11,000 over 4y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Save the Waves Coalition ↗
  • Who funds GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLAB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Solvang Friendship House ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHELSEA'S LIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIEL THEATRICAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
  • Who funds THE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MILLENNIUM SECONDARY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds The Adderley School Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Notes For Notes Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLAS ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFETY TOWN OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Ann Jackson Family Fo…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Williams-Corbett Foun…Mosher FoundationManitou FundTowbes FoundationSchlinger Family Foun…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…James S Bower Foundat…Kim and Andrew D Busc…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA101.9× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Manitou Fund · Towbes Foundation · Schlinger Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Kim and Andrew D Busch Family 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 Rudi Schulte Family 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 · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Safe Boating Council Inc — 61% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 281 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.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home