California · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 53 to 86
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Rudi Schulte Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 68 | $497k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $431k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $569k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 75 | $491k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $509k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $429k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 86 | $494k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 73 | $487k | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $457,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation | $228,050 | 9 | 3% |
| Challenged Athletes Inc | $198,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Young America's Foundation | $135,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Bishop Garcia Diego High School Inc | $130,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $122,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Save the Waves Coalition | $94,222 | 6 | 3% |
| Gwendolyn Strong Foundation | $88,601 | 4 | 4% |
| The Colab Foundation | $88,500 | 9 | 37% |
| Uc San Diego Foundation | $84,700 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 185 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rudi Schulte Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Rudi Schulte Family Foundation
- How much does Rudi Schulte Family Foundation give?
- Rudi Schulte Family Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $500,402 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 86 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rudi Schulte Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Human Services (14%), Education (12%).
- Who are Rudi Schulte Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc ($458k), Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation ($228k), Challenged Athletes Inc ($199k).
- Does Rudi Schulte Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rudi Schulte 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 Rudi Schulte Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
- Where is Rudi Schulte Family Foundation based?
- Rudi Schulte Family Foundation is based in CA.
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