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Samuel Schneider Foundation Inc

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.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$283kAnimals$132kEducation$102kReligion$53kFood & Nutrition$33kHuman Services$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$31kHousing & Shelter$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$992k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION$10,000
STONE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$8,000
FORSYTH COUNTY DAY SCHOOL$8,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$7,000
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$7,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$5,000
HOPE OF WINSTON SALEM$3,000
CONGREGATION EMANUEL$3,000
ELEPHANT SANCTUARY$3,000
FIFTH ST MINISTRIES$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
IREDELL FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY$2,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FIFTH ST MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%FIFTH ST MINISTRIES: $4k → 9%FIFTH ST MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%FIFTH ST MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%IREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%IREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%IREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%IREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%FIFTH ST MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%FIFTH ST MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%IREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%FIFTH ST MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%IREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 9%IREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 9%FIFTH ST MINISTRIES: $1k → 9%IREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 9%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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$672k · 23 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
5

Total granted

$672k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+2%

Still filing today

70%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther

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

  • AW
    AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +54%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +120%
  • TS
    The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis
    7× · 2019–2025 · $72k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • MF
    MOVE FOR JENN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -40%
  • FM
    FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +2%

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
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
2
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
The Shriners' Hospital for Children

Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)

Health
5
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
6
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
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
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
Sign Fracture Care International

Sign partners with overseas surgeons to build sustainable orthopaedic capacity by donating education, instruments, and implants. by working with teaching hospitals and hosting educational conferences worldwide, sign equips surgeons to heal…

Health
11
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%49%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,542

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

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 32 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $84,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis — $72,000 · HealthThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $61,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCTHE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · HealthTHE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOB…MOVE FOR JENN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthCONGREGATION EMANUEL — $34,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANUELIndividual grant recipient — $18,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…HOSPICE — $18,000 · OtherHOSPICEIREDELL FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY — $14,000 · OtherIREDELL FRIENDS OF THE …DOVE HOUSE — $14,000 · OtherDOVE HOUSETEMPLE EMANUEL — $14,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUELSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $8,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL …SMILE TRAIN INC — $8,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCTROUTMAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $7,500 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT — $5,000 · Other+3 more — $6,000 · OtherAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $85,600 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUN…THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $28,000 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUAR…LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC — $18,300 · AnimalsLAKE NORMAN HUMANE IN…FORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $46,000 · EducationFORSYTH COUNT…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $37,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLE…+1 more — $2,700 · EducationDIAKONOS INC — $23,500 · Human ServicesIREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesG4G MINISTRIES INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $23,000 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR — $3,000 · InternationalFood For Days — $16,200 · Food & NutritionHOPE OF WINSTON SALEM INC — $3,000 · Food & NutritionPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $2,000 · Civil Rights
Health$257,000Other$146,700Animals$131,900Education$85,700Human Services$41,500International$26,000Food & Nutrition$19,200Civil Rights$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $85,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $84,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis — $72,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $61,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $46,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $37,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $28,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDIAKONOS INC — $23,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC — $18,300 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFood For Days — $16,200 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetIREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC — $13,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMOVE FOR JENN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetG4G MINISTRIES INC — $4,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE OF WINSTON SALEM INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE — $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIREDELL COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds FORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE
  • Who funds DIAKONOS INC
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC
  • Who funds Food For Days
  • Who funds IREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds MOVE FOR JENN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC
  • Who funds G4G MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR
  • Who funds HOPE OF WINSTON SALEM INC
  • Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE
  • Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT
  • Who funds IREDELL COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING 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.

United Way of Iredell County IncNC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Iredell County Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Samuel Schneider Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Samuel Schneider Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Samuel Schneider Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 32 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.

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