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Schaefer Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| CHURCH OF RESURRECTION | $24,688 |
| GRANDLY MISSIONS | $9,884 |
| COAR PEACE MISSION | $6,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| ST THOMAS AQUINAS | $5,000 |
| IN MOTION | $4,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $3,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Schaefer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DUDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2021 · $45k · revenue +24%
- CPCOAR PEACE MISSION INC4× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +73%
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $11k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- COChurch of the Resurrectionone grant, 2021 · $23k
- KOKnights of Columbusone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SOSisters of Notre Dame de Nemurone grant, 2020 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to advocate and pray for womens ordination as deacons, priests, and bishops into an inclusive and accountable roman catholic church.
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
To provide service to people in need and to address social ills that undermind the dignity of the person. the ultimate goal of catholic charities is to create positive life changing opportunities for those in need without regard to color,…
Our mission is to advance the gospel of jesus christ through the next generation by engaging the lost and discipling believers on college campuses.
Catholic charities serving portage and stark counties shares the mission held by catholic charities usa: to provide service to people in need, advocate for justice in social structures, and call the entire church and other people of good…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Motivated by faith, catholic social services helps poor and vulnerable seniors and families reach their potential.
Our mission as the religious order of global servants is to aid in the renewal and renovation of civilization at the dawn of the third millennium through the spread of the gospel of jesus christ and the dissemination of his teachings.
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Catholic charities, a ministry of the catholic diocese of albany, is committed to active witness on behalf of the scriptural values of mercy and justice. catholic charities, recognizing human need at all stages of life, responds to all…
See schedule o description of our mission and vision.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Esperanza Threads Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 41 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COAR PEACE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Grandly Missions Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA THREADS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds WORK OF CHRIST COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Womankind Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL 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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Schaefer 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.
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.
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