· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ST THOMAS AQUINAS | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| IN MOTION | $4,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $3,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Schaefer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 41 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 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds WORK OF CHRIST COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Womankind Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Schaefer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schaefer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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