· Private foundation
Schaeffer Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICA'S KIDS BELONG | $20,000 |
| HOLY ANGELS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| NOTRE DAME PRIORY | $4,500 |
| SSVM MISSIONS | $3,150 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| FAMILY RENEWAL PROJECT | $1,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY RADIO | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC SERVICES APPEAL | $1,000 |
| FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE RENEWAL | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR CLIENT SAFETY | $1,000 |
| COUPLE TO COUPLE LEAGUE | $500 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $500 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $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 (FY19–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- HAHoly Angels Academy3× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +17%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue ×150
- CFCenter for Client Safety Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- TNTHE NAZARENE FUND MERCURY ONEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CCCORPUS CHRISTI ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
The organization provides education, adult training, pediatric therapy and residence services for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled.
The dynamic catholic mission is to re-energize the catholic church in america by developing world-class resources that inspire people to rediscover the genius of catholicism.
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
Shalom Center provides residential and out service programs and treatment for clergy and other religious persons.
Inspired by the Gospel mandates to love, serve and teach, Catholic Charities provides care and services to improve the lives of Marylanders in need.
Epiphany Center residential treatment programs strengthen family life through early interventions when possible and by healing trauma, treating mental illness and substance abuse, and ending cycles of homelessness and poverty through…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
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)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Caritas Incorporated Dba Nearcare. 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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
17 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. 17 of the 57 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 NOTRE DAME PRIORY INC ↗
- Who funds Holy Angels Academy ↗
- Who funds Americas Kids Belong ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Client Safety Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RENEWAL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Caritas Incorporated DBA Nearcare ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGELS IN DISGUISE 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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Barbara and Albert Horton Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Schaeffer 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.
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.