· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY RADIO | $1,000 |
| FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE RENEWAL | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC SERVICES APPEAL | $1,000 |
| FAMILY RENEWAL PROJECT | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR CLIENT SAFETY | $1,000 |
| COUPLE TO COUPLE LEAGUE | $500 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $500 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $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 (FY19–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +17% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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 ×195
- FRFAMILY RENEWAL PROJECT2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- TNTHE NAZARENE FUND MERCURY ONEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CCCORPUS CHRISTI ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
The organization provides education, adult training, pediatric therapy and residence services for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled.
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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.
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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)
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 57 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 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 ↗
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- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGELS IN DISGUISE 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Schaeffer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schaeffer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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