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Schauer Family Fund 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.

$103k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$230kArts & Culture$106kHealth$38kCommunity Improvement$23kEducation$22kYouth Development$15kFood & Nutrition$13kReligion$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CommQuest$33,333
Palace Theatre 100th Annv Capital Campaign$16,667
United Way of Greater Stark County$12,000
Arts in Stark$10,000
The Aultman Foundation$7,550
Buckeye Council$5,050
Giffords$5,000
Food Bank$5,000
The MetroHealth Foundation$5,000
Ideastream Public Media$2,500
Individual grant recipient$500
McKinley Presidential Library & Museum$200
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank$100
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation$100
The Cleveland Orchestra$100
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $5k → 17%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$474k · 31 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
27

Total granted

$474k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+19%

Still filing today

45%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

  • I
    IDEASTREAM
    4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • AR
    AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +43%
  • BW
    Baldwin Wallace University
    5× · 2019–2023 · $3k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CC
    CANTON CITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SA
    SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -31%
  • PR
    Port Royal Community Charitable Fund
    one grant, 2024 · $3k

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
Ohio Bankers League

Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.

Community Improvement
2
Stark Economic Development Board Inc

We strengthen stark county by driving business growth and leading its economic transformation.

Community Improvement
3
Community Building Partnership of Stark County Inc

To promote the revitalization of neighborhoods in stark county by leading partnership-based, neighborhood-specific, revitalization efforts and developing programs that support community reinvestment.

Community Improvement
4
Akron Community Foundation

To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…

Philanthropy
5
The Cleveland Foundation

Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

Philanthropy
6
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

7
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron

To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.

Health
8
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.

9
Akron Soul Train

Akron soul train (ast) is a multidisciplinary residency program that provides 12-15 artists each year with paid residencies. our mission is to offer ohio-based visual, performing, and literary artists the space, time, and financial…

Arts & Culture
10
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

11
Akron Parks Collaborative

To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…

Recreation & Sports
12
Stark County Farm Bureau

To improve the economic well being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stark Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 61 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr16%15%35–55yr15%59%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr15%50%55yr+

The field is 18% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
12%
4,086/35,249

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

26 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. 26 of the 64 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AULTMAN FOUNDATION — $137,750 · OtherAULTMAN FOUNDATIONCommQuest — $66,667 · OtherCommQuestUNITED WAY STARK COUNTY — $59,100 · OtherUNITED WAY STARK COUNTYAULTMAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $30,300 · OtherAULTMAN HEALTH FOUNDATIONJRC CAPITAL CAMPAIGN — $22,500 · OtherJRC CAPITAL CAMPAIGNPalace Theatre 100th Annv Capital Campaign — $16,667 · Other+42 more — $74,700 · Other+42 moreARTS IN STARK — $46,000 · Arts & CultureARTS IN STARKSTARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,375 · Arts & CultureSTARK COUNTY …+2 more — $1,300 · Arts & CultureUnited Way of Greater Stark County — $24,000 · PhilanthropySTARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,650 · PhilanthropyIDEASTREAM — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 436 BUCKEYE COUNCIL — $5,050 · Youth DevelopmentAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK — $7,700 · Food & NutritionTHE FOODBANK INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS — $5,000 · Human ServicesStark County Diaper Bank Inc — $500 · Human ServicesTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $210 · Health+2 more — $200 · Health
Other$407,684Arts & Culture$62,675Philanthropy$28,650Youth Development$15,050Food & Nutrition$12,700Human Services$5,500Health$5,410

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 budgetARTS IN STARK — $46,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Stark County — $24,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,375 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK — $7,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO — $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF STARK & WAYNE COUNTIES — $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStark County Diaper Bank Inc — $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTARK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAY-A-WHILE CAT SHELTER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $210 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Stark Parks — $125 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS CENTER INC — $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ARTS IN STARK
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County
  • Who funds STARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM
  • Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 436 BUCKEYE COUNCIL
  • Who funds THE FOODBANK INC
  • Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS
  • Who funds STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Baldwin Wallace University
  • Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
  • Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF STARK & WAYNE COUNTIES
  • Who funds Stark County Diaper Bank Inc
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

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.

Stark Community FoundationOH30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stark Community Foundation · Hoover Foundation Income Account · The Ward J and Joy A Timken Foundation · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Timken Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · North Canton Medical Foundation · Marathon Petroleum Foundation Inc · Hoover W Henry Fund Ta · WR Timken Jr Foundation · The Fitzpatrick Foundation Inc

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 Schauer Family Fund 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report 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.

    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 64 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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