Oklahoma · Private foundation
Scheel Family Foundation
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.
- $117k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Scheel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $117k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $129k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $99k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $78k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $79k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $31k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $66k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $71k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tash Inc | $137,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Catholic Leadership Institute | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tulsa Area United Way | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Augustine Institute Inc | $40,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Seraphic Mass Association Inc | $28,540 | 6 | n/a |
| Fellowship of Catholic University Students | $17,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Eternal Word Television Network Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The University of Tulsa | $6,550 | 3 | 0% |
| Tulsa Catholic Womens Conference | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Sisters of the Poor | $4,000 | 3 | 8% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tash Inc | $137,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Catholic Leadership Institute | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tulsa Area United Way | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Augustine Institute Inc | $40,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Seraphic Mass Association Inc | $28,540 | 6 | n/a |
| Fellowship of Catholic University Students | $17,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Eternal Word Television Network Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The University of Tulsa | $6,550 | 3 | 0% |
| Tulsa Catholic Womens Conference | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Sisters of the Poor | $4,000 | 3 | 8% |
| The Becket Fund | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Mary's Catholic Church | $3,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Watts of Love | $3,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Domestic Violence Intervention Services | $3,700 | 1 | 0% |
| Unbound | $2,550 | 4 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Appeal of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia | $2,400 | 2 | n/a |
| St Joseph | $1,015 | 1 | n/a |
| Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Opera Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen | $875 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornell School District | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Sewickley Academy | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Good Grief Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Cross Catholic Outreach Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($334k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Scheel Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Scheel Family Foundation
- How much does Scheel Family Foundation give?
- Scheel Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $116,675 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Scheel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (39%), International (20%), Philanthropy (19%).
- Who are Scheel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tash Inc ($137k), Catholic Leadership Institute ($60k), Tulsa Area United Way ($50k).
- Does Scheel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Scheel Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Scheel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Scheel Family Foundation based?
- Scheel Family Foundation is based in OK.
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