· Private foundation
Scheidt Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $545k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $160,000 |
| ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION | $110,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION | $50,000 |
| REGIONAL ONE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
| DIXON GALLERY AND GARDEN | $20,000 |
| JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS | $19,250 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| LAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $11,500 |
| MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| LEVITT SHELL | $10,000 |
| SHELBY FARMS CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $3k) 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Scheidt Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 60% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $738k · revenue +227%
- AJAspen Jewish Center8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +116%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHISone grant, 2017 · $55k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
See Disclosure Above.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Museum of Memphis Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 83 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 UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Aspen Jewish Center ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds LAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC ↗
- Who funds Dixon Gallery and Gardens ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds IRIS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST 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: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Great Oaks Foundation · Plough Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Belz Foundation · Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation · The Goldsmith Family Foundation Inc · Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation
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 Scheidt Family 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.
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