· Private foundation
Scheidt Family Foundation 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $235,000 |
| UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM SCHEIDT SEMINAR | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS ATHLETICS | $100,000 |
| SCHOOL OF MUSIC EXCELLENCE FUND | $100,000 |
| DIXON GALLERY AND GARDEN | $55,000 |
| REGIONAL ONE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION | $22,800 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| OVERTOWN PARK SHELL | $10,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Scheidt Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 60%.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $668k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $738k · revenue +227%
- AJAspen Jewish Center9× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +116%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHISone grant, 2017 · $55k
- TJTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
See Disclosure Above.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
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.
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…
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.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 91 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 UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Aspen Jewish Center ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Dixon Gallery and Gardens ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds LAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Scheidt Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scheidt Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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