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Schewel Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$303k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$538kHuman Services$382kArts & Culture$349kPhilanthropy$175kHousing & Shelter$142kYouth Development$108kRecreation & Sports$90kFood & Nutrition$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$75,000
CAMP KUM-BA-YAH$25,000
LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS$20,000
JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER$10,000
INTERFAITH OUTREACH$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$10,000
AMAZEMENT SQUARE$10,000
PARKVIEW MISSION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
LYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE$10,000
BRINGING ANIMAL RENOVATIONS TO CAMPBELL COUNTY$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARKVIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $25k → 13%HUMANKIND: $15k → 8%PARKVIEW MISSION: $10k → 13%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS: $500 → 8%PARKVIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $10k → 13%CAMPBELL COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%CAMPBELL COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%CAMPBELL COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $10k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $5k → 13%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 34 repeat orgs$515k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
34

Total granted

$1.6M
$462k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

74%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +0%
  • RH
    RUSH HOMES INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $89k · revenue +250%
  • CK
    Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc
    3× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +222%

Funded once

  • CV
    CENTRAL VIRGINIA YMCA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -17%
  • RR
    ROANOKE REBOS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k

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
Miller Home of Lynchburg Virginia
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2
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
3
Lynchburg Area Center for Independent Living Inc

Provide services to individuals with disabilities to enable them to become fully integrated into society and achieve personal independence.

Human Services
4
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
5
Central Virginia Foundation for Economic Education&Improvement Inc

Furtherance of economic growth, education, training and development

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6
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc

Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.

Crime & Legal
7
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
8
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
9
Disability Law Center of Virginia

Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…

Human Services
10
Virginia Community Development Corp

VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.

Housing & Shelter
11
Lynchburg Baptist Retirement Community Llc

To provide "dignity in living" for senior adults who reside in this planned services community.

Housing & Shelter
12
Virginia University of Lynchburg

To provide a solid liberal arts and christian education program to all students

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bring Animal Renovations to Campbell County Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr13%12%5–10yr17%22%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr19%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr13%7%5–10yr17%13%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr19%22%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/53
the rest of the field
12%
126/1,069

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

50 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. 50 of the 77 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
29/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW VISTAS SCHOOL — $265,000 · OtherNEW VISTAS SCHOOLYMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $125,000 · OtherYMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIALYNCHBURG JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL — $100,000 · OtherLYNCHBURG JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCILCENTRAL VIRGINIA YMCA — $50,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC — $47,500 · OtherVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc — $50,000 · Other+44 more — $629,625 · Other+44 moreACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureACADEMY CENTER OF…AMAZEMENT SQUARE — $60,000 · Arts & CultureAMAZEMENT SQUAREENDSTATION THEATRE COMPANY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureENDSTATION THEATR…OPERA ON THE JAMES — $44,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA ON THE JAME…VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA CENTER F…VECTOR SPACE — $20,000 · Arts & CultureVECTOR SPACELynchburg Symphony Orchestra Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureLynchburg Symphon…Charlottesville Ballet — $15,000 · Arts & CultureJEFFERSON CHORAL SOCIETY — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $20,200 · Arts & Culture+3 moreRANDOLPH COLLEGE INC — $130,000 · EducationRANDOLPH C…LYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC — $40,000 · EducationLYNCHBURG …UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…+1 more — $5,000 · EducationCamp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc — $60,000 · Recreation & SportsJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsKIDS & PROS INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC — $16,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $15,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS — $15,000 · Human ServicesCAMPBELL COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesRUSH HOMES INC — $89,175 · Housing & ShelterGREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,267,125Arts & Culture$329,200Education$200,000Recreation & Sports$105,000Human Services$101,500Housing & Shelter$89,175Philanthropy$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRANDOLPH COLLEGE INC — $130,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRUSH HOMES INC — $89,175 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetGREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCamp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAMAZEMENT SQUARE — $60,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetENDSTATION THEATRE COMPANY — $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC — $47,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOPERA ON THE JAMES — $44,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $40,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA — $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC — $32,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $28,625 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS' HAVEN A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $26,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetDowntown Lynchburg Association — $25,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetVIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS — $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVECTOR SPACE — $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLynchburg Symphony Orchestra Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG — $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYNCHBURG GROWS — $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCharlottesville Ballet — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEFFERSON CHORAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetGLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIMPACT LIVING SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOWER CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCAMPBELL COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetSTONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLynchburg Covenant Fellowship Incorporated — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSeven Hills Chamber Music — $5,200 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetIRON LIVES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LYNCHBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetKIDS & PROS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBEDFORD AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMHERST GLEBE ARTS RESPONSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetSML GOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Greater Lynchburg Com…The Al Stroobants Fou…Easley Char Irr Tua 5…Centra Health IncFoster FoundationCarrington Family Fou…M4k Lynchburg IncThe Harry D Forsyth F…Centra Health Foundat…Liberty University IncRetail Merchants Foun…The Imperial Charitab…
Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA86.4× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Centra Health Inc · Foster Foundation · Carrington Family Foundation · M4k Lynchburg Inc · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Liberty University Inc · Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592 · The Imperial Charitable Trust

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 Schewel Charitable Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Schewel Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Schewel Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 77 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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