Virginia · Private foundation
Schewel Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $303k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations Schewel Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k 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 | 25 | $303k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $300k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $251k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $301k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $245k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $223k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $270k | 76% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $200k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Randolph College Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rush Homes Inc | $89,175 | 5 | 5% |
| Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Amazement Square | $60,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Academy Center of the Arts Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Endstation Theatre Company | $50,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc | $47,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Park View Community Mission Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Opera on the James | $44,000 | 4 | 4% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($815k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Schewel Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Schewel Charitable Foundation
- How much does Schewel Charitable Foundation give?
- Schewel Charitable Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $303,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Schewel Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Human Services (18%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Schewel Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Randolph College Inc ($130k), Rush Homes Inc ($89k), Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc ($60k).
- Does Schewel Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schewel Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Schewel Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, The Al Stroobants Foundation, Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715.
- Where is Schewel Charitable Foundation based?
- Schewel Charitable Foundation is based in VA.
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