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Schiel 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| A WOMAN'S PLACE | $5,000 |
| GIRLS FIRST | $5,000 |
| SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATES | $5,000 |
| TE CARES | $5,000 |
| CENTER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY AMBLER | $3,500 |
| SO MUCH TO GIVE INCLUSIVE CAFE PA | $3,000 |
| GREENER PARTNERS | $2,875 |
| ANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLIN | $2,500 |
| HELPING FRIENDLY FARM | $2,500 |
| BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| OHAT BEDS FOR KIDS | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 9 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- CVCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE7× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +120%
- CCCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +39%
- AWA WOMAN'S PLACE7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- LSLA SALLE ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +17%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- MMAGICone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
Pca promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in philadelphia. using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide…
Using the parent-child model ecp increases the potential for developing life-long positive relationship.
To provide residential and community-based services and advocacy for women, children, and families, providing job training and employment assistance, as well as outreach and residential programs in order to help its clients achieve…
Summary
Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Center for victims offers a public service in allegheny county by helping individuals, families, and communities heal from the trauma of sexual assault/abuse, intimate partner violence, community violence, and all forms of violence and…
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
The anti-violence partnership of philadelphia (avp) is a victim service agency whose mission is to end the cycle of violence in our community by providing free intervention, prevention, and support services to children, youth, and adult…
Our mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold through direct service and advocacy. in partnership with schools and at our girls inc. center, we focus on the development of the whole girl. she learns to value herself,…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Support Center for Child Advocates and the most unlike its peers is Shoot Basketballs Not People. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 71 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 COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW ↗
- Who funds CASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE ↗
- Who funds ONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS FIRST ↗
- Who funds GREENER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BOURNELYF SPECIAL CAMP ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
- Who funds WORTHWHILE WEAR INC ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
- Who funds PILLARS OF LIGHT AND LOVE ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL 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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Foundations Community Partnership · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Genuardi Family Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Bucks County Foundation · Penn Community Bank Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc
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 Schiel Family 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.
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
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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