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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.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$121kHealth$113kEducation$71kFood & Nutrition$66kHuman Services$63kCrime & Legal$30kYouth Development$27kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$255k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$10,000
A WOMAN'S PLACE$5,000
SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATES$5,000
GIRLS FIRST$5,000
CENTER SCHOOL$5,000
TE CARES$5,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY AMBLER$3,500
SO MUCH TO GIVE INCLUSIVE CAFE PA$3,000
GREENER PARTNERS$2,875
RJ LEONARD FOUNDATION$2,500
LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION$2,500
ANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLIN$2,500
OHAT BEDS FOR KIDS$2,500
BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $3k → 6%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $3k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $3k → 7%DOYLESTOWN AREA FISH: $1k → 6%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $3k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $2k → 7%EXPRESSIVE PATH: $2k → 7%WELCOMING THE STRANGER: $1k → 6%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $1k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $500 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$507k · 34 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
28

Total granted

$507k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+20%

Still filing today

53%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CV
    COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +120%
  • CC
    CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +39%
  • AW
    A WOMAN'S PLACE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • LS
    LA SALLE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • M
    MAGIC
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Philadelphia Children's Alliance

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…

Crime & Legal
2
Educating Communities for Parenting Inc

Using the parent-child model ecp increases the potential for developing life-long positive relationship.

Human Services
3
Pathways Pa Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
5
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

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…

Education
6
Center for Victims

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…

Human Services
7
Women Against Abuse Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia

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…

Crime & Legal
9
Girls Inc of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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,…

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10
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
11
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
12
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Support Center for Child Advocates; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
26/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A WOMAN'S PLACE: $35,000 · OtherA WOMAN'S PLACEIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRJ LEONARD FOUNDATION: $29,600 · OtherRJ LEONARD FOUNDATIONTEMPLE UNIVERSITY AMBLER: $28,000 · OtherTEMPLE UNIVERSITY AMBLERST AUGUSTINE ACADEMY FOR GIRLS: $23,040 · OtherST AUGUSTINE ACADEMY FOR GIRLSCENTER SCHOOL: $13,750 · OtherOHAT BEDS FOR KIDS: $12,500 · OtherWHYY INC: $12,500 · Other+36 more: $133,950 · Other+36 moreCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $65,100 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEE…PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE: $11,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD…Active Minds Inc: $4,500 · HealthPILLARS OF LIGHT AND LOVE: $4,000 · Health+4 more: $6,500 · Health+4 moreCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $49,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTER COUNTY …PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $24,500 · Food & NutritionPENNSYLVANIA HO…+1 more: $2,500 · Food & NutritionLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · EnvironmentGREENER PARTNERS: $8,875 · EnvironmentBOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · EnvironmentCASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $22,500 · Civil RightsGIRLS FIRST: $10,000 · EducationLA SALLE ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $2,500 · EducationVITA EDUCATION SERVICES INC: $1,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesEXPRESSIVE PATH INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesDOYLESTOWN AREA FISH: $1,000 · Human ServicesFor the Girls Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesMATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesWELCOMING THE STRANGER INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$318,340Health$91,100Food & Nutrition$76,000Environment$23,875Civil Rights$22,500Education$19,500Human Services$19,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $65,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $49,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetA WOMAN'S PLACE: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $24,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER SCHOOL: $13,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWHYY INC: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLS FIRST: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGREENER PARTNERS: $8,875 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOURNELYF SPECIAL CAMP: $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWORTHWHILE WEAR INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLA SALLE ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetActive Minds Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPILLARS OF LIGHT AND LOVE: $4,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING FRIENDLY FARM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEXPRESSIVE PATH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SPRINGS EQUESTRIAN THERAPY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVITA EDUCATION SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOYLESTOWN AREA FISH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA METRO WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFor the Girls Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 WHYY INC ↗
  • Who funds LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE ↗
  • Who funds ONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS FIRST ↗
  • Who funds GREENER PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
  • Who funds BOURNELYF SPECIAL CAMP ↗
  • Who funds WORTHWHILE WEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
  • Who funds PILLARS OF LIGHT AND LOVE ↗
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds ANN SILVERMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds HELPING FRIENDLY FARM INC ↗

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Foundations Community…The Patricia Kind Fam…Genuardi Family Found…The Cedarcrest Charit…W W Smith Charitable …The Pfizer Foundation…Bucks County Foundati…Penn Community Bank F…The Gordon Charter Fo…Phillies Charities Inc
The Philadelphia FoundationPA35.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Schiel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schiel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Schiel Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Schiel Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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