· Private foundation
Schiller Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k35 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCYONE NEWTON FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NEWTON YMCA | $100,000 |
| PARK CENTRE MEMORY CARE UNIT | $40,690 |
| FIRST LUTHERAN NEIGHBORS HELPING NE | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF JASPER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| IOWA HOMELESS YOUTH | $2,500 |
| ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| DISCOVER HOPE 517 | $2,500 |
| NEWTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| AUGUSTANA COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| LCMS WORLD MISSION | $2,500 |
| PROJECT AWAKENEWTON ARBORETUM | $2,500 |
| JASPER COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD | $2,500 |
| CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE CENTER | $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 (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +49% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 11 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, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k 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
- ACAUGUSTANA COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +27%
- NANEWTON ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +630%
- BPBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- PCPRAIRIE CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY3× · 2022–2024 · $25k
- JCJASPER CO EMS SERVICES4× · 2021–2024 · $25k
- NMNewton Main Street3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue -38%
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.
Increase the quantity and quality of housing in newton, iowa
We, mercy medical center - newton and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy medical center - newton is a member of trinity health.
The newton development corporation strives to improve the economic well-being of the newton community. we accomplishthis through collaboration with other community stakeholders to increase investment in newton by retaining, growing,and…
To promote, develop, and sustain a connected system of greenway trails which support vibrant, healthy, and prosperous communities and the conservation of natural habitats, plants and wildlife.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Newton community events is a 501(c)(3) whose purpose is to help encourage community events in jasper county.
Reach for your potential, inc is a provider of adult daycare services and rehabilitation/housing of disabled individuals serving approximately 135 individuals from iowa city and the surrounding communities.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is My Warrior's Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Newton Main Street. 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 47 years old; the field is 41. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% 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 9% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 83 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 NEWTON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Newton Main Street ↗
- Who funds NEWTON ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVER HOPE 517 ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds JASPER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWTON COMMUNITY THEATRE 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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Fred Maytag Family Foundation · Smith Family Foundation Trust · Fnnb Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Donald C & Doris K Byers Charitable Trust · B D Charitable Trust · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Schiller 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.
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.