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Schirmer Family Foundationinc

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.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Religion$264kCrime & Legal$50kHuman Services$49kArts & Culture$45kYouth Development$26kPublic Benefit$25kHealth$20kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE$50,000
JACO BOOYENS MINISTRIES$50,000
CHILDHELP INC$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE$25,000
THE DREAM INSTITUTE$10,000
DREAM CITY CHURCH$2,500
EAGLE VENTURE FOUNDATION$1,900
PHOENIX DREAM CENTER$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY24–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILDHELP INC: $25k → 11%THE DREAM INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%CHILDHELP INC: $5k → 11%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 90% of Schirmer Family Foundationinc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 0%.

Schirmer Family Foundationinclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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
Childsafe Colorado Inc

Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…

Crime & Legal
2
Child Crisis Arizona

To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.

Crime & Legal
3
Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme

Project extreme provides innovative programming and solutions for teens in -need, their families and communities. project extreme uses a combination of experiential and intellectual learning opportunities to provide the social, educational…

Youth Development
4
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
5
Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services
6
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
7
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
8
City Help Inc of Phoenix

Our mission is to reach in and mine the incredible potential we believe lies within the lives of at-risk youth, the homeless, and needy families of our community by restoring hope and allowing them to dream again.

Human Services
9
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
10
Childrens Center

The mission of childrens center is to support and medically assess children who are suspected victims of abuse or neglect.

Crime & Legal
11
Genesis Program Inc

Genesis city's mission is to effect positive change in our community by empowering disadvantaged youth to acquire the education and work skills they need to become lifelong learners and productive members of their community in this and…

Human Services
12
The Conflict Center

The conflict center equips people with practical skills to navigate, transform and embrace everyday conflict.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dream Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $158,541 · OtherMUSEUM OF THE BIBLEJCUC BLESSINGTHE ISAIAH PROJECTS: $100,000 · OtherJCUC BLESSINGTHE ISAIAH PROJECTSAMERICAN MEDIA COUNCIL: $45,000 · OtherAMERICAN MEDIA COUNCILTURNING POINT USA INC: $25,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDREAM CENTER FOUNDATION DONATION: $18,100 · Other+5 more: $10,400 · OtherSHARETOGETHER ORG: $50,000 · Crime & LegalSHARETOGETH…CHILDHELP INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE DREAM INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $500 · Youth DevelopmentCancer Support Community Arizona: $10,000 · Health
Other$382,041Crime & Legal$50,000Human Services$40,000Youth Development$25,500Health$10,000

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 budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $158,541 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Support Community Arizona: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DREAM INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAndy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
  • Who funds SHARETOGETHER ORG ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
  • Who funds Cancer Support Community Arizona ↗
  • Who funds THE DREAM INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Schirmer Family Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schirmer Family Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 17 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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