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Schoemaker Family Foundation at a glance

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Schoemaker 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$250kEducation$105kArts & Culture$23kEnvironment$5kHousing & Shelter$3kPhilanthropy$2kPublic Benefit$1kAnimals$900
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NPR$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%National Audubon Society: $400 → 17%World Wildlife Fund: $500 → 14%Bethesda Hospital Foundation: $15k → 11%Spinal CSF Leak Foundation: $55k → 12%Thomas Jefferson University: $50k → 8%National Wildlife Federation: $500 → 6%Nature Conservancy: $4k → 7%Turkish Philanthropy Funds: $2k → 17%League of Women Voters Education Fund: $1k → 14%Baptist Health Bethesda Hospital #3: $15k → 11%Spinal CSF Leak Foundation: $45k → 12%Thomas Jefferson University: $30k → 8%Baptist Health Bethesda Hospital #3: $15k → 11%Spinal CSF Leak Foundation: $30k → 12%Thomas Jefferson University: $25k → 8%Bethesda Hospital Foundation: $15k → 11%Spinal CSF Leak Foundation: $30k → 12%Baptist Health South Florida Foundation: $15k → 11%Spinal CSF Leak Foundation: $10k → 12%Tester Construction Gives: $3k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$335k · 4 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$335k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+27%

Still filing today

25%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • SC
    Spinal CSF Leak Foundation
    5× · 2019–2024 · $170k · revenue -1% · 31% of their budget
  • TJ
    Thomas Jefferson University
    3× · 2021–2023 · $105k
  • BH
    Baptist Health Bethesda Hospital #3
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k

Funded once

  • BH
    Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -41%
  • JV
    Jacoba van Tongeren Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • LL
    Leukemia & Lymphoma Society via Dylan Synder
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
4
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
5
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
6
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
The Everglades Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
10
The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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11
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
12
American Farmland Trust

Saves the land that sustains us by protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Wildlife Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Spinal Csf Leak Foundation. 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

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 15 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Thomas Jefferson University: $105,000 · OtherThomas Jefferson UniversityBaptist Health Bethesda Hospital #3: $30,000 · OtherBaptist Health Bethesda Hospital #3Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc: $30,000 · OtherBethesda Hospital Foundation IncJacoba van Tongeren Foundation: $12,500 · OtherJacoba van Tongeren FoundationNPR: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $13,400 · Other+5 moreSpinal CSF Leak Foundation: $170,000 · HealthSpinal CSF Leak FoundationBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc: $15,000 · HealthBaptist Health South Florida Foundation IncTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC: $1,500 · InternationalNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $500 · AnimalsWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $500 · Environment
Other$200,900Health$185,000International$1,500Animals$500Environment$500

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 budgetSpinal CSF Leak Foundation: $170,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 15 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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