· Private foundation
Schoettmer Family Foundation Inc
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 $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ARK CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $12,700 |
| IMPACT MINISTRIES | $11,000 |
| HCCO | $1,500 |
| CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +68% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- TAThe Ark Christian Ministries2× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +28%
- HFHOPE FAMILY CARE CENTER3× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +108%
- MMMephibosheth Ministries Inc2× · 2018–2022 · $2k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- WCWE CARE PREGNANCY CENTERone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -15%
- TBTEEN BLAST MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -16%
- WIWAYFINDERS INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Pursue Ministries has the mission to pursue an eternal impact by introducing others to Jesus Christ, teaching the Bible and training disciples through one-on-one meetings, small groups, resources, retreats and seminars.
Our mission is to reach the unreached and teach the untaught with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Youth for christ reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners, to raise up life-long followers of jesus who lead by the godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and…
Our mission is to radically love and bring hope to teens by serving weekly meals to hungry students, mentoring and equipping teen moms, providing healthy and life-giving relationships, and working with teens in the juvenile detention…
In Christ Ministries exists to bring the message of Gods love grace and truth to children teens and adults. We do this through training and outreach events.
Bring connection to churches for ministry and education in local and global mission
Love Life is uniting and mobilizing the church to create a culture of love and life that will bring an end to abortion and the orphan crisis.
Assist in evangelizing the youth and student culture, assist Christian students and leaders to achieve spiritual maturity and spread the Christian message.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
In his Image Ministrys purpose is to provide food for the hungry, safe child care for the working, and teaching the ministry of Jesus Crist.
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teen Blast Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 20 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
13 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. 13 of the 29 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 The Ark Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds WE CARE PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE FAMILY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEEN BLAST MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WAYFINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT IMPACT OF WESTFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds UNCAGED ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION INDY INC ↗
- Who funds Mephibosheth Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGACY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Fueled For School ↗
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.
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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 Schoettmer Family Foundation Inc 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.
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