· Private foundation
Schon 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.
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 $10k33 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INCLUSION MATTERS | $11,000 |
| AUSSIE RESCUE SAN DIEGO | $5,000 |
| CCAE THEATRICALS | $4,803 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $4,801 |
| ST JOHN'S COLLEGE | $4,801 |
| THE UPPER VALLEY HAVEN | $3,000 |
| THE MONTSHIRE MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| TERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| HIGH HORSES CENTER FOR EQUINE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MAMA'S KITCHEN | $2,000 |
| LAND FOR GOOD | $2,000 |
| KEVIN BABBINGTON FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $1,300 |
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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +40% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 25 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- CGCHOKHOR GEPEL LING7× · 2017–2023 · $109k · revenue +144% · 52% of their budget
- WWAYPOINT5× · 2019–2023 · $24k · revenue +74%
- MMMONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $19k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- STSHE TREKS INCone grant, 2018 · $21k
- TCTHE CENTERone grant, 2019 · $8k
- AFAFE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +91%
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The new hampshire center for nonprofits strengthens and gives voice to the state's nonprofit sector by providing leadership development programs, facilitating collaboration, and offering learning opportunities for nonprofit leaders, staff,…
The mission of hampshire college is to foster a lifelong passion for learning, inquiry, and ethical citizenship that inspires students to contribute to knowledge, justice, and positive change in the world and, by doing so, to transform…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Beginnings Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Greenfield Review Literary Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 88 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 CHOKHOR GEPEL LING ↗
- Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT ↗
- Who funds MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CCAE THEATRICALS INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds AUSSIE RESCUE SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds FINDING OUR STRIDE ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds Second Growth Inc ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY FOSTER KIDS ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) OF THE UPPER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANOVER CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HANOVER IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HANOVER ROTARY CHARITIES 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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn · Barrette Family Fund · Frank and Brinna Sands Foundation · The Stannard & Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust · Claremont Savings Bank Foundation · Granite United Way
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 Schon 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Family Place Inc — 38% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Advance Transit Inc — 18% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- Montshire Museum of Science Inc — 4% of income from government
- Upper Valley Trails Alliance — 3% of income from government
- Cover Home Repair Inc — 3% of income from government
- St John's College — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.