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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.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$113kRecreation & Sports$96kHealth$72kHuman Services$63kArts & Culture$55kEducation$43kAnimals$38kPhilanthropy$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$1,300
Median grant
12
States reached
$889k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM$3,000
THE UPPER VALLEY HAVEN$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
TERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
HIGH HORSES CENTER FOR EQUINE$2,500
MAMA'S KITCHEN$2,000
LAND FOR GOOD$2,000
KEVIN BABBINGTON FOUNDATION$2,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR$1,300
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $833 → 14%WISE: $1k → 10%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 10%WISE: $1k → 10%WISE: $800 → 10%WISE: $750 → 10%WISE: $750 → 10%WISE: $750 → 10%WISE: $500 → 10%WISE: $500 → 10%WISE: $500 → 10%WILLING HANDS: $1k → 9%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $250 → 10%WILLING HANDS: $750 → 9%WILLING HANDS: $500 → 9%WILLING HANDS: $250 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
GA
FL
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.
$494k · 48 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
28

Total granted

$494k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+4%

Still filing today

69%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CG
    CHOKHOR GEPEL LING
    7× · 2017–2023 · $109k · revenue +144% · 52% of their budget
  • W
    WAYPOINT
    5× · 2019–2023 · $24k · revenue +74%
  • MM
    MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $19k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • ST
    SHE TREKS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $21k
  • TC
    THE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • AF
    AFE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +91%
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
Western New England University

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…

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
4
Vermont Public Co

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Northfield Mount Hermon School

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.

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
8
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College

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…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits

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,…

Education
11
Hampshire College Trustees

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…

Education
12
Lehigh University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Beginnings Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 88 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
36/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHE TREKS INC: $20,850 · OtherSHE TREKS INCTHE MONTSHIRE MUSEUM: $17,500 · OtherTHE MONTSHIRE MUSEUMTHE UPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $14,500 · OtherTHE UPPER VALLEY HAVENUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $10,500 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 · OtherCCAE THEATRICALS INC: $12,553 · OtherCCAE THEATRICALS INCSecond Growth Inc: $7,833 · OtherTREVOR PROJECT INC: $12,800 · OtherTREVOR PROJECT INC+54 more: $122,124 · Other+54 moreCHOKHOR GEPEL LING: $108,500 · ReligionCHOKHOR GEPEL LINGInclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration: $83,425 · Recreation & SportsInclusion Matters …FINDING OUR STRIDE: $8,800 · Recreation & SportsFINDING OUR STRIDE+2 more: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsWAYPOINT: $24,025 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) OF THE UPPER VALLEY INC: $6,550 · Human ServicesGOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 · Human ServicesWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $2,500 · Human Services+3 more: $3,383 · Human ServicesST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $16,551 · EducationThe George Washington University: $8,100 · EducationUPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE: $7,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $4,801 · Education+2 more: $750 · EducationLIONS TIGERS AND BEARS: $16,600 · AnimalsAUSSIE RESCUE SAN DIEGO INC: $10,000 · AnimalsTERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $6,375 · AnimalsMONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $19,000 · PhilanthropyHANOVER ROTARY CHARITIES INC: $2,605 · PhilanthropyTHE JEFFIE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyPOSITIVE TRACKS INC: $1,800 · PhilanthropyNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$228,660Religion$108,500Recreation & Sports$95,725Human Services$41,458Education$37,202Animals$32,975Philanthropy$26,905

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHOKHOR GEPEL LING: $108,500 over 7y, 52% of budgetInclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration: $83,425 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetWAYPOINT: $24,025 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLIONS TIGERS AND BEARS: $16,600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $16,551 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $12,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCCAE THEATRICALS INC: $12,553 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAUSSIE RESCUE SAN DIEGO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetFINDING OUR STRIDE: $8,800 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetThe George Washington University: $8,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Growth Inc: $7,833 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY FOSTER KIDS: $7,500 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetUPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE: $7,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) OF THE UPPER VALLEY INC: $6,550 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $6,375 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,855 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHANOVER CONSERVANCY: $5,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAFE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $4,801 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAMA'S KITCHEN: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN STAGE COMPANY: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHANOVER IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY CORPORATION: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE INC: $2,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHANOVER ROTARY CHARITIES INC: $2,605 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEFFIE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOWE LIBRARY CORPORATION: $1,900 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPOSITIVE TRACKS INC: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHeadrest Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVANCE TRANSIT INC: $1,205 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Historical Society: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENFIELD REVIEW LITERARY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIGH HORSES CENTER FOR EQUINE- ASSISTED SERVICES: $834 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $833 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVER HOME REPAIR INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUSHJA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MIGRAINE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP: $250 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charita…The Couch Family Foun…Mascoma Bank Foundati…Hypertherm Hope Found…Emily Landecker Found…The Vermont Community…Lane & Elizabeth C Dw…Barrette Family FundFrank and Brinna Sand…The Stannard & Doroth…Claremont Savings Ban…Granite United Way
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH44.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 88 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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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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