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Schuler Education Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$53MPhilanthropy$11MArts & Culture$55kReligion$45kHuman Services$37kAnimals$27kHealth$24kInternational$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,246,436
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,246,436
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $2k → 18%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $1k → 18%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%CENTER OF HALSTED: $3k → 14%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION NFP: $2k → 8%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS INC: $2k → 8%MOTHER'S TRUST FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%MOTHER'S TRUST FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%LAKE FOREST LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZEN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%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

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
MA
OR
SD
CA
UT
CO
MD
TN
DC
LA
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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10.0M · 30 repeat orgs$54M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
37

Total granted

$10.0M
$54M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHealthOther
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

  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    2× · 2018–2021 · $2.5M · revenue +47%
  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2021 · $352k · revenue +26%
  • MY
    Midwest Young Artists
    3× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • SI
    SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $43M · revenue -102% · 100% of their budget
  • MA
    MICHAEL AND PAMELA GORDON FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $11M · revenue -100%
  • Williams Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +36%
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
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
5
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
6
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
Manhattanville University

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

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Michael and Pamela Gordon Family 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

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 69 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
37/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST: $42,606,406 · PhilanthropySCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUSTMICHAEL AND PAMELA GORDON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,554,500 · PhilanthropyMICHAEL AND PAMELA GORDON FAMILY FOUNDATION+2 more: $6,500 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $4,643,316 · OtherIndividual g…Individual grant recipient: $2,326,353 · OtherIndividual g…+36 more: $166,080 · OtherPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $2,450,660 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGE: $352,000 · EducationWilliams College: $250,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $250,000 · EducationWellesley College: $250,000 · Education+5 more: $18,500 · EducationMidwest Young Artists: $39,500 · Arts & CultureMOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesCenter on Halsted: $2,500 · Human ServicesEquestrian Connection NFP: $2,000 · Human ServicesMothers Trust Foundation: $2,000 · Human ServicesFILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $1,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $8,000 · AnimalsHOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGO: $3,000 · AnimalsILLINOIS RAPTOR CENTER: $2,000 · AnimalsEAGLE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,000 · AnimalsCHINTIMINI WILDLIFE CENTER: $1,000 · AnimalsCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $7,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,640 · Health
Philanthropy$53,167,406Other$7,135,749Education$3,571,160Arts & Culture$41,500Human Services$32,000Animals$20,500Health$13,140

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 budgetSCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST: $42,606,406 over 1y, 100% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $2,450,660 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $352,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMidwest Young Artists: $39,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKNOX COLLEGE: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,640 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAMBS FARM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEquestrian Connection NFP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSICK TOWN DERBY DAMES: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetILLINOIS RAPTOR CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCHINTIMINI WILDLIFE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $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.

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.

Trustmark FoundationAbbVie FoundationThe Buchanan Family F…Helen V Brach Foundat…The Chicago Community…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…
Trustmark FoundationIL17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustmark Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Buchanan Family Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Community Outreach Inc: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Schuler Education Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 69 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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