· Private foundation
Schuler Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k62 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $490k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FDN OF HAWAII | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $125,000 |
| HELPLINE HOUSE | $125,000 |
| SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII | $50,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII | $50,000 |
| MS I'MPOSSIBLE | $50,000 |
| VALOR CHRISTIAN HIGH SCOOL | $50,000 |
| LAWAKUA CHRITABLE FUND | $50,000 |
| HELPLINE HOUSE | $50,000 |
| DYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS | $50,000 |
| SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KAILUA | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $389k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $942k 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
- SNSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $402k · revenue +12%
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY2× · 2022–2024 · $253k · revenue +42%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII2× · 2023–2024 · $185k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SNSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL (PLEDGE PAYMENT 2 OF 5)one grant, 2022 · $200k
- HSHumane Society - Seattle (Tuxes & Tails) - 2018 Fund a Need - (3 of 3) COMPLETEDone grant, 2019 · $100k
- HSHumane Society - Seattle (Tuxes & Tails) - 2018 Fund a Need - (2 of 3) bal $100,000 NEWone grant, 2019 · $75k
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Healthpoint strengthens communities and improves people's health by delivering quality services, breaking down barriers and providing access to all.
Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
The mission of the organization is to strengthen youth and families through high quality prevention, support, and transition services.
To promote the quality of life for persons facing life-limiting illnesses and for their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Hawaii and the most unlike its peers is Middle East Media and Research Institute 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 224 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MS IMPOSSIBLE ↗
- Who funds Candlelighters For Children With Cancer ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND ↗
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: J Watumull Fund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · United Way of King County · Glassybaby White Light Fund · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · McInerny Foundation--
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 Schuler 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greenhill Humane Society Spca — 1% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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.