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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
99
Grants FY2024
62
Organizations funded FY2023
21%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 93
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$21M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Schuler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $569k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving71$1.7M80%
FY202362$1.4M21%
FY202272$1.9M71%
FY20211$15100%
FY201993$1.3Mn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.5MAnimals$1.1MEducation$1.0MHuman Services$701kFood & Nutrition$394kRecreation & Sports$265kPhilanthropy$248kYouth Development$208kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seattle Nativity School$402,00029%
The Humane Society for Seattleking County$253,00022%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Hawaii$185,00023%
Helpline House$175,00013%
Special Olympics Hawaii Inc$150,00022%
Hopelink$136,00040%
American Cancer Society Inc$125,00010%
Northwest Harvest Emm$115,00030%
Best Friends Animal Society$111,00040%
Food Lifeline$107,50030%
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All grantees of Schuler Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seattle Nativity School$402,00029%
The Humane Society for Seattleking County$253,00022%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Hawaii$185,00023%
Helpline House$175,00013%
Special Olympics Hawaii Inc$150,00022%
Hopelink$136,00040%
American Cancer Society Inc$125,00010%
Northwest Harvest Emm$115,00030%
Best Friends Animal Society$111,00040%
Food Lifeline$107,50030%
Seattles Union Gospel Mission$107,5004n/a
Swedish Medical Center Foundation$107,00010%
Dynamic Community Solutions$101,00023%
Pasado's Safe Haven$100,00031%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$100,00020%
Hawaii Foodbank Inc$95,00040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$80,00020%
Farestart$55,00020%
Coalition to Salute America's Heroes Foundation$55,00030%
Ms Impossible$52,000125%
Candlelighters For Children With Cancer$50,00024%
Uc San Diego Foundation$50,00020%
Lawakua Charitable Fund$50,00019%
Greenhill Humane Society Spca$50,00031%
Paws for Purple Hearts$45,00030%
Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington$40,00020%
Global Down Syndrome Foundation$40,00022%
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum$38,50030%
Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc$36,00020%
Hawaiian Humane Society$35,00010%
Seattle Police Foundation$30,00031%
Maris Place$25,00014%
Vision House$25,00010%
One More Wave Surf Corp$25,00013%
Evergreenhealth Foundation$25,00030%
Cancer Pathways$25,00013%
Treehouse$25,00010%
Tunica Humane Society$22,50022%
Domestic Abuse Women's Network$20,00020%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc$20,00020%
Lupus Research Alliance Inc$20,00010%
Hospice of Hilo$20,00020%
Honolulu Asymca$20,0002n/a
Overlake Hospital Foundation$15,00010%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Hawaii$15,00020%
Youth Eastside Services$15,00010%
Kauai Humane Society Inc$15,00020%
Boy Scouts of America -- Aloha Council$15,000216%
Dwankhozi Hope$12,0001n/a
Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center$10,00010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$10,00010%
Assets School$10,00010%
Disabled Veterans National Foundation$10,00010%
March of Dimes Inc$10,00020%
National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii Inc$10,00010%
Permission to Start Dreaming Foundation$10,00011%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$7,50020%
Sunny Skys Animal Rescue and Hospital$7,50012%
Mossyrock Garden Club$7,5001n/a
Wishing Well Foundation$7,50013%
Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation$7,00031%
Adult Friends for Youth$5,00011%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$5,00010%
Ewa Beach Lions Club Foundation$5,0001n/a
Girl Scouts of Hawaii$5,00010%
Paralyzed Veterans of America$5,00010%
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington$5,00010%
Parents and Children Together$5,00010%
Peeps Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Hawaii Homeownership Center$4,00010%
Humane Society for Tacoma Pierce County Society Prevention Cruelty Animals$2,00010%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$1,50010%
Last Chance for Animals$1,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$1,00010%
Aloha Harvest$1,00010%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$1,00010%
Assistance League of Seattle$1,00010%
The Skatepark Project$1,00010%
Hawaii Spca$1,0001n/a
Hawaii First Robotics$1,00011%
Trevor Project Inc$1,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,00010%
Palos Verdes Peninsula Education Foundation$1,00010%
Community Helping Schools$1,0001n/a
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc$1,0001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$1,00010%
Champions Retreat$1,00011%
Jubilee REACH$1,00010%
ARRF Animal Rescue$1,00011%
Old Dog Haven$1,00010%
Aim High St Louis$1,00010%
Craig Hospital Foundation$1,00010%
Snarling Wolf Inc$1,0001n/a
Kat Charities$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 120 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Schuler Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeattle Nativity School: $402,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetThe Humane Society for Seattleking County: $253,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Hawaii: $185,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHelpline House: $175,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSpecial Olympics Hawaii Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHopelink: $136,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Harvest Emm: $115,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $111,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFood Lifeline: $107,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSwedish Medical Center Foundation: $107,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDynamic Community Solutions: $101,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPasado's Safe Haven: $100,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Foodbank Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFarestart: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCoalition to Salute America's Heroes Foundation: $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMs Impossible: $52,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCandlelighters For Children With Cancer: $50,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLawakua Charitable Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetGreenhill Humane Society Spca: $50,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEvergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Down Syndrome Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPearl Harbor Aviation Museum: $38,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc: $36,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHawaiian Humane Society: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSeattle Police Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMaris Place: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetVision House: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOne More Wave Surf Corp: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetEvergreenhealth Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCancer Pathways: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTreehouse: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTunica Humane Society: $22,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDomestic Abuse Women's Network: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLupus Research Alliance Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of Hilo: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOverlake Hospital Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Hawaii: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Eastside Services: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKauai Humane Society Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBoy Scouts of America -- Aloha Council: $15,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetLittle Bit Therapeutic Riding Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 84.

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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.

J Watumull FundHI32× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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--

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.

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About Schuler Family Foundation

How much does Schuler Family Foundation give?
Schuler Family Foundation reported 99 grants totaling $1,683,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 93 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Schuler Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (12%), Animals (8%), Education (8%).
Who are Schuler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Seattle Nativity School ($402k), The Humane Society for Seattleking County ($253k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Hawaii ($185k).
Does Schuler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Schuler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Schuler Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J Watumull Fund, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Central Pacific Bank Foundation.
Where is Schuler Family Foundation based?
Schuler Family Foundation is based in WA.

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 217 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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