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Schultz Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Public Benefit$508kRecreation & Sports$30kReligion$7kEnvironment$1kHealth$610Arts & Culture$480Housing & Shelter$335Animals$255Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$230,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$265k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF AVOCA$230,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $125 → 10%BOYS TOWN USA: $50 → 12%ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION: $40 → 9%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $100 → 14%MD ANDERSON CANCER INST FDN: $100 → 16%NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION: $25 → 16%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOC: $75 → 14%SPIRIT LAKE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION: $30 → 7%SHELBY COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $60 → 9%FRIENDS OF IA PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $60 → 10%POTTAWATTAMIE CONSERVATION FOUNDATI: $100 → 12%FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY FOUNDATION: $115 → 8%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $40 → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $60 → 7%ST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL: $50 → 15%ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $100 → 10%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $50 → 14%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $50 → 14%SPIRIT LAKE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $30 → 7%SHELBY COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50 → 9%FRIENDS IOWA PUBLIC BROADCAST FOUND: $60 → 10%POTTAWATTAMIE CONSERVATION FOUNDATI: $100 → 12%FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY FOUNDATION: $110 → 8%ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITA: $50 → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $60 → 7%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $25 → 15%ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $100 → 10%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $50 → 14%SPIRIT LAKE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION: $30 → 7%SHELBY COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50 → 9%FRIENDS IOWA PUBLIC BROADCAST FOUND: $60 → 10%POTTAWATTAMIE CONSERVATION FOUNDTN: $100 → 12%FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY FOUNDATION: $110 → 8%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50 → 7%CITY OF AVOCA: $230k → 12%CITY OF AVOCA: $216k → 12%CITY OF AVOCA: $32k → 12%CITY OF AVOCA: $30k → 12%UNITED CHURCH OF AVOCA IOWA: $3k → 12%UNITED CHURCH OF AVOCA: $2k → 12%UNITED CHURCH OF AVOCA IOWA: $2k → 12%NEWTOWN-AVOCA HISTORICAL SOCIE: $100 → 12%EAST POTTAWATTAMIE SOIL WATER CONSE: $250 → 12%NEWTOWN-AVOCA HISTORICAL SOCIE: $100 → 12%E POTTAWATTAMIE SOIL WATER CONSRV: $100 → 12%AVOCA NEWTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100 → 12%EAST POTTAWATTAMIE SOIL WATER CONSE: $100 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MT
SD
IA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
KS
TN
SC
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$515k · 12 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$515k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+34%

Still filing today

42%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthReligionPhilanthropyAnimalsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $325 · revenue +33%
  • PC
    POTTAWATTAMIE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $300 · revenue +48%
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $200 · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CE
    COMPETITIVE EDGE INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -88%
  • UC
    UNITED CHURCH OF AVOCA
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • MD
    M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $100

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Wild Landscapes Inc

Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…

Animals
4
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
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Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

7
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
8
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
9
Florida Conservation Group Inc

Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…

Environment
10
The Peregrine Fund Inc

To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.

11
Northern Jaguar Project

The mission of the northern jaguar project is to preserve and recover the world's northermost population of the jaguar, its unique natural habitat, and native wildlife under its protection as a flagship, keystone, and umbrella species.

Animals
12
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Parks Conservation Association and the most unlike its peers is Competitive Edge International 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF AVOCA — $508,000 · OtherCITY OF AVOCA+19 more — $9,065 · OtherCOMPETITIVE EDGE INTERNATIONAL INC — $30,000 · ReligionNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $325 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $75 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $50 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc — $40 · EnvironmentSHELBY COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $160 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $50 · HealthPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $200 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $40 · AnimalsWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $25 · Human Services
Other$517,065Religion$30,000Environment$490Health$210Philanthropy$200Animals$40Human Services$25

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMPETITIVE EDGE INTERNATIONAL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOTTAWATTAMIE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $170 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBY COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPIRIT LAKE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $90 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 COMPETITIVE EDGE INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds POTTAWATTAMIE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds SHELBY COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SPIRIT LAKE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Schultz 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Schultz Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Schultz Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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