Illinois · Private foundation
Schultz Family Private Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $828k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $121,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Schultz Family Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $828k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $418k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $343k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $210k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $211k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $434k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $140k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $127k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St James Lutheran Church | $825,570 | 9 | n/a |
| The Night Ministry | $190,908 | 9 | 1% |
| By The Hand Club For Kids | $154,500 | 9 | 0% |
| North Chicago Community Partners | $125,523 | 5 | 2% |
| Madonna Mission | $120,300 | 5 | 6% |
| Lutheran Social Services of Illinois | $101,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cool Ministries | $89,093 | 5 | 3% |
| The Josselyn Center Nfp | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago | $79,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Bravo Waukegan | $55,650 | 7 | 6% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($373k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Schultz Family Private Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Baxter International Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Karen R & John T Crotty Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Garrett Family Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · The Lake County Community Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation
How this is measured
About Schultz Family Private Foundation
- How much does Schultz Family Private Foundation give?
- Schultz Family Private Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $827,881 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Schultz Family Private Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Human Services (21%), Education (15%).
- Who are Schultz Family Private Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St James Lutheran Church ($826k), The Night Ministry ($191k), By The Hand Club For Kids ($155k).
- Does Schultz Family Private Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schultz Family Private Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Schultz Family Private Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy.
- Where is Schultz Family Private Foundation based?
- Schultz Family Private Foundation is based in IL.
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