· Private foundation
Schultz Family Private Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $696k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCH | $121,750 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $78,408 |
| NORTH CHICAGO COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $75,523 |
| MADONNA MISSION | $60,000 |
| BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS | $60,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS | $50,000 |
| BETHANIA KIDS | $50,000 |
| WAUKEGEN COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| JOSSELYN CENTER | $50,000 |
| COOL MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES | $50,000 |
| MIDWEST VETERANS CLOSET | $28,000 |
| LUTHERAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAN CHICAGO SYNOD ELCA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $431k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
THE NIGHT MINISTRY9× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +11%- BTBy The Hand Club For Kids9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +54%
- NCNorth Chicago Community Partners5× · 2021–2025 · $126k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- JJJDRF JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $20k
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +106%- ARANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $12k
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.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.loyola university health system is a member of trinity health.
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Salvadores Sin Fronteras. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 127 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
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 THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds North Chicago Community Partners ↗
- Who funds Madonna Mission ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds COOL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds BRAVO WAUKEGAN ↗
- Who funds THE BETHANIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Impacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Waukegan To College NFP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE LAMBS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Schultz Family Private 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.