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Schultz Family Private Foundation at a glance

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Schultz Family Private Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$828k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$122k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$894kHuman Services$599kEducation$416kHealth$337kYouth Development$156kArts & Culture$124kHousing & Shelter$76kInternational$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $696k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCH$121,750
THE NIGHT MINISTRY$78,408
NORTH CHICAGO COMMUNITY PARTNERS$75,523
BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS$60,000
MADONNA MISSION$60,000
BETHANIA KIDS$50,000
COOL MINISTRIES$50,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS$50,000
WAUKEGEN COLLEGE$50,000
JOSSELYN CENTER$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $1k → 20%LUTHERAN VOLUNTEER CORPS: $3k → 14%BETHESDA LUTHERAN COMMUNITIES: $1k → 8%MADONNA MISSION: $60k → 14%MADONNA MISSION: $20k → 14%COOL MINISTRIES: $50k → 8%COOL MINISTRIES: $15k → 8%COOL MINISTRIES: $11k → 8%COOL MINISTRIES: $10k → 8%COOL MINISTRIES: $3k → 8%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $10k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $10k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $78k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $30k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $20k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $13k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $10k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $10k → 14%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%MADONNA MISSION: $20k → 14%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%MADONNA MISSION: $10k → 14%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%MADONNA MISSION: $10k → 14%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%BETHEL NEW LIFE: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
SD
IA
IN
NJ
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 65 repeat orgs$395k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
49

Total granted

$2.4M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+6%

Still filing today

63%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • THE NIGHT MINISTRY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +11%
  • BT
    By The Hand Club For Kids
    9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +54%
  • NC
    North Chicago Community Partners
    5× · 2021–2025 · $126k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • JJ
    JDRF JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +106%
  • AR
    ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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2
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

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…

Health
3
University of Chicago Medical Center

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…

Health
4
Loyola University Medical Center

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…

Health
5
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
6
Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center

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…

Health
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
9
Loyola University Health System

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.

Health
10
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
11
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
12
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
48/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCH: $825,570 · OtherST JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCHBy The Hand Club For Kids: $154,500 · OtherBy The Hand Club For KidsLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $101,000 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOISLUTHERAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AT CHICAGO: $79,500 · Other+77 more: $616,075 · Other+77 moreTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $190,908 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTR…Madonna Mission: $120,300 · Human ServicesMadonna MissionCOOL MINISTRIES: $89,093 · Human ServicesCOOL MINISTRIES+7 more: $32,550 · Human Services+7 moreNorth Chicago Community Partners: $125,523 · EducationCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $50,000 · EducationWaukegan To College NFP: $25,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $7,600 · Education+3 more: $13,000 · EducationTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $80,000 · HealthPADS Lake County Inc: $39,500 · HealthChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $21,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $15,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Health+6 more: $20,375 · HealthBRAVO WAUKEGAN: $55,650 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $24,500 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra: $15,000 · Arts & CultureELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $5,900 · Arts & CultureTHE BETHANIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · International+3 more: $3,170 · InternationalImpacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet: $28,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $200 · Public Benefit
Other$1,776,645Human Services$432,851Education$221,123Health$216,375Arts & Culture$104,550International$53,170Public Benefit$28,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $190,908 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $154,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners: $125,523 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMadonna Mission: $120,300 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $101,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOOL MINISTRIES: $89,093 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $80,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBRAVO WAUKEGAN: $55,650 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetTHE BETHANIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $43,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $41,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPADS Lake County Inc: $39,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $28,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $27,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWaukegan To College NFP: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $24,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $21,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $21,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $15,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAMBS FARM INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation: $14,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $7,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWellness House: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRenown Health Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF FREE & CHARITABLE CLINICS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN VOLUNTEER CORPS: $3,300 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAREER RESOURCE CENTER INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMAIN STREET PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds THE LAMBS FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…John and Kathleen Sch…Baxter International …Circle of Service Fou…Karen R & John T Crot…Northwestern Memorial…Garrett Family Founda…The Gorter Family Fou…Butler Family Foundat…The Lake County Commu…First Bank Chicago Fo…
AbbVie FoundationIL27× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Schultz Family Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schultz Family Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 127 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home