· Private foundation
Schulz Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k11 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $174k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BOZENA AND JOSEF ZELENDA CHARIT | $1,808,330 |
| THE BOZENA AND JOSEF ZELENDA CHARIT | $173,669 |
| HAND IN HAND | $12,500 |
| UNLIMITED POTENTIAL | $7,500 |
| VETERANS ON DECK | $7,500 |
| SPECIAL NEEDS SOLUTIONS | $5,000 |
| ACCEL | $5,000 |
| RIM COUNTRY LITERACY PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $5,000 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| NEW PATHWAYS FOR YOUTH | $3,000 |
| JUSTA CENTER | $1,000 |
| FOOTHILLS CARING CORPS | $1,000 |
| SHELTER BOX | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% 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.
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 +68% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- HIHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA4× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +68%
- UPUNLIMITED POTENTIAL INC3× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +646%
- YOYOUTH ON THEIR OWN4× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- ICINTERMOUNTAIN CENTERS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +100%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -9%
- OAOPEN ARMSone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Advocates for the rights and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. together with our network of members and affiliated chapters, we improve systems of support, connect families, inspire communication,…
DRAZ is a non-profit law firm that assists Arizonans with disabilities to promote and protect their legal rights to independence, justice, and equality.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
Jewish family & children's services of southern arizona helps all people meet their full potential by providing expert community and behavioral health services.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
Improving our community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare.
Operation of assisted living facilities
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
Mission Advocated disability voice, choice, and independenceVision Universal access and justice
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Special Needs Solutions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 26 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 HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds UNLIMITED POTENTIAL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds DEFENDERS OF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL NEEDS SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Waste Not Inc ↗
- Who funds ACCEL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds Foothills Caring Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN CENTERS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
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: The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Valley of the Sun United Way · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Schulz Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Schulz Charitable Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Schulz Charitable Foundation Inc 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.