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Schumacher Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$811k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$235k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$913kAnimals$655kArts & Culture$537kHealth$500kReligion$147kPhilanthropy$65kRecreation & Sports$65kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $635k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBUS ZOO AND AQUARIUM$235,000
NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$200,000
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBRARAY$200,000
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$35,000
COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ANNUAL FUND$35,000
SCHUMACHER GALLERY AT CAPITAL UNIVERSITY$25,000
SENATOR THOMSEN HAUS BURG AUF FEHMARN$20,000
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION REED AVE CENTER$20,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF COLUMBUS - THE KELTON HOUSE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SCHUMACHER DAY MINOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$10,000
DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD ONTARIO NORTH$8,094
SCHUMACHER PUBLIC SCHOOL$2,500
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.

US giving: 88% of grant dollars ($2.8M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($376k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBRARAY: $200k → 16%COLUMBUS ZOO AND AQUARIUM: $235k → 5%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $200k → 15%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBARY: $80k → 16%COLUMBUS ZOO AND AQUARIUM: $135k → 5%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 15%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBRARAY: $80k → 16%COLUMBUS ZOO AND AQUARIUM: $135k → 5%COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $60k → 15%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBARY: $40k → 16%COLUMBUS ZOO AND AQUARIUM: $35k → 5%COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 15%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBARY: $40k → 16%COLUMBUS ZOO AND AQUARIUM: $35k → 5%COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 15%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBARY: $40k → 16%COLUMBUS ZOO AND AQUARIUM: $30k → 5%COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $45k → 15%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBARY: $40k → 16%COLUMBUS ZOO AND AQUARIUM: $30k → 5%COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $36k → 15%COLUMBUS ZOO AND AQUARIUM: $20k → 5%COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ANNUAL FUND: $35k → 15%COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ANNUAL FUND: $35k → 15%FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $35k → 15%COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $35k → 15%FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $18k → 15%FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $18k → 15%FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $18k → 15%FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $18k → 15%FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $18k → 15%COLUMBUS FOUNDATION REED AVE CENTER: $20k → 15%COLUMBUS FOUNDATION REED AVE CENTER: $20k → 15%SCHUMACHER GALLERY: $25k → 15%SCHUMACHER GALLERY AT CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $25k → 15%SCHUMACHER GALLERY: $25k → 15%SCHUMACHER GALLERY: $25k → 15%SCHUMACHER GALLERY AT CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $25k → 15%SCHUMACHER GALLERY: $15k → 15%SCHUMACHER GALLERY: $15k → 15%SCHUMACHER GALLERY: $15k → 15%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 15%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 15%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 15%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 15%THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%GREEN LAWN CEMETARY: $29k → 15%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.

Beyond the US: 12% of all-years giving ($376k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$237k · 29 grants
Germany$139k · 7 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Schumacher Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 63%.

Schumacher Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 20 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
3

Total granted

$3.0M
$65k

Still filing today

15%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NC
    NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $700k
  • CZ
    COLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $655k · revenue +13%
  • BU
    BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBRARAY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $280k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • SS
    SACHA - SCHUMACHER MINOR DAY HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
05the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $700,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBRARAY: $280,000 · OtherBAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBRARAYBAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBARY: $240,000 · OtherBAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBARYFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $146,550 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSCHUMACHER DAY MINOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $73,631 · Other+15 more: $561,094 · Other+15 moreCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION: $655,000 · AnimalsCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PAR…COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $276,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS …COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $65,000 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR LEAGUE OF COLUMBUS INC: $50,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,121,275Animals$655,000Arts & Culture$276,000Philanthropy$65,000Community Improvement$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION: $655,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $276,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF COLUMBUS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 2.8% 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 COLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF COLUMBUS INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Schumacher Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Schumacher 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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