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Schuman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k33 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $932k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $1,056,873 |
| LA CLIPPERS FOUNDATIONFIREAID | $500,000 |
| TREE PEOPLE | $377,388 |
| SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE | $252,723 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $252,239 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $200,707 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHOAH | $148,584 |
| Individual grant recipient | $102,688 |
| LEO BAECK TEMPLE | $101,959 |
| VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $100,942 |
| THE CARBON UNDERGROUND | $100,300 |
| WAGS & WALKS | $100,289 |
| WAGS & WALKS | $100,268 |
| ADOPT FIRE STATION 71 | $100,000 |
| LAFD FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Schuman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 44 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- VEVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +43%
- WAWags and Walks4× · 2020–2025 · $291k · revenue +161%
- STSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE2× · 2024–2025 · $278k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- UFUCLA FOUNDATION MOBILE STROKE UNITone grant, 2024 · $35k
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue +11%- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +12%
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way and the most unlike its peers is Redland Rock Pit Abandoned Dogs Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 131 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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wags and Walks ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KARATE FOUNDATION INC SANTA MONICA DOJO ↗
- Who funds THE CARBON UNDERGROUND ↗
- Who funds ADOPT FIRE STATION 71 ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS 4 YOU RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds REDLAND ROCK PIT ABANDONED DOGS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ECOFLIX FOUNDATION INC FKA CAMBODIAN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Barrel Bag ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · The Intuit Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Schuman Family 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
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gulliver Preparatory School Inc — 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.
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