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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.

$4.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
106
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.0MEnvironment$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$819kAnimals$717kReligion$443kPhilanthropy$354kHealth$193kInternational$176kOther$0
02FY2025 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $157k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $932k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
$10,191
Median grant
17
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LAFD FOUNDATION$100,000
ADOPT FIRE STATION 71$100,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $15k → 11%LUMINA ALLIANCE: $10k → 12%ST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 12%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $100 → 9%LUMINA ALLIANCE: $5k → 12%VISTA DEL MAR: $20k → 14%LUMINA ALLIANCE: $5k → 12%VISTA DEL MAR: $20k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $6k → 14%CASA DE AMPARO: $5k → 11%CASA AMPARO: $5k → 11%PROVIDENCE TRINITYCARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%CAMP KESEM: $5k → 14%SOUTH CENTRAL LOS ANGELES MINISTRY PROJECT: $10k → 14%HOPE IN A SUITCASE: $10k → 14%HOPE IN A SUITCASE: $2k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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

WA
MT
WI
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
NC
DC
HI
AL
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.
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 13% of Schuman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 76%.

Schuman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.1% 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 35 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
48

Total granted

$3.0M
$306k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

83%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • VE
    VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +43%
  • WA
    Wags and Walks
    4× · 2020–2025 · $291k · revenue +161%
  • ST
    SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $278k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • UF
    UCLA FOUNDATION MOBILE STROKE UNIT
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue +11%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +12%
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
4
Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services
5
World Animal Protection

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…

Animals
6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
American Humane Association

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…

Animals
8
The Humane League

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…

Animals
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International
11
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
12
United Animal Nations Dba Redrover

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way; 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.
05the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/91
Grantees still filing
32/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION: $2,967,379 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $436,349 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAGULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $141,818 · Education+2 more: $155,297 · EducationLA CLIPPERS FOUNDATIONFIREAID: $500,000 · OtherLA CLIPPERS FOUNDATIONFIREAIDJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $357,851 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS…VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $300,261 · OtherVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONLEO BAECK TEMPLE: $229,471 · OtherLEO BAECK TEMPLEIndividual grant recipient: $153,234 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHOAH: $151,219 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNI…ADOPT FIRE STATION 71: $100,000 · Other+66 more: $677,758 · Other+66 moreTREEPEOPLE INC: $579,224 · EnvironmentTREEPEOPLE INCSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $278,166 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWO…THE CARBON UNDERGROUND: $100,300 · EnvironmentTHE CARBON UND…HEAL THE BAY: $50,750 · Environment+8 more: $67,397 · Environment+8 moreWags and Walks: $290,995 · AnimalsWags and …CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC: $80,000 · AnimalsCENTER FO…PAWS 4 YOU RESCUE INC: $76,516 · AnimalsPAWS 4 YO…REDLAND ROCK PIT ABANDONED DOGS PROJECT INC: $61,089 · AnimalsREDLAND R…CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $33,180 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $30,000 · AnimalsECOFLIX FOUNDATION INC FKA CAMBODIAN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $25,687 · AnimalsTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $25,002 · Animals+8 more: $114,462 · Animals+8 moreVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $46,426 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $34,998 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $25,000 · Human ServicesLUMINA ALLIANCE: $20,600 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $15,124 · Human ServicesHOPE IN A SUITCASE: $11,925 · Human ServicesCasa De Amparo: $10,300 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,299 · Human ServicesSouth Central Los Angeles Ministry Project Inc: $10,010 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE TRINITYCARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,742 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $130,360 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $20,240 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $15,593 · International+6 more: $7,144 · InternationalLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSHERWOOD FORESTRY SERVICE: $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$3,700,843Other$2,469,794Environment$1,075,837Animals$736,931Human Services$210,424International$173,337Public Safety & Disaster$130,000

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $2,967,379 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $579,224 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $436,349 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $300,261 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWags and Walks: $290,995 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $278,166 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $141,818 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $130,360 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY KARATE FOUNDATION INC SANTA MONICA DOJO: $101,442 over 2y, 59% of budgetTHE CARBON UNDERGROUND: $100,300 over 1y, 22% of budgetADOPT FIRE STATION 71: $100,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPAWS 4 YOU RESCUE INC: $76,516 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetREDLAND ROCK PIT ABANDONED DOGS PROJECT INC: $61,089 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $53,855 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $51,408 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $50,750 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $46,426 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $34,998 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $33,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $25,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $23,376 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBarrel Bag: $20,824 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLUMINA ALLIANCE: $20,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $20,383 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $20,240 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $15,593 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $15,352 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $15,124 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $13,205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $12,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE IN A SUITCASE: $11,925 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $10,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $10,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $10,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $10,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,299 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $10,191 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $10,122 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $10,107 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Central Los Angeles Ministry Project Inc: $10,010 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Jewish Community Foun…California Community …Silicon Valley Commun…The Annenberg Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Miami Foundation …ImpactassetsincThe Intuit FoundationSempra FoundationConrad N Hilton Found…Maine Community Found…National Philanthropi…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA17.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Schuman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schuman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Schuman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Schuman Family 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 131 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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home