· Private foundation
Schumann Robert F Fdn-Main
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $884k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $598k
- $250k+3 grants · $950k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $300,000 |
| ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER | $250,000 |
| E C SCRANTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $125,000 |
| GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| SHORERIVERS INC | $80,000 |
| FOUNDATION SUNY AT BINGHAMTON | $75,000 |
| SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER | $65,000 |
| HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION | $53,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $50,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION | $47,676 |
| NOURISHED INC | $45,000 |
| ASSATEAGUE COASTAL TRUST INC | $40,000 |
| RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
85 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 33 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $627k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +55%
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC5× · 2018–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +48%- ESEC SCRANTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $212k
- CUCORNELL UNIVERSITY HABITAT CONSERVATIONone grant, 2020 · $130k
- BBBIRD BANDING STATION AND CLASSROOMone grant, 2018 · $75k
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.
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.
The new jersey audubon society is a privately supported, not-for-profit, statewide membership organization. (see schedule o for details).
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.
Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…
The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
How this is measured
157 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. 157 of the 210 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EC SCRANTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ROBERSON MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds ECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Upstream Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds Birds Georgia Corporation ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · National Audubon Society Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Fordi Family Foundation Inc · Sarah Decoizart Perpetual Charitable Tr · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Joseph Robert Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Schumann Robert F Fdn-Main funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schumann Robert F Fdn-Main. Bigger dots raise more.
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc: 100% of income from government
- Friends of the Underline Inc: 66% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc: 40% of income from government
- Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
- Nature Forward: 32% of income from government
- Kent Cultural Alliance Inc: 27% of income from government
- Spoke Art Inc (Fka Medicine Wheel Productions Inc): 22% of income from government
- Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
- Alliance Inc: 20% of income from government
- Arundel Rivers Federation Inc: 19% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut: 14% of income from government
- Compass Youth Collaborative: 13% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc: 13% of income from government
- Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc: 12% of income from government
- Main Street Historic Chestertown Inc: 10% of income from government
- New Haven Ecology Project Inc: 9% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Alachua Conservation Trust Inc: 5% of income from government
- Great Hollow Management Inc: 5% of income from government
- Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc: 4% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc: 3% of income from government
- Liberty Hall Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Knox Inc: 2% of income from government
- Speak for the Trees Inc: 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj: 1% of income from government
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc: 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- American Littoral Society: 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Washington College: 0% of income from government
- East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc: 0% of income from government
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