· Private foundation
Schuster 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IBMA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UPLIFT NORTHWEST | $6,717 |
| SONGWRITINGWITHSOLDIERS | $5,000 |
| WHIDBEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST | $3,000 |
| WHIDBEY HOMELESS COALITION | $3,000 |
| MERCY FOR ANIMALS | $2,625 |
| ISLAND ROOTS HOUSING | $2,500 |
| DESTINATION CLEVELAND COUNTY INC | $2,500 |
| ISLAND SENIOR RESOURCES | $2,500 |
| WHIDBEY ISLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| LITTLE BIG FEST | $2,250 |
| THE HUB YOUTH CENTRAL | $2,000 |
| BALLYDIDEAN FARM SANCTURY | $2,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
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, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE6× · 2018–2023 · $43k · revenue +80%
- UNUPLIFT NORTHWEST8× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +66%
- TITHE IBMA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- WCWATCHOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%- SJSeattle JazzEDone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -5%
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 mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.
Seattle Good Business Network connects and inspires people to buy, produce, and invest locally, so that everyone has a meaningful stake in the local economy.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Advocate for tax policy in Washington State
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving the places that matter in Washington State and to promoting sustainable and economically viable communities through historic preservation.
To strengthen hunger relief providers in WA State.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the most unlike its peers is South Whidbey Homeless Coalition. 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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 52 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 ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds THE IBMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VEGAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY ISLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SONGWRITINGWITHINC ↗
- Who funds HUB - YOUTH CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds Ballydidean Farm Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BIG FEST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR JEWISH FOOD ETHICS ↗
- Who funds ELPHIES ANIMAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WHIDBEY HOMELESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Destination Cleveland County ↗
- Who funds ISLAND ROOTS HOUSING ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ReString Appalachia ↗
- Who funds Seattle JazzED ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY ISLAND MUSIC PORTAL ↗
- Who funds HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds FAUNALYTICS ↗
- Who funds Nutritionfactsorg Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Roots Housing Foundation ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Goosefoot Community Fund · Whidbey Community Foundation · The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Schuster 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.
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.