How much does Schuster Foundation give?

Schuster Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $64,342 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Schuster Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Civil Rights (14%), Employment (13%).

Who are Schuster Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Anti-Defamation League ($43k), Uplift Northwest ($42k), The Ibma Foundation Inc ($23k).

Does Schuster Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Schuster Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Schuster Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Goosefoot Community Fund, Whidbey Community Foundation.

Where is Schuster Foundation based?

Schuster Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · 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.

$64k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 26
Grants FY2025: 19
Organizations funded FY2024: 26%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $2,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 15 to 21; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $807k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Schuster Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsSocial ScienceOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	25	$61k	28%
FY2024	19	$41k	26%
FY2023	18	$44k	28%
FY2022	19	$30k	26%
FY2021	15	$27k	0%
FY2020	17	$34k	29%
FY2019	19	$36k	11%
FY2018	21	$35k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$71kCivil Rights$45kEmployment$42kAnimals$38kHealth$30kPhilanthropy$25kEnvironment$20kHuman Services$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Anti-Defamation League	$42,500	6	0%
Uplift Northwest	$41,817	8	0%
The Ibma Foundation Inc	$22,500	3	6%
Vegan Outreach Inc	$19,000	8	0%
Whidbey Camano Land Trust	$15,500	8	0%
Physicians Committee for Responsible Med	$10,000	8	0%
Breakthrough T1d	$10,000	2	0%
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts	$8,500	6	0%
Songwritingwithinc	$7,500	2	0%
Hub - Youth Central	$7,500	3	5%

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All grantees of Schuster Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Anti-Defamation League	$42,500	6	0%
Uplift Northwest	$41,817	8	0%
The Ibma Foundation Inc	$22,500	3	6%
Vegan Outreach Inc	$19,000	8	0%
Whidbey Camano Land Trust	$15,500	8	0%
Physicians Committee for Responsible Med	$10,000	8	0%
Breakthrough T1d	$10,000	2	0%
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts	$8,500	6	0%
Songwritingwithinc	$7,500	2	0%
Hub - Youth Central	$7,500	3	5%
Mercy for Animals Inc	$7,125	4	0%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger	$7,100	5	0%
Ballydidean Farm Sanctuary	$5,750	4	1%
Washington Trails Association	$5,500	8	0%
National Park Foundation	$3,750	7	0%
Little Big Fest	$3,750	2	1%
Center for Jewish Food Ethics	$3,500	5	0%
Elphies Animal Alliance	$3,250	6	23%
South Whidbey Homeless Coalition	$3,000	1	1%
Island Roots Housing	$2,500	1	n/a
American Jewish Committee	$2,500	1	0%
Destination Cleveland County	$2,500	1	0%
Seattle JazzED	$1,500	1	0%
The Humane League	$1,500	2	0%
ReString Appalachia	$1,500	1	1%
Whidbey Island Music Portal	$1,500	1	2%
Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy	$1,400	2	0%
Food Lifeline	$1,100	1	0%
Youthcare	$1,000	1	n/a
Nutritionfactsorg Inc	$1,000	2	0%
Faunalytics	$1,000	2	0%
Community Roots Housing Foundation	$1,000	1	n/a
Targhee Music Foundation	$1,000	1	1%
Earth Law Center	$500	1	0%
Whidbey Island Dance Theatre	$500	2	0%
Westside Baby	$500	1	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of King County	$250	1	0%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	$100	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Schuster Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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.

Seattle FoundationWA20.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Schuster Foundation

How much does Schuster Foundation give?: Schuster Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $64,342 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Schuster Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Civil Rights (14%), Employment (13%).
Who are Schuster Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Anti-Defamation League ($43k), Uplift Northwest ($42k), The Ibma Foundation Inc ($23k).
Does Schuster Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Schuster Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Schuster Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Goosefoot Community Fund, Whidbey Community Foundation.
Where is Schuster Foundation based?: Schuster Foundation is based in WA.