· Private foundation
Schwabero 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $160,000 |
| ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $13,288 |
| THE OBAMA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $1,500 |
| WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES | $1,100 |
| MIDWEST MISSION DISTRIBUTION CENTER | $1,000 |
| HESED HOUSE | $750 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $350 |
| GLORIA DEI LUTHERAN CHURCH | $250 |
| RITENOUR PRIDE & PROMISE FOUNDATION | $250 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D TYPE 1 DIABETES | $200 |
| GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $150 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100 |
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 (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% 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 +70% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $235k · revenue +23%
Mercy Ships International4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +115%- PAPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TTTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +317%
- NBNEW BREMEN HISTORIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- DCDUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +68%
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 npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Diabetes action research and education foundation is committed to the prevention and treatment of diabetes and to the funding of innovative, promising research aimed at finding a cure for diabetes and diabetes-related complications.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
The mission of arc of wabash county, inc. is to challenge, empower, and support individuals with disabilities to reach their highest level of independence. arc of wabash is dedicated to: 1) preserve, protect, and promote the dignity of…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
To support the activities of junior achievement of northern indiana, inc.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Friends Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Bremen Historic Association. 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
31 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. 31 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 NEW BREMEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST MISSION DISTRIBUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PURPLE INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN DUPAGE SRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NAPERVILLE GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds RITENOUR PRIDE & PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Bremen Historic Association ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL 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: The Dupage Community Foundation · Naperville Rotary Charities Inc · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Schwabero 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.
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.