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Schwan Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$78k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Community Improvement$260kEducation$134kHealth$115kRecreation & Sports$42kReligion$22kHuman Services$21kYouth Development$5kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$6,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$757k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL$46,085
ST PETRONILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$13,655
TRINITY HOUSE$10,000
AMBASSADORS FOOTBALL CLUB$6,000
HEALTHNET FOUNDATION$1,000
HUMANE SOCIETY$456
MARCH FOURTH$311
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAMP KESEM: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
WV
SC
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$564k · 14 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
25

Total granted

$564k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
0%

Still filing today

43%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalOther

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

  • TC
    The Community Impact Fund
    2× · 2020–2021 · $260k · revenue +299% · 42% of their budget
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCH
    2× · 2021–2022 · $14k · revenue +470%
  • START EARLY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • LC
    LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • WC
    WBEZ - CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • CY
    Chicago Youth Centers
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
2
American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health
3
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
4
Patient Access Network Foundation

As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…

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5
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
6
The N 1 Collaborative Inc

To make individualized medicines routinely and rapidly accessible to rare disease patients worldwide.

Health
7
National Foundation for Cancer Research

To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.

Health
8
Cog Research Foundation Llc

Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…

Health
9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health
11
The Curetivity Foundation

Provide monetary or financial aid exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes and to solicit, receive, maintain and disburse funds for these purposes and for the betterment of children.

Health
12
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (Us) Ltd

Partner with scientists to accelerate research that will transform the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer through ground breaking science carried out by individual investigators, multidisciplinary teams, and early stage…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%90%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,542

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.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
11/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION — $95,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATIONST PETRONILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL — $71,831 · OtherST PETRONILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOLST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL — $48,585 · OtherST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOLAMBASSADORS FOOTBALL CLUB — $42,000 · OtherAMBASSADORS FOOTBALL CLUBLURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherLURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONTRINITY HOUSE — $20,000 · OtherTRINITY HOUSE+19 more — $31,517 · Other+19 moreThe Community Impact Fund — $260,000 · PhilanthropyThe Community Impact FundFOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCH — $13,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $100 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S HEMIPLEGIA AND STROKE ASSOCIATION — $4,271 · HealthHEALTHNET FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · HealthPROJECT N95 INC — $780 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $600 · Health+2 more — $195 · HealthChicago Youth Centers — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT — $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE MORTON ARBORETUM — $390 · EnvironmentCamp Kesem National — $1,027 · Human ServicesANCHOR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $100 · Human ServicesHumane World for Animals Inc — $756 · Animals+1 more — $20 · Animals
Other$328,933Philanthropy$273,600Health$6,846Youth Development$5,000Environment$1,390Human Services$1,127Animals$776

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Community Impact Fund — $260,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCH — $13,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetChicago Youth Centers — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEMIPLEGIA AND STROKE ASSOCIATION — $4,271 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCamp Kesem National — $1,027 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTART EARLY — $1,013 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNET FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPROJECT N95 INC — $780 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $756 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM — $390 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABLEGAMERS FOUNDATION INC — $162 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $162 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Bright Side Inc — $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANCHOR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society — $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

AbbVie FoundationArthur J Gallagher Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
AbbVie FoundationIL13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Schwan 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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