· Private foundation
Schweinfurth Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MITCHELL FOUNDATION | $98,200 |
| MT VERNON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL | $15,700 |
| MOUNT VERNON CITY SCHOOLS DIST 80 | $13,300 |
| MT VERNON TWNSHP HS DIST 201 FDN | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $9,000 |
| MT VERNON REC CENTER INC | $7,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS | $6,000 |
| MT VERNON FESTIVALS INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $5,000 |
| FIELD COMM CONS SCHOOL DIST 3 | $4,500 |
| BLUFORD UNIT DISTRICT 318 | $3,500 |
| FARRINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CCSD#99 | $2,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | $2,500 |
| ROME COMMUNITY CONS SCHOOL DIST 2 | $2,000 |
| MT VERNON TWNSHP HIGH SCH ORCHESTRA | $800 |
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 (FY17–25, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- TYThe YMCA of Jefferson County9× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +113%
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +56% · 29% of their budget
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- MVMT VERNON TWNSHP HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $18k
- MVMOUNT VERNON CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $14k
- JBJL BUFORD INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION CENTERone grant, 2022 · $12k
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.
To develop, finance and operate an indoor and outdoor sports complex in a blighted area in mattoon, il that will benefit the residents and business communities in illinois.
To provide for the people of grundy county, illinois a museum building, collection, and preservation of historical data, records, and artifacts of its people.
Sports program for youth
Organization's mission is to assist, enhance and further the educational programs and endeavors of mt. vernon township high school district 201, jefferson county, illinois.
The Jefferson County Development Corporation is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote economic development in the area of Jefferson County, Illinois by maintaining resource information, such as workforce data, geographic…
Promote, sponsor and regulate recreation programs for the Village of Fox River Grove, Ill.
To promote the developement of the resources of monroe county, illinois, in all lines of agriculture, home economics, education, and business through the medium of an annual county fair.
The organization is committed to providing quality youth sports in vernon hills, illinois
Organizes and conducts science competition in schools
The crawford county recreation center strengthens the community by providing a venue and programming for everyone in crawford county to improve their health and the health of their community, to engage in youth development to nurture the…
To foster an interest in genealogy among the public. To provide instruction in current research methods and practices. To support the preservation of and access to genealogical and historical records, especially those pertaining to McHenry…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of South Central Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Brennan Klein Field Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 42 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 The YMCA of Jefferson County ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Brennan Klein Field Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROME GRADE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MT VERNON FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MT VERNON REC CENTER INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Schweinfurth 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.