· Private foundation
Schweinfurth Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Schweinfurth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schweinfurth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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