Maryland · Private foundation
Schwemm Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $129k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Schwemm Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $129k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $146k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $132k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $125k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $104k | 90% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $82k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $107k | 76% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $81k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Ventura County | $36,550 | 5 | 0% |
| Urban Rivers Inc | $24,431 | 3 | 3% |
| California Native Plant Society | $24,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Eco Urban Gardens | $24,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Friends of the Chicago River | $23,355 | 4 | 0% |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | $18,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Upwell Turtles | $18,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Josephy Center for Arts and Culture | $17,850 | 3 | 2% |
| Wishtoyo Foundation Dba Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation | $17,428 | 3 | 0% |
| Coastal Watershed Council | $16,500 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($187k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Schwemm Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Braemar Charitable Trust · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Meyer Memorial Trust
How this is measured
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About Schwemm Family Foundation
- How much does Schwemm Family Foundation give?
- Schwemm Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $129,419 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Schwemm Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (44%), Arts & Culture (19%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Schwemm Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Museum of Ventura County ($37k), Urban Rivers Inc ($24k), California Native Plant Society ($24k).
- Does Schwemm Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schwemm Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Schwemm Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Autzen Foundation.
- Where is Schwemm Family Foundation based?
- Schwemm Family Foundation is based in MD.
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