Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation Dossiers
Plinth

· Private foundation

Schwemm Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$129k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$432kArts & Culture$183kFood & Nutrition$124kAnimals$48kRecreation & Sports$45kHuman Services$38kYouth Development$23kCrime & Legal$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
$8,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
High Desert Museum$10,000
Friends of Sausal Creek$10,000
Urban Rivers$10,000
Upwell Turtles$10,000
Depave$10,000
White Buffalo Land Trust$10,000
Friends of the Owyhee$10,000
The Beaver Coalition DBA Project Be$9,900
Museum of Ventura County$8,000
Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project$8,000
Friends of the Chicago River$7,975
Wishtoyo Foundation$6,344
Ashland Climate Collaborative$5,000
Arroyos Foothills Conservancy$4,200
Greater Chicago Food Depository$2,000
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 (FY18–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TREASURE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF N: $2k → 20%BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES: $8k → 12%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
NC
DC
AL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Schwemm Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Schwemm Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$410k · 26 repeat orgs$569k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
84

Total granted

$410k
$507k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+17%

Still filing today

92%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • UR
    URBAN RIVERS INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +389%
  • CN
    California Native Plant Society
    3× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue +273%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • AD
    ALIGHT DONOR SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • MS
    MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -2%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +10%

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
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
2
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.

—
3
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
4
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
5
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
6
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
7
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
8
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
9
Coquille Watershed Association

Coquille watershed association (coqwa) works collaboratively with communities and landowners to develop and implement voluntary watershed restoration, enhancement, and community engagement activities that promote healthy and resilient…

Food & Nutrition
10
South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership

SURCP is a community based 501(C)(3) collaborative dedicated to social and economic revitalization of the communities located in the South Umpqua river basin geographical area. Our mission is to develop a local workforce, business…

Environment
11
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

—
12
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restore Oregon Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eugene Debbs Potts Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLabor Union Benefit PlansPublic Safety Labor Organiz…Jewish Community Organizati…Supportive Housing & Servic…Community Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr13%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr13%14%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/91
the rest of the field
14%
22,619/156,804

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.

05the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 122 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/89
Grantees still filing
52/89
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

URBAN RIVERS INC — $24,431 · EnvironmentURBAN RIVERS INCCalifornia Native Plant Society — $24,000 · EnvironmentCalifornia Native Plant SocietyEarth Island Institute Inc — $18,500 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute IncCOASTAL WATERSHED COUNCIL — $16,500 · EnvironmentCOASTAL WATERSHED COUNCILTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK — $16,000 · EnvironmentTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWO…WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST — $15,000 · EnvironmentWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUSTROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL — $13,150 · EnvironmentThe Wetlands Conservancy Inc — $13,000 · EnvironmentWOLF CREEK COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $11,320 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE OWYHEE — $10,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF SAUSAL CREEK — $10,000 · EnvironmentDEPAVE — $10,000 · Environment+15 more — $89,750 · Environment+15 moreALIGHT DONOR SERVICES — $15,000 · OtherACCESS — $13,000 · OtherCOASTAL ROOTS FARM — $12,000 · Other+53 more — $304,314 · Other+53 moreMUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY — $36,550 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF VENTURA COUN…FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER — $23,355 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO…Josephy Center for Arts and Culture — $17,850 · Arts & CultureJosephy Center for Art…WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION — $17,428 · Arts & CultureWISHTOYO FOUNDATION DB…MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMP…HIGH DESERT MUSEUM — $14,000 · Arts & CultureHIGH DESERT MUSEUMFriends of Historic Butteville — $11,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Historic Bu…GRESHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA MONICA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Arts & CultureASTORIA SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE ASSN — $8,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $16,578 · Arts & Culture+5 moreEco Urban Gardens — $24,000 · Food & NutritionWILD FARMLANDS FOUNDATION — $16,000 · Food & NutritionSIERRA HARVEST — $13,000 · Food & NutritionWE SOW WE GROW PROJECT — $8,000 · Food & NutritionLOST SIERRA FOOD PROJECT — $5,830 · Food & Nutrition+3 more — $6,000 · Food & NutritionUpwell Turtles — $18,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · AnimalsGREATER FARALLONES ASSOCIATION — $7,500 · AnimalsRIVER OTTER ECOLOGY PROJECT — $5,987 · AnimalsCACHE CREEK CONSERVANCY — $5,000 · AnimalsGARDENEERS — $11,500 · EducationElkton Community Education Center — $8,000 · EducationTHE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER — $7,894 · EducationLOS COMPADRES DE ESCUELA LONGFELLOW — $4,000 · EducationSINGING CREEK EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $1,210 · EducationKlamath Trail Alliance — $8,000 · Recreation & SportsThe San Diego River Park Foundation — $8,000 · Recreation & SportsSan Diego Parks Foundation — $6,500 · Recreation & SportsASHLAND PARKS FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Environment$271,651Other$344,314Arts & Culture$191,761Food & Nutrition$72,830Animals$46,487Education$32,604Recreation & Sports$24,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY — $36,550 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN RIVERS INC — $24,431 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCalifornia Native Plant Society — $24,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEco Urban Gardens — $24,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER — $23,355 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUpwell Turtles — $18,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJosephy Center for Arts and Culture — $17,850 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION — $17,428 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOASTAL WATERSHED COUNCIL — $16,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK — $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILD FARMLANDS FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL — $13,150 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Wetlands Conservancy Inc — $13,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSIERRA HARVEST — $13,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetACCESS — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL ROOTS FARM — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGARDENEERS — $11,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWOLF CREEK COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $11,320 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAUSAL CREEK — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFriends of the Columbia Gorge — $8,050 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRESHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetKlamath Trail Alliance — $8,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSANTA MONICA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSequoia Riverlands Trust — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES — $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe San Diego River Park Foundation — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWE SOW WE GROW PROJECT — $8,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSANCTUARY FOREST INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetElkhorn Slough Foundation — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetElkton Community Education Center — $8,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetASTORIA SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE ASSN — $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER — $7,894 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc — $7,815 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLa Jolla Historical Society — $7,741 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION INC — $7,530 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGET INSPIRED — $7,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetGREATER FARALLONES ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center — $7,400 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

PatagoniaorgThe Oregon Community …The Autzen FoundationResources Legacy FundThe Roundhouse Founda…The Reser Family Foun…The Ford Family Found…Juan Young TrustBraemar Charitable Tr…National Fish and Wil…The Rose Foundation f…Meyer Memorial Trust
PatagoniaorgCA45.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Schwemm 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Rogue River Watershed Council — 94% of income from government
  • Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nurser — 70% of income from government
  • Access — 65% of income from government
  • Coos Watershed Association — 44% of income from government
  • Building Healthy Families — 41% of income from government
  • Joseph Branch Trail Consortium — 34% of income from government
  • Shelton-McMurphey Johnson Associate — 22% of income from government
  • The Wetlands Conservancy Inc — 18% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
  • Friends of Historic Butteville — 9% of income from government
  • Josephy Center for Arts and Culture — 7% of income from government
  • Gresham Historical Society — 4% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon Historical Society Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Restore Oregon Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Elkton Community Education Center — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Schwemm Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Schwemm Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 122 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines