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Sheldon & Denise Schiller Foundation Inc at a glance

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Sheldon & Denise Schiller Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$56kPhilanthropy$49kReligion$13kHuman Services$10kHealth$1kCivil Rights$566Education$525International$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $870
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$100
Median grant
4
States reached
$348k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA$10,835
FUND FOR THE ARTS$550
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF KENTUCKY$100
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN$100
Individual grant recipient$100
THE AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION FOUNDATION$20
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $50) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $50 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CO
KY
MD
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$79k · 12 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
36

Total granted

$79k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+57%

Still filing today

42%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TL
    THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +109%
  • WI
    WATERSTEP INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $100 · revenue +131%
  • Children First Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $75 · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IL
    IMPACT100 LOUISVILLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +57%
  • AS
    ANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +110%
  • MH
    MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION DAVID JUSTUS JOYFUL MOMENTS CLUB
    one grant, 2021 · $250
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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3
Lafayette General Foundation Inc

The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…

Health
4
Louisville Academy of Music

The louisville academy of music welcomes everyone to join our musical community. lam nurtures lifelong learners, not solely as musicians but also as creative, inspired people. equity in music education is a force to realize potential,…

Arts & Culture
5
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
6
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
7
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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8
American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute

To drive american advanced manufacturing into the future through technology and talent development.

Science & Tech
9
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
10
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $53,415 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INCFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $2,100 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $326 · Arts & CultureJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $47,925 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC+3 more: $1,074 · PhilanthropyCONGREGATION ADATH JESHURUN: $12,114 · OtherCONGREGATION ADATH JE…TRAGER FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · OtherTRAGER FAMILY JEWISH …+31 more: $3,095 · Other+31 moreVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC: $250 · EducationKENTUCKY TO THE WORLD INC: $175 · EducationRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $100 · EducationIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $100 · EducationChildren First Inc: $75 · EducationLINCOLN FOUNDATION: $25 · EducationANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $50 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $35 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $25 · HealthLOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC: $125 · Recreation & SportsWATERSTEP INC: $100 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$55,841Philanthropy$48,999Other$25,209Education$725Health$610Recreation & Sports$125Youth Development$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $53,415 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $47,925 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT100 LOUISVILLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $190 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY TO THE WORLD INC: $175 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERSTEP INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren First Inc: $75 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN FOUNDATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Charles L Weisberg Fa…Republic Bank Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Kindred Foundation IncLG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Susan and William…Isadore & Rose Goldst…The Lewis and Gladys …C E and S Foundation …V V Cooke Foundation …
Charles L Weisberg Family FoundationKY26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles L Weisberg Family Foundation · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Kindred Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Susan and William Yarmuth Family Foundation Inc · Isadore & Rose Goldstein Family Foundation Inc · The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation · C E and S Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sheldon & Denise Schiller Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheldon & Denise Schiller Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Children First Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Sheldon & Denise Schiller Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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