New York · Private foundation
Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family 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.
- $272k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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 | 15 | $272k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $167k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $138k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $131k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $130k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $142k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $139k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $113k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Inc | $196,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Opportunities Alternatives and Resources of Tompkins County | $176,700 | 8 | 5% |
| The Cherry Arts Inc | $117,936 | 9 | 15% |
| State Theatre of Ithaca Inc | $82,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Free Science Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 35% |
| Tioga County Rural Ministry Inc | $76,700 | 2 | 7% |
| Ithaca Welcomes Refugees Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Tioga County Boys & Girls Club Inc | $54,575 | 5 | 2% |
| Greater Ithaca Activities Center Inc | $53,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Cascadilla Boat Club Ltd | $50,000 | 1 | 16% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($142k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Park Foundation Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · City Federation of Women's Organizations Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Social Service League of Ithaca Inc · Norathco Foundation · United Way of Tompkins County Inc · The Tsb Foundation Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · Yhb Charitable Endowment Inc
How this is measured
Compare Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc give?
- Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $271,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Human Services (15%), Crime & Legal (15%).
- Who are Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Inc ($196k), Opportunities Alternatives and Resources of Tompkins County ($177k), The Cherry Arts Inc ($118k).
- Does Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc, Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County, Park Foundation Inc.
- Where is Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc based?
- Steven and Marcy Schaeffer Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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