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The Betty T and David M Schneider Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Betty T and David M Schneider Foundation

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.

$450k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$772kArts & Culture$479kEducation$388kPhilanthropy$344kCommunity Improvement$229kYouth Development$142kEnvironment$99kHuman Services$67kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $151k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $255k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$263k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS$150,000
FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER$55,000
BUCKLEY INSTITUTE$50,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND$40,000
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL$25,300
FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS$25,000
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA$15,000
KEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$10,500
CENTER FOR THE ARTS$10,000
GICIA$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$6,500
UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION (FIRE)$3,000
HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE$2,500
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 (FY17–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $55k → 11%SIX POINTS EVALUATION & TRAINING INC: $500 → 10%THE GATHERING PLACE: $1k → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $500 → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $500 → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $500 → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $500 → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $300 → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $3k → 17%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $2k → 17%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

ME
MN
IL
MI
NY
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
DC
HI
GA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 58 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
32

Total granted

$2.4M
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+22%

Still filing today

69%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $225k · revenue +121%
  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +71%
  • BI
    BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $112k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • MM
    MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • RD
    RYON D PROVENCHER MEMORIAL FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0% · 26% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
5
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
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
9
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
10
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
11
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Johann Fust Library Foundation 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

72 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. 72 of the 109 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
42/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS: $481,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALSFRIENDS OF BOCA GRAND COMMUNITY: $222,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BOCA GRAND COMMUNITYUNITED WAY SERVICES GREATER CLEVELAND: $155,000 · OtherUNITED WAY SERVICES GREATER CLEVELANDYALE: $125,300 · OtherYALE+62 more: $288,040 · Other+62 moreFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $190,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHR…BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $112,000 · EducationBUCKLEY INSTITUTE I…UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $111,600 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOL+9 more: $39,425 · Education+9 moreCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $140,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUS…The Musical Arts Association: $80,300 · Arts & CultureThe Musical A…THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FO…+6 more: $13,300 · Arts & CultureSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 · HealthSARASOTA ME…HOPEWELL: $15,300 · HealthHOPEWELLRECOVERY RESOURCES: $11,500 · Health+2 more: $3,300 · HealthWAITE HILL VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $90,010 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $33,500 · PhilanthropyKEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyRYON D PROVENCHER MEMORIAL FUND: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyGASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN: $34,000 · EnvironmentCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: $30,500 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $8,750 · EnvironmentTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $3,500 · Environment+3 more: $3,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING PLACE: $3,300 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human Services
Other$1,271,340Education$453,025Arts & Culture$308,600Health$255,100Philanthropy$189,010Environment$80,250Human Services$63,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $190,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $112,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $111,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWAITE HILL VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $90,010 over 8y, 27% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $80,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $75,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $55,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN: $34,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $33,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: $30,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHOPEWELL: $15,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY RESOURCES: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL INSURRECTION FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEmmanuel Promise of Hope Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,250 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRYON D PROVENCHER MEMORIAL FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $8,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAdaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MAJESTIC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $4,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $4,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $3,550 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $3,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILEMED1 INC DBA MEDWORKS: $3,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREAL CLEAR MEDIA FUND: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $1,500 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.

  • Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WAITE HILL VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL ↗
  • Who funds KEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL INSURRECTION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Emmanuel Promise of Hope Inc ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RYON D PROVENCHER MEMORIAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Jewish Federation of …Jane and Jon Outcalt …Emma R Fox Char Trust…The Lozick Family Fou…The Rig III Family Fo…A Malachi Mixon III &…The Sk Wellman Founda…John P Murphy Foundat…Triad Foundation IncDonors Trust IncThe Kelvin & Eleanor …
The Cleveland FoundationOH36.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Rig III Family Foundation · A Malachi Mixon III & Barbara W Mixon Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation

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 The Betty T and David M Schneider Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Betty T and David M Schneider Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 109 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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