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The Dee Ann and Mark Schofield Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$119k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$57k
Largest
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 2024.

Religion$344kHealth$179kAnimals$111kRecreation & Sports$56kEducation$40kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$6kEnvironment$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$1,270
Median grant
3
States reached
$586k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH$57,260
JDRF$27,780
WALTER GERLACH LIVESTOCK SHOW$17,700
SAN ANTONIO STOCK SHOW & RODEO$11,750
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$1,500
CCA TEXAS$1,270
SAN ANTONIO ZOO$500
CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH$500
Individual grant recipient$200
CORNERSTONE CHURCH$107
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR FFA$54
MEDINA LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$50
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 (FY19–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%MEDINA LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $50 → 12%RANSOMED LIFE INC: $1k → 16%RANSOMED LIFE INC: $1k → 16%RANSOMED LIFE INC: $1k → 16%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$687k · 17 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$687k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+17%

Still filing today

41%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +49%
  • WG
    Walter Gerlach Livestock Show & Sale Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $107k · revenue +36%
  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • BC
    BEXAR COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOWgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $750 · revenue +41%
  • Q
    QTEGO
    one grant, 2019 · $475
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
Texas Academy of Medicine Engineering Science and Technology

To provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in medicine, engineering and science, and to build a stronger identity for texas as an important destination and center of achievement in these fields.

Health
2
South Texas Zoological Society

Operation of the texas zoo in victoria, texas and connect people with the wildlife from texas and the rest of the world, for nature and advance conservation through education, recreation, science and action. the mission is accomplished…

Animals
3
Texas Society of Architects

Texas Society of Architects is the voice for Texas architecture, supporting the creation of safe, beautiful, sustainable environments.

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4
Texas Association of Future Farmers of America

Txffa makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education.

Youth Development
5
American Society of Landscape Architects Texas Chapter

Advancement of education and skill in the art of Landscape Architecture and the promotion of the profession of Landscape Architecture as an instrument of service in the public welfare.

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6
Texas Archeological Society

To promote scientific archeological exploration and research, the preservation and conservation of archeological materials and sites, and the curation of their associated information.

Arts & Culture
7
Genetic Resource Association of Texas
Health
8
Science Teachers Association of Texas

To promote science education through the efforts and activities of the organization

Science & Tech
9
University of Texas At San Antonio Alumni Association

To engage our alumni in activities that will advance utsa as a top-tier institution. our focus is to deliver value-added services and events where our alumni can connect with each other, with current students and/or with the university. we…

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10
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Texas a&M San Antonio Foundation

To furnish Texas AM University-San Antonio with provisions for future and perpetual financial support for its students to help them succeed during college and in the future as valuable contributing members of the community

Education
12
Texas Medical Association

The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

11 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. 11 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHUR: $285,390 · OtherOUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHUROUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $57,260 · OtherOUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCHSAN ANTONIO STOCK SHOW RODEO: $44,672 · OtherSAN ANTONIO STOCK SHOW RODEODEVINE DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS: $30,000 · OtherDEVINE DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS+15 more: $34,710 · Other+15 moreBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $179,013 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DWalter Gerlach Livestock Show & Sale Inc: $106,687 · Youth DevelopmentWalter Gerlach L…+1 more: $3,027 · Youth DevelopmentTexas A&M Foundation: $7,580 · EducationBEXAR COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW: $750 · EducationCCA TEXAS FUND: $4,346 · EnvironmentRANSOMED LIFE INC: $3,035 · Human Services+1 more: $50 · Human ServicesSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $2,780 · Animals
Other$452,032Health$179,013Youth Development$109,714Education$8,330Environment$4,346Human Services$3,085Animals$2,780

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 budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $179,013 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWalter Gerlach Livestock Show & Sale Inc: $106,687 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $7,580 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCCA TEXAS FUND: $4,346 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRANSOMED LIFE INC: $3,035 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSA YOUTH: $3,027 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $2,780 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEXAR COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW: $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Winston School: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDINA LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $50 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds Walter Gerlach Livestock Show & Sale Inc ↗
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CCA TEXAS FUND ↗
  • Who funds RANSOMED LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds SA YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BEXAR COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ↗
  • Who funds The Winston School ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART ↗
  • Who funds MEDINA LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗

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.

Michael & Amy Mulholland FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michael & Amy Mulholland Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Dee Ann and Mark Schofield Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dee Ann and Mark Schofield Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Dee Ann and Mark Schofield Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Dee Ann and Mark Schofield 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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