· Private foundation
The Deeann Flores Schertz 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVINGSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| SOZO CHARITIES | $20,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $19,000 |
| PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION | $15,000 |
| GENERATION CHURCH | $15,000 |
| HARTFORD SYLVIA ENCINAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO | $15,000 |
| KINGDOM CHURCH | $15,000 |
| ROCK HILL GOSPEL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION | $6,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK | $5,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| JACOB'S HOPE | $5,000 |
| SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME INC | $5,000 |
| GOING PLACES | $2,000 |
| SOLDIERS ANGELS | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GPGOING PLACES4× · 2022–2025 · $116k · revenue +63% · 35% of their budget
- FFFELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2025 · $39k · revenue +39%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- DSDESERT SPRINGS CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $33k
- SFSPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +1%
- RERIGGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Children's flight of hope (cfoh) provides flights to essential, life-changing, and life-saving medical care for children in need. together with our donors, partners, and champions, we help ease the emotional and financial burden on…
Better together helps at-risk families by empowering parents and surrounding them with community, meaningful work opportunities, and practical support. our volunteer-driven, professionally supported model provides direct services so that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Raising Up the Lowcountry 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.
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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 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. 35 of the 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GOING PLACES ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds The International Foundation ↗
- Who funds Green Heart Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS HOPE ↗
- Who funds Open Hearts Family Wellness ↗
- Who funds ZACK ZOLIN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION LIGHT SHINE ↗
- Who funds GREEN BERET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEGACIES ALIVE ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
- Who funds GLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds GILBERT AMERICAN LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Joanna Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · American Express Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation
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 The Deeann Flores Schertz 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.