· Private foundation
The Jack and Arlene Schumann 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of THE JACK AND ARLENE SCHUMANN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JEROME'S PARISH | $4,000 |
| WAYLAND ACADEMY | $3,640 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT | $3,000 |
| COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMAN SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MADISON READING PROJECT | $1,630 |
| BEAVER DAM FLATTAIL | $1,600 |
| ST STEPHEN'S LUTHERN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| OPERA FOR THE YOUNG | $1,500 |
| LITERACY NETWORK | $1,500 |
| FALL RIVER METHODIST CHURCH | $1,500 |
| WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION | $1,300 |
| SUN PRAIRIE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,130 |
| MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| UW LA CROUSSE FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| ONE TREE PLANTED | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- WAWAYLAND ACADEMY8× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +28%
- LNLITERACY NETWORK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +108%
- OFOpera for the Young Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- BDBEAVER DAM YOUTH BASKETBALLone grant, 2018 · $5k
- DBDAYSTAR BAPTIST MISSIONS - PALAMA Pone grant, 2021 · $3k
- SOSavanna Oaks Community Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +166%
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.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
Underdog pet rescue is an all-breed companion animal rescue and vet clinic based out of dane county, wisconsin. our mission is to find permanent homes for animals in need and to enrich lives by strengthening the connection between animals…
The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…
Gathering waters (wisconsin's alliance for land trusts) strengthens land trusts to protect wisconsin's special places and grow healthy, vibrant communities. the stronger the alliance between gathering waters' staff and board members, land…
Advance the interests of wda members and the dental profession by promoting professional excellence and quality oral health care for the public.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Valley Enterprises Inc of Beaver Dam and the most unlike its peers is Hua Momona Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 55 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 WAYLAND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Opera for the Young Inc ↗
- Who funds JUSTDANE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MADISON READING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN ↗
- Who funds HEROES HUNT FOR VETERANS CORP ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Savanna Oaks Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF DODGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN VALLEY ENTERPRISES INC OF BEAVER DAM ↗
- Who funds BO WILLIAM HARTWIG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF DODGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER DAM AREA COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MADISON CAT PROJECT 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: Duane and Kathleen Foulkes Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Peter J Seippel Foundation Inc · Beaver Dam Community Hospitals Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Dodge County Inc · Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn · Steve and Christa Slinger Family Gift Fund Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundat · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc
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 Jack and Arlene Schumann Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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