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The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$678k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
73%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 19
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$7.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 73% of the organizations The John H Schnatter Family Foundation 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; $162k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationScience & TechSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$678k65%
FY202411$480k73%
FY20237$358k43%
FY202215$453k80%
FY20216$109k67%
FY202019$1.4Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$801kEducation$796kHealth$490kPhilanthropy$312kPublic Safety & Disaster$290kRecreation & Sports$288kHuman Services$184kFood & Nutrition$181kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
IN
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
DC
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Cornerstone Institute Inc$600,00032%
Give to Research$300,00022%
Phoenix Rising Hope Foundation$250,000133%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$100,00010%
American Action Network Inc$100,00010%
Diamond Derby Inc Barnstable Brown Party$96,25023%
Giving Hope Inc$50,00010%
St Stephen Baptist Church$50,0001n/a
Issues in the Tissues International Corp$35,7002n/a
Feeding Dreams Inc$25,00014%
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Cornerstone Institute Inc$600,00032%
Give to Research$300,00022%
Phoenix Rising Hope Foundation$250,000133%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$100,00010%
American Action Network Inc$100,00010%
Diamond Derby Inc Barnstable Brown Party$96,25023%
Giving Hope Inc$50,00010%
St Stephen Baptist Church$50,0001n/a
Issues in the Tissues International Corp$35,7002n/a
Feeding Dreams Inc$25,00014%
American Conservative Union Foundationinc$25,00010%
Commonwealth Policy Foundation Inc$20,00016%
Waldo Racing Foundation$20,000211%
Louisville Zoological Gardens$15,0002n/a
American Heart Association Inc$12,50020%
Boys & Girls Club of Collier County Flor$12,00010%
The Mid Atlantic Charity Foundation$12,0001n/a
Americas Future Inc$10,00010%
2l Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Mystic Seaport Museum Inc$10,00010%
Addie and Baylor Kirchgessner Foundation Inc$6,00021%
West End School Inc$5,00010%
Helping a HeroOrg$5,00010%
Kosair Charities Committee Inc$5,00010%
Norton Healthcare Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
The Carpenters Hope$5,00014%
Parks Alliance of Louisville Inc$2,50010%
USA Cares Inc$2,00010%
Fire Missions Inc$1,00011%
The Prisoners Hope Inc$1,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,00010%
The Hope Center Inc$1,00010%
Gilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc$1,00010%
Breakthrough T1d$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Cornerstone Institute Inc: $600,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetGive to Research: $300,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPhoenix Rising Hope Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Action Network Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDiamond Derby Inc Barnstable Brown Party: $96,250 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGiving Hope Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding Dreams Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetAmerican Conservative Union Foundationinc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommonwealth Policy Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetWaldo Racing Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Collier County Flor: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmericas Future Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMystic Seaport Museum Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAddie and Baylor Kirchgessner Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWest End School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHelping a HeroOrg: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKosair Charities Committee Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carpenters Hope: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetParks Alliance of Louisville Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUSA Cares Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFire Missions Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Prisoners Hope Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hope Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

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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.

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About The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc

How much does The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc give?
The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $677,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (23%), Education (23%), Health (14%).
Who are The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: American Cornerstone Institute Inc ($600k), Give to Research ($300k), Phoenix Rising Hope Foundation ($250k).
Does The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
Where is The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc based?
The John H Schnatter Family Foundation Foundation Inc is based in KY.

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 59 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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