South Carolina · Private foundation
The Karen and Paul Schaefer 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.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,040
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 70
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 22
- Total assets, FY2025
- $107k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 61 | $39k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $36k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $33k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $38k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $45k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $43k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $39k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 70 | $43k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville Symphony Association | $26,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Epworth Children's Home | $11,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $8,200 | 8 | 0% |
| Upcountry History Museum | $8,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Goodwill Industries of Upstatemidlands South Carolina Inc | $6,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $5,325 | 6 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $5,070 | 4 | 0% |
| America's Vetdogs the Veterans K-9 Corps Inc | $4,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Mom's House Inc of Toledo | $3,850 | 9 | 0% |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $3,300 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 96 recipients with no EIN on record ($232k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation with peer funders
About The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation
- How much does The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation give?
- The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $39,201 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 70 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greenville Symphony Association ($26k), Epworth Children's Home ($11k), Smithsonian Institution ($8k).
- Does The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, Scsymmes Foundation, Daniel-Mickel Foundation.
- Where is The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation based?
- The Karen and Paul Schaefer Foundation is based in SC.
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