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The Marillyn M & Robert W Schlutz Family Foundation at a glance

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The Marillyn M & Robert W Schlutz Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$58kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kCommunity Improvement$30kHuman Services$19kEducation$9kRecreation & Sports$7kCrime & Legal$5kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$86k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRANDVIEW COMMUNITY CLUB$20,000
L-M SCHOOL DISTRICT - FOOD PANTRY$5,000
L-M SCHOOL DISTRICT - SPORTS LEAGUE$5,000
LOUISA COUNTY VIETNAM VETERANS$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%GRANDVIEW COMMUNITY CLUB: $20k → 11%LETTS COMMUNITY FIRE DEPT: $20k → 12%GRANDVIEW COMMUNITY CLUB: $10k → 11%L-M SCHOOL DISTRICT - SPORTS LEAGUE: $5k → 12%GRANDVIEW FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 11%L-M SCHOOL DISTRICT - FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 12%LOUISA COUNTY AMBULANCE: $30k → 11%LOUISA COUNTY VIETNAM VETERANS: $5k → 12%COLUMBUS JUNCTION POLICE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 11%L-M ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $3k → 12%COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER: $5k → 11%CITY OF LETTS: $3k → 12%COLUMBUS JUNCTION SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUS: $24k → 12%LOUISA COUNTY AMBULANCE: $5k → 11%LETTS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1k → 12%COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CHILDRENS CENTER: $4k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUS: $24k → 12%COLUMBUS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $3k → 11%L-M ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $1k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBUS JUNCTION LI: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUS: $10k → 12%COLUMBUS COMMUNITY ATHLETIC BOOSTER: $2k → 11%COLUMBUS JUNCTION LIBRARY: $1k → 11%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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69k · 3 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -49% since the first grant, against -74% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$69k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-49%
-74%

Still filing today

0%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

  • LC
    LOUISA COUNTY AMBLULANCE
    2× · 2018–2021 · $35k
  • GC
    GRANDVIEW COMMUNITY CLUB
    2× · 2022–2024 · $30k
  • LE
    L-M ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $4k

Funded once

  • LC
    LETTS COMMUNITY FIRE DEPT
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • CJ
    COLUMBUS JUNCTION POLICE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • CJ
    COLUMBUS JUNCTION SENIOR CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOUISA COUNTY AMBLULANCE: $35,000 · OtherLOUISA COUNTY AMBLULANCEGRANDVIEW COMMUNITY CLUB: $30,000 · OtherGRANDVIEW COMMUNITY CLUBLETTS COMMUNITY FIRE DEPT: $20,000 · OtherLETTS COMMUNITY FIRE DEPTCOLUMBUS JUNCTION POLICE DEPARTMENT: $5,300 · OtherLOUISA COUNTY VIETNAM VETERANS: $5,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS JUNCTION SENIOR CENTER: $5,000 · OtherL-M SCHOOL DISTRICT - FOOD PANTRY: $5,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER: $5,000 · OtherL-M SCHOOL DISTRICT - SPORTS LEAGUE: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+8 more: $19,852 · Other+8 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE: $58,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER M…
Other$140,152Philanthropy$58,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE: $58,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLOUISA COUNTY AMBLULANCE: $35,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS COMMUNITY CHILDRENS CENTE: $4,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE ↗
  • Who funds LOUISA COUNTY AMBLULANCE ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CHILDRENS CENTE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Marillyn M & Robert W Schlutz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marillyn M & Robert W Schlutz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
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    How do I get to The Marillyn M & Robert W Schlutz Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Marillyn M & Robert W Schlutz Family 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 19 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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