· Private foundation
The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1069 grants · $3.9M
- $10k–50k229 grants · $5.6M
- $50k–250k96 grants · $8.3M
- $250k+37 grants · $30M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000,000 |
| MOFFITT CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | $1,873,000 |
| UNIV OF ST THOMAS | $1,266,325 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | $1,050,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION - 2 | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $952,312 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $700,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $700,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | $650,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | $550,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | $500,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | $450,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | $450,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $27.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
919 repeat relationships — 452 still active in FY2024, 467 since wound down; 279 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE7× · 2018–2024 · $43M · revenue +50% · 82% of their budget
- UOUniversity of St Thomas7× · 2018–2024 · $17M · revenue +47%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $11M · revenue +87%
Funded once
- EAEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -55%
- CMCHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- BBBEST BUY DISASTER RELIEF CO BEST BUone grant, 2022 · $430k
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.
Provides shelter for homeless families & individuals, & helps them to secure long-term housing.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
To reconnect homeless and street youth to their dreams.
Nurturing independence through services for children, adults, and families with unique challenges.
Serve families who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, by providing resources in the areas of emergency assistance, stabilization and prevention.
To improve lives by ending domestic violence.
Provide services in response to individual need.
Mental Health Minnesota is the voice of lived mental health expenience. We carry that declaration forward as we work to advance mental health and well-being for all, increase access to mental health treatment and services, and provide…
To be the leader in ending homelessness by providing a unique system of dignified housing alternatives, programs, and supportive services.
Wayfinder's mission is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn.
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fostering Hope Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vassar College. 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 23 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
1308 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. 1308 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds BEST BUY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER ALLIANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Collier County ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER 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: Grapevine giving foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Allina Health System · Andersen Corporate Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Wca Foundation · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · Target 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 Richard M Schulze Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- David Lawrence Mental Health Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Ymca of Collier County — 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center 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.
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