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The Schaefer 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOG'S INC | $3,000 |
| MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH | $1,500 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $1,200 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| DAUGHTERS OF WISDOM | $1,000 |
| BOYERTOWN COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE DELAWARE CANAL | $1,000 |
| ASPEN RHOADS RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TREVOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON CROSSING PARK | $1,000 |
| QUEEN OF PEACE | $1,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| UNICEF | $1,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $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 (FY17–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 14 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, 79% 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
- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +146%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +31%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC7× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- WLWASHINGTON & LEE ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2018 · $5k
- UVUCD VET SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $5k
- QOQUEEN OF PEACE CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 120 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 Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DELAWARE CANAL INC ↗
- Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds CONGENITAL HAND CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYERTOWN COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON CROSSING PARK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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: Aetna Foundation Inc · Ppl Foundation · Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau · Foundations Community Partnership · Penn Community Bank Foundation · Berks County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Schaefer 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Santa Fe College Foundation 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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