· Private foundation
The Schaffner Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| Forgotten Felines | $10,000 |
| Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation | $5,000 |
| Native Songbird Care and Conservati | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 45% of The Schaffner Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 57%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +30%
- ACAUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +65%
- SCSebastopol Center for the Arts7× · 2017–2023 · $77k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- XTXENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +72%
- CWCOMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +52%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See Schedule O.We support and advocate for wildlife through: rehabilitation education, community outreach and partnerships in order to promote sustainable and healthy eco-systems in Napa County for the present and future generations.
Norcal Golden Retriever Rescue is an all-volunteer organization that has rescued and found permanent, loving homes for Golden Retrievers and Golden Retriever mixes since its inception in 1994. Through the dedicated work of its foster…
C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…
We work in cooperation with humane organizations shelters and other groups interested in animal rescue. We rescue domestic animals and place them in nurturing foster homes. All animals are evaluated altered and vaccinated prior to…
High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Jameson humane is an impact-driven nonprofit organization whose program model includes a variety of novel solutions and approaches to create a truly unique animal welfare organization that is unlike any animal rescue or sanctuary. jameson…
To provide sanctuary for dogs of the Boxer breed, both full and partial-bred; to educate the public on the importance of spaying or neutering; to provide instruction for proper pet care.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Sebastopol Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIVE SONGBIRD CARE & CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds Laguna De Santa Rosa Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds DOGWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT INC ↗
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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Schaffner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schaffner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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