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The Scheerer 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of The Scheerer Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Impactassetsinc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Scheerer Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $121k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHANGEL ANCIENT TREE ARCHIVE | $25,000 |
| MOVEMENT UNLIMITED | $25,000 |
| THANK YOU LIFE | $23,500 |
| MOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT FUND | $10,000 |
| OLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND | $6,000 |
| GOLDEN BRIDGE | $5,500 |
| LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER | $3,000 |
| THE CLAMSHELL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN CAMP ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| MA'S HOUSE & BIPOC ART STUDIO | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| WORLD OF CHANGE | $1,000 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $500 |
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 (FY17–23, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k 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
- MHMOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +104%
- LILand is Life Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $126k · revenue +209%
- TYThank You Life3× · 2023–2025 · $109k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- MUMOVEMENT UNLIMITED INCone grant, 2022 · $20k
- SISAVORY INSTITUTEORG INCone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue 0%
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCEone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +1%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Our mission is to change the conversation and practice of healing through strategic training and interventions at interpersonal, organizational, cultural, and environmental scales.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Earth Island Institute (the Organization) was founded in 1982 by legendary environmentalist David R. Brower (1912-2000) to confront the unprecedented threats to life on Earth. The Organization supports environmental initiatives that are…
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
We envision a food system that reflects the diverse communities of our region in leadership, ownership, and priorities. all farmers lowers barriers to enable refugee and immigrant farmers to grow resilient community farms through access to…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward
The leaf project connects youth to the food they eat, the land on which it grows, and to each other through engaging in farm work, culinary skill development, workshops, and community outreach through the meaningful work of building…
Earthshare provides individuals, businesses, and nonprofits with inspiration and tools to work together for a just and sustainable world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Refugee & Immigrant Fund Incorporated. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 60 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 IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds MOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Land is Life Inc ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Thank You Life ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEUCE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds OLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds World of Change ↗
- Who funds LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHANGEL ANCIENT TREE ARCHIVE ↗
- Who funds AMBER WAVES FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS OF GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds SAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WEAVING EARTH INC ↗
- Who funds ROW NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGAWAM COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE CLAMSHELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds V-Day ↗
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: Rsf Social Finance Inc · Robin Chandler Duke Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Scheerer 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.
- Laraway Youth and Family Services Inc — 36% of income from government
- Lamoille Family Center Inc — 36% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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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