How much did THE SCHEERER FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

Philanthropy$1.3MEducation$148kHuman Services$123kHealth$114kYouth Development$63kArts & Culture$47kFood & Nutrition$34kEnvironment$31kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$1.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

environment orderorder strivestrive sustainable

2020

environment orderorder strivestrive sustainable

2021

environment orderorder strivestrive sustainable

2022

—

2023

—

2024

—

2025

donor advised

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k4 grants · $85k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$250k+3 grants · $2.1M

$60,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

IMPACTASSETS INC$1,320,730
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$365,000
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION DONOR ADVISED FUND$365,000
THANK YOU LIFE$60,000
DEUCE COMMUNITY INC$25,000
MOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$20,000
OLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND$20,000
AMBER WAVES FARM$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$740k · 23 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$740k

$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+47%

Still filing today

70%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

PhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentOther

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

MH
MOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
8× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +59%
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THANK YOU LIFE
3× · 2023–2025 · $109k · revenue +417%
LI
LAND IS LIFE
4× · 2018–2021 · $106k · revenue +162%

Funded once

MU
MOVEMENT UNLIMITED
one grant, 2023 · $25k
AA
ARCHANGEL ANCIENT TREE ARCHIVEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +90%
MU
MOVEMENT UNLIMITED
one grant, 2022 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Living Arts International Inc

Lai incubates cultural initiatives that contribute to a peaceful, sustainable future, using the living arts as a catalyst for change.

Arts & Culture

Regenerative Earth

Preserving biological diversity and indigenous wisdom in keystone ecosystems globally, as well as enabling conditions where humans and the environment thrive within.

Environment

Earth Island Institute Inc

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…

Environment

Earthshare

Earthshare provides individuals, businesses, and nonprofits with inspiration and tools to work together for a just and sustainable world.

Environment

Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment

Earth Law Center Inc

Earth Law Center works to build a global force of advocates for the inherent rights of nature. Earth Law Centers goal is to ensure the laws of all governments recognize and protect the rights of ecosystems and species to exist, thrive, and…

Social Science

Earthlinks Inc

To cultivate transformation and self-worth with people experiencing homelessness and poverty by creating opportunities through earth-centered programs to restore both people and the planet.

Community Improvement

Global Impact Investing Network Inc

Increase the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet.

Philanthropy

One Earth Collective

The working mission of One Earth Collective is to harness the power of people through vibrant environmental programming that inspires action, facilitates learning, promotes justice, and fosters equity and inclusion to create resilient…

Environment

Human Impacts Institute Inc

The Human Impacts Institute's mission is to build a global cultural movement that's inspiring big, bold, and beautiful climate action.

Environment

Wave Farm Inc

Wave farm is an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. we cultivate creative practices in radio and support artists and nonprofit organizations in their cultural endeavors.

Arts & Culture

Seeds

Implement local solutions to global issues at the intersection of ecology, education, and design.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amber Waves Farm Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3/38

the rest of the field

11%

206,161/1,819,527

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.

05the grantee network

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/38

Grantees still filing

26/38

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$1,337,130Other$1,132,600Education$147,555Human Services$123,150Health$113,600Youth Development$63,000Arts & Culture$46,700

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.

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.

Rsf Social Finance IncCA20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 113631988 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 83% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Scheerer Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Scheerer Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE SCHEERER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Scheerer Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE SCHEERER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Scheerer Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph