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The Scheerer Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$121k
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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13
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15
’20
14
’21
15
’22
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’23
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’24
5
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.1MHuman Services$206kEducation$175kCivil Rights$139kHealth$135kEnvironment$127kYouth Development$58kArts & Culture$47kOther$0
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k10 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE CLAMSHELL FOUNDATION$3,000
LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EAST END HOPSICE: $1k → 7%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $7k → 9%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 9%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT FUND: $30k → 13%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $4k → 9%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT FUND: $27k → 13%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $4k → 9%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT FUND: $25k → 13%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 9%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT FUND: $10k → 13%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 9%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT FUND NYC: $6k → 13%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 9%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT FUND: $5k → 13%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT FUND: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
OK
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$847k · 24 repeat orgs$535k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
26

Total granted

$847k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +104%
  • LI
    Land is Life Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $126k · revenue +209%
  • TY
    Thank You Life
    3× · 2023–2025 · $109k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • MU
    MOVEMENT UNLIMITED INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • SI
    SAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue 0%
  • GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +1%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
2
Embodiment Institute Incorporated

Our mission is to change the conversation and practice of healing through strategic training and interventions at interpersonal, organizational, cultural, and environmental scales.

Education
3
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
4
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
5
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

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,…

Philanthropy
6
All Farmers Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
9
Activate Global Inc

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…

Environment
10
Pathways Kitchen

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

Crime & Legal
11
Leaf Project Inc

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…

Youth Development
12
Earthshare

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

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/46
Grantees still filing
27/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPACTASSETSINC: $1,320,730 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINC+3 more: $16,400 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION DONOR ADVISED FUND: $365,000 · OtherAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION DO…Land is Life Inc: $126,200 · OtherLand is Life IncTHE OJAI FOUNDATION: $69,600 · OtherTHE OJAI FOUNDATIONWorld of Change: $31,151 · OtherOLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC: $39,200 · Other+38 more: $244,800 · Other+38 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $365,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVE…MOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $162,937 · EducationLARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $6,750 · Education+1 more: $5,500 · EducationREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT FUND INCORPORATED: $108,600 · Human ServicesLAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC: $27,550 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesThank You Life: $108,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $644 · HealthDEUCE COMMUNITY INC: $51,000 · Youth DevelopmentWEAVING EARTH INC: $12,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$1,337,130Other$875,951Community Improvement$365,000Education$175,187Human Services$137,150Health$114,144Youth Development$63,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $365,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $162,937 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLand is Life Inc: $126,200 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT FUND INCORPORATED: $108,600 over 7y, 83% of budgetThank You Life: $108,500 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetTHE OJAI FOUNDATION: $69,600 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetDEUCE COMMUNITY INC: $51,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetOLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC: $39,200 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWorld of Change: $31,151 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetLAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC: $27,550 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetARCHANGEL ANCIENT TREE ARCHIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHEARTS OF GOLD INC: $14,700 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $13,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWEAVING EARTH INC: $12,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetROW NEW YORK INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $10,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $7,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $6,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN BRIDGE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGAWAM COUNCIL: $3,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLAMSHELL FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetV-Day: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMA'S HOUSE & BIPOC ART STUDIO INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEco-Institute at Pickards Mountain Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLEBURY TRANSITIONAL CARE COALITION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR MINDS MATTER: $544 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHANE MCCONKEY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMETROLACROSSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNGRY FOR MUSIC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJORDAN HOSPITAL CLUB INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Rsf Social Finance IncRobin Chandler Duke F…ImpactassetsincThe Bessemer Giving F…Jewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Donor Advised Charita…
Rsf Social Finance IncCA22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Scheerer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Scheerer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 36%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to The Scheerer Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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