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The Scherrer Foundation at a glance

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The Scherrer 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.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$308kInternational$34kHousing & Shelter$12kHealth$12kRecreation & Sports$10kYouth Development$5kReligion$500Community Improvement$412
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$50,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Interval House$50,500
THEE ORIGINAL DUCKS YOUTH FOOTBALL ORGANIZATION$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $316k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%Interval House: $80k → 14%Interval House: $51k → 14%Interval House: $43k → 14%INTERVAL HOUSE: $40k → 14%Interval House: $35k → 14%Interval House: $15k → 14%LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $12k → 14%House of Ruth: $20k → 14%House of Ruth: $20k → 14%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

MN
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
NC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$335k · 4 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$335k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+15%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthSocial ScienceEnvironmentRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • INTERVAL HOUSE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $264k · revenue +18%
  • HOUSE OF RUTH INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +17%
  • TO
    THEE ORIGINAL DUCKS YOUTH FOOTBALL ORGANIZATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +98%
  • BC
    Boston Children's Hospital League
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • IY
    I-CAN YOUTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION CO RUDOLPH JOHNSON
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -99%
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
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence

The organization's mission is to promote the collective voice of a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals working to eliminate all forms of domestic violence. as an advocate for sociate change, we advance our mission by…

Civil Rights
2
Safehouse Denver Inc

Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…

Human Services
3
Covenant House California

Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.

Human Services
4
Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…

Human Services
5
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
6
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
7
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
8
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
9
Movember Foundation

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Health
10
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
11
Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking

To end modern slavery through education, advocacy, and empowering survivors of human trafficking.

Crime & Legal
12
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Ruth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kind Souls Foundation Corporation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERVAL HOUSE: $263,950 · Human ServicesINTERVAL HOUSEHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF RUTH INCLOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $12,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesKITECHILD: $21,100 · Social ScienceCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $13,000 · PhilanthropyTHEE ORIGINAL DUCKS YOUTH FOOTBALL ORGANIZATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsKIND SOULS FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $3,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthINFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $2,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $500 · HealthBoston Children's Hospital League: $5,000 · OtherBEL AIR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $500 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $2,000 · OtherCHANGE STARTS WITH ME: $412 · Other+1 more: $100 · OtherI-CAN YOUTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION CO RUDOLPH JOHNSON: $5,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$316,450Social Science$21,100Philanthropy$13,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Health$7,500Other$8,012Youth Development$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERVAL HOUSE: $263,950 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKITECHILD: $21,100 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetI-CAN YOUTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION CO RUDOLPH JOHNSON: $5,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFREY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGE STARTS WITH ME: $412 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

California Community …The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Scherrer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Scherrer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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