· Private foundation
The Schleyer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $217k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $347k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Drexel University | $300,000 |
| GoodWork | $147,000 |
| Berwick Academy | $100,000 |
| Wheaton College | $50,000 |
| Lydia's House of Hope | $50,000 |
| Music Hall | $30,000 |
| Exeter Hospital | $25,000 |
| Blue Ocean Society | $20,000 |
| Amherst College | $20,000 |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $20,000 |
| Vanderbilt Univ | $20,000 |
| MGH - Massachusetts General Hospital | $15,000 |
| Seacoast Science Center | $15,000 |
| Proctor Academy | $12,000 |
| St John's Episcopal Church | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% 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 +65% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +10%
- GGOODWORK6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +134% · 96% of their budget
- BABERWICK ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- ESEaster Seals NHone grant, 2019 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
- PMPOPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +11%
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. 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 33 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 67 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 DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GOODWORK ↗
- Who funds BERWICK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds EXETER HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF FAITH INC ↗
- Who funds SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of The Music Hall ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEACOAST PATHWAYS ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN REACH - ENCOURAGING GROWTH THROUGH THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS ↗
- Who funds The Chase Home ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Portsmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PRESCOTT PARK ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds GUNDALOW COMPANY ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · A Caring Community Inc · Rosamond Thaxter Foundation · Gateway Fund 7522-Xxxxxx00049 · Foundation for Seacoast Health · Eastern Bank Foundation · Newburyport Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Macdonald Family Foundation · Abraham Burtman Charity Trust · Exeter Hospital 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 Schleyer 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.
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Exeter Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Riverview School Inc — 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.