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The Schleyer Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$964k
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.9MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHuman Services$528kReligion$265kHealth$193kArts & Culture$174kEnvironment$163kHousing & Shelter$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $217k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $347k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Vanderbilt Univ$20,000
Amherst College$20,000
Phillips Exeter Academy$20,000
Blue Ocean Society$20,000
Seacoast Science Center$15,000
MGH - Massachusetts General Hospital$15,000
Proctor Academy$12,000
St John's Episcopal Church$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Seeds of Faith: $55k → 9%Seeds of Faith: $40k → 9%The Chase Home: $5k → 5%The Chase Home: $5k → 5%The Chase Home: $5k → 5%The Chase Home: $5k → 5%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
NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
TN
NC
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 47 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
11

Total granted

$6.1M
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+30%

Still filing today

62%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +10%
  • G
    GOODWORK
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +134% · 96% of their budget
  • BA
    BERWICK ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • ES
    Easter Seals NH
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • PM
    POPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +11%
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
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
2
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
7
Dean College

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,…

Education
8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
10
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
11
Northeastern University
Education
12
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 67 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
36/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $2,100,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYBERWICK ACADEMY: $800,000 · EducationBERWICK ACADEMYWheaton College: $335,000 · EducationWheaton CollegeVanderbilt University: $160,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $160,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $160,000 · Education+5 more: $116,600 · EducationLydia's House of Hope: $350,000 · OtherLydia's House of HopeSt John's Episcopal Church: $252,000 · OtherSt John's Episcopal C…Families First: $90,000 · OtherFamilies FirstBlue Ocean Society: $75,000 · OtherBlue Ocean SocietyVeterans Count Seacoast Chapter: $48,050 · OtherMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Other+35 more: $371,801 · Other+35 moreGOODWORK: $1,049,279 · EmploymentGOODWORKSEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of The Music Hall: $49,000 · Arts & CultureARTS IN REACH - ENCOURAGING GROWTH THROUGH THE ARTS: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePRESCOTT PARK ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureSEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE: $12,000 · Arts & CultureEXETER HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 · HealthSEACOAST PATHWAYS: $40,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthSEEDS OF FAITH INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesThe Chase Home: $20,000 · Human ServicesKNIGHTS TRUST INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropySwim Across America Inc: $11,000 · PhilanthropyThe Morse Foundation: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS IN ACTION: $8,000 · Philanthropy
Education$3,831,600Other$1,231,851Employment$1,049,279Arts & Culture$163,000Health$140,500Human Services$115,000Philanthropy$64,000

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 budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $2,100,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWORK: $1,049,279 over 6y, 96% of budgetBERWICK ACADEMY: $800,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWheaton College: $335,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEXETER HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $96,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of The Music Hall: $49,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEACOAST PATHWAYS: $40,000 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetARTS IN REACH - ENCOURAGING GROWTH THROUGH THE ARTS: $40,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetKNIGHTS TRUST INC: $35,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chase Home: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $16,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPortsmouth Historical Society: $15,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPRESCOTT PARK ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $12,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUNDALOW COMPANY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Morse Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS IN ACTION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS FOREVER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCross Roads House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYHEW: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMY BREAST CANCER SUPPORT: $500 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.

  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GOODWORK ↗
  • Who funds BERWICK ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Wheaton College ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
  • 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 PRESCOTT PARK ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
  • Who funds GUNDALOW COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds The Morse Foundation ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charita…A Caring Community IncRosamond Thaxter Foun…Gateway Fund 7522-Xxx…Foundation for Seacoa…Eastern Bank Foundati…Newburyport Bank Char…Madelaine G Vonweber …Bangor Savings Bank F…Macdonald Family Foun…Abraham Burtman Chari…Exeter Hospital Inc
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH45× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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