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The Schmetterling 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $750,000 |
| CALUMET COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $500,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $200,000 |
| ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $50,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| IBCA INDIANA ALL STARS INC | $40,000 |
| GREENWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC | $35,000 |
| ST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH INDIANAPOLIS INC | $32,000 |
| AUSTIN ZOO | $25,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS CABLE ACCESS CENTER | $20,000 |
| GEM SESSIONS FOUNDATION INC | $19,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS CABLE ACCESS CENTER | $10,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS CABLE ACCESS CENTER | $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 (FY23–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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 +15% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- CCCALUMET COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH4× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +131%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2022–2025 · $520k · revenue +21%
- IZIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $248k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- IAINTO ACTION RECOVERY INCone grant, 2024 · $750k · revenue 0%
- AIATHLETES IN ACTION SPORTS COMPLEX AND RETREATone grant, 2019 · $50k
- SRSPORTS REACH INCone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue 0%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Ibca Indiana All Stars 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.
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 38 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 74 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds CALUMET COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds INTO ACTION RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONS OF COACHES INC ↗
- Who funds IBCA INDIANA ALL STARS INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CABLE ACCESS CTR INC D/B/A COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SPORTS REACH INC ↗
- Who funds LAST PRISONER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SIGMA ALPHA MU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Literacy Center of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds PHILMONT STAFF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PACERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Servant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 organization The Schmetterling 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.
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