· Private foundation
The Schnabel 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
79% of The Schnabel Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to International Christian Concern Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Schnabel Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $60k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOSHUA HOUSE LIFE CENTERS | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CONCERN | $10,000 |
| LIGHT FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| INDIA NATIONAL INLAND MISSION | $5,000 |
| CRISIS AID INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GNBC INTERNATIONAL | $4,000 |
| ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES ANGLICAN | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL UNION MISSION | $1,000 |
| LAKESIDE REGIONAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| WINDOWS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICINTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC4× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +20%
- ODOpen Doors With Brother Andrew Inc4× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +42%
- GIGNBC INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION2× · 2019–2020 · $7k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF THE APOSTLES ANGLICANone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Religious
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ evangelism discipleship and church planting
Our mission is to carry out the commands of our Lord Jesus Christ to take the Good News of the gospel to the whole world teaching people to obey everything He commanded. We work among mostly low-literacy populations so we do this by…
Childrens Home and Ministry in India
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 International Christian Concern Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC ↗
- Who funds INDIA NATIONAL INLAND MISSION ↗
- Who funds Open Doors With Brother Andrew Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds GNBC INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds Window International Network ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Schnabel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schnabel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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