· Private foundation
The Schram 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAYTON HISTORY | $125,000 |
| BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE | $50,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ST MARTIN OF TOURS | $21,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| THINK HOPE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $5,000 |
| BIG HEART HARVEST (JOHN PAUL KASPEROWICZ) | $5,000 |
| SISTERS OF LIFE | $2,500 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES | $1,500 |
| MICHENER ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION (AFSP) | $1,000 |
| LEGACY OF LIFE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +19%- PAPLAYHOUSE ARTISTS4× · 2021–2024 · $96k · revenue +17%
- SBST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CLCAROLYN L FARRELL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -14%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +74%- TMThe MHE Research Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +179%
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.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The mission of the wistar institute is to marshal the talents of outstanding scientists through a highly enabled culture of biomedical collaboration and innovation in order to solve some of the world's most challenging and important…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 29 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 DAYTON HISTORY ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds PLAYHOUSE ARTISTS ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLYN L FARRELL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The MHE Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds DKMS ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S PLACE ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Schram Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schram Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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