· Private foundation
The Schulman Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $425k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $50,000 |
| TALBOT HOSPICE | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS | $30,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS | $25,000 |
| SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHANNEL MARKER | $25,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH | $15,000 |
| CLAREMONT INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| CASA OF THE EASTERN SHORE | $15,000 |
| MANHATTAN INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
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, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +58% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 11 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- PRPacific Research Institute For Public Policy7× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +62%
- CCCHESAPEAKE CHAMBER MUSIC INC T/A CHESAPEAKE MUSIC5× · 2019–2023 · $88k · revenue +14%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -45%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS INone grant, 2023 · $5k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +39%
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.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
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 american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.
The objectives and goals of the institute shall be to receive and administer funds for the purpose of providing and supporting educational programs for lawyers, legal academics, and members of the judiciary, conferences and publications…
The phoenix center was established in 1998 with a mission to provide independent assessments of the economic and material implications of regulatory and economic policy in the u.s. and abroad. to achieve this goal, the center supports…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Inform and improve public policy in california through independent, objective, nonpartisan research
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy and the most unlike its peers is Bighorn Institute. 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 43 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 — 2% 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.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 84 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 Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHAMBER MUSIC INC T/A CHESAPEAKE MUSIC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL MARKER INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Palm Springs ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds Criminal Justice Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds Palm Springs International Piano Competition ↗
- Who funds PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HEALTH LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CYSTINOSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
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: The Llandaff Family Trust · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · The Michael and Nancy Klein Foundation Inc · Van Strum Foundation 8833023 · The Wyman Family Foundation Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Schulman Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music — 2% 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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