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The Schultz 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.

$101k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$283kAnimals$54kYouth Development$48kHuman Services$43kCrime & Legal$36kEducation$29kArts & Culture$24kCommunity Improvement$12k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$249k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Marin General Hospital Foundation$56,000
Scouting AmericaMarin Council$10,000
Pacific Legal Foundation$6,000
Center for Domestic Peace$5,000
Marin Humane Society$4,000
Wildcare$4,000
Marin Symphony Foundation$4,000
Canine Companions For Independence$3,000
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$3,000
Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation$2,000
Scripps College$2,000
Side By Side$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $3k → 9%Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $3k → 8%Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $3k → 8%Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $3k → 8%Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $3k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $5k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $4k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $4k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $4k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $4k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $4k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$519k · 14 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$519k
$10k

Still filing today

79%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalAnimalsOther

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

  • MG
    MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $271k · revenue +243%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 35 MARIN COUNCIL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +173%
  • PL
    Pacific Legal Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • SA
    Scouting AmericaMarin Council
    one grant, 2025 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

3
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
4
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
5
Marin Open Studios

Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…

Arts & Culture
6
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

7
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
8
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
9
Berkeley Endowment Management Company

The primary purpose of Berkeley Endowment Management Company ("BEMCO") is to allocate, invest, and manage the general endowment pool of the University of California, Berkeley Foundation ("UCBF").

Education
10
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
11
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
12
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marin Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Legal Foundation. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $270,500 · HealthMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONSide By Side — $12,000 · HealthBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 35 MARIN COUNCIL — $38,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 35…WILDCARE — $24,000 · OtherWILDCAREMarin Symphony Foundation — $24,000 · OtherMarin Symphony Foundatio…Individual grant recipient — $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…Scouting AmericaMarin Council — $10,000 · OtherScouting AmericaMarin Co…Phi Delta Theta Education Foundatio — $5,000 · OtherCenter for Domestic Peace — $25,000 · Human ServicesCenter for…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $18,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COM…Pacific Legal Foundation — $36,000 · Crime & LegalMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $24,000 · AnimalsKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION — $12,000 · EducationScripps College — $12,000 · Education
Health$282,500Other$113,000Human Services$49,000Crime & Legal$36,000Animals$24,000Education$24,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $270,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 35 MARIN COUNCIL — $38,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Domestic Peace — $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILDCARE — $24,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetScripps College — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSide By Side — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 35 MARIN COUNCIL
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation
  • Who funds Center for Domestic Peace
  • Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds WILDCARE
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Scripps College
  • Who funds Side By Side
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE 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.

Marin Community FoundationCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Schultz 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Schultz Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Schultz Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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