· Private foundation
The Schumacher Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 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 FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHLANDS COUNTY YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $10,000 |
| RIDGE AREA ARC | $10,000 |
| SEBRING MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $5,000 |
| AG ANGELS | $5,000 |
| NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH AND MISSION | $5,000 |
| LITTLE LAMBS INC A JOHN & EILEEN SA | $3,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRY PROJECT | $3,000 |
| CHOICES FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS INC | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSUEM OF HIGHLANDS | $3,000 |
| HIGHLANDS LAKESIDE THEATRE | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–26, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- RARIDGE AREA ARC INC4× · 2021–2026 · $32k · revenue +23%
- AAAG ANGELS INC3× · 2021–2026 · $12k · revenue +18%
- SMSEBRING MEALS ON WHEELS INC3× · 2018–2026 · $12k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- STSAMARITANS TOUCH CENTERone grant, 2025 · $5k
- HMHOPE MINISTRY INCone grant, 2023 · $2k
- HCHIGHLANDS COUNTY AG-VENTURE INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +2%
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.
To be human angels for animals, advocating for their lives, humane treatment, spay and neuter education and responsible ownership. As a foster based organization save as many dogs as possible who are in jeopardy of euthanasia at Highlands…
The rescue, rehabilitation and sanctuary of abused, neglected, abandoned and unwanted farm animals.
To provide assistance such as food, clothing and shelter to families and individuals in need
Rescue and Rehabilitation of Equines
To provide nutrition programs (including meals) on site and home delivery, health education, information and referral outreach, in home registery services, employment and volunteer placement for senior citizens.
Daystar Hope Center of Pasco County, Inc. provides food, clothing and household items to families in need.
To provide transitional housing for homeless individuals and families, and assist them in obtaining employment and long-term housing.
Provide rescue and health services for horses until they can be placed in adoption or live forever at the sanctuary.
Therapeutic riding program for children and adults with disabilities including Palsy, Spina Bifida, PTSD, Autism and ADHD.
Helping animals in need by providing refuge and fostering healing through building connections between animals and humans.
We provide Hot food to those that are in need. We prepare serve and deliver meals to those who are not mobile.
Rescue and rehabilitate horses who are in a difficult situation and then re-train and re-home the horses to an environment that allows them to be successful partners with their owners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Horses Equine Activities and the most unlike its peers is Choices Family Resource Centers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 23 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 RIDGE AREA ARC INC ↗
- Who funds AG ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds SEBRING MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CHOICES FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS TOUCH CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS COUNTY AG-VENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HORSES EQUINE ACTIVITIES ↗
- Who funds Sebring Historical Society 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: Thakkar Family Foundation · The Palms Foundation of Sebring Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Schumacher 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.
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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