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The Susan and Ford Schumann 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.

$5.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
127
Grants FY2025still arriving
28
States reached
$819k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$3.1MAnimals$1.5MScience & Tech$830kHealth$107kArts & Culture$73kPublic Benefit$60kEducation$53kReligion$46kOther$0
02FY2025 · 127 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k120 grants · $151k
  • $250k+7 grants · $5.3M
$900
Median grant
28
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$819,487
PETA$817,487
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$816,988
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$816,988
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$816,987
Individual grant recipient$816,987
WILDERNESS SOCIETY$410,994
GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,055
HOOVES AND PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE$4,600
ORPHAN ACRES$4,000
TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE$4,000
LITTLE LONGEARS MINIATURE DONKEY RESCUE$3,800
ANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION$3,750
ANIMAL'S ANGELS$3,500
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 (FY17–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ORPHAN ACRES: $10k → 16%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $1k → 14%SEEING EYE INC: $500 → 4%NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS ASSISTANCE: $500 → 42%ORPHAN ACRES: $9k → 16%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $750 → 14%NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS ASSISTANCE: $150 → 42%ORPHAN ACRES: $8k → 16%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $800 → 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $750 → 14%ORPHAN ACRES: $4k → 16%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $600 → 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $750 → 14%ORPHAN ACRES: $4k → 16%ORPHAN ACRES: $4k → 16%ORPHAN ACRES: $4k → 16%ORPHAN ACRES: $2k → 16%ORPHAN ACRES: $900 → 16%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER PHOENIX: $16k → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 7%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 7%WINDWALKERS: $1k → 6%WINDWALKERS: $500 → 6%SPENCE-CHAPIN: $200 → 17%SPENCE-CHAPIN: $100 → 17%SPENCE-CHAPIN: $100 → 17%SPENCE-CHAPIN: $100 → 17%SPENCE-CHAPIN: $100 → 17%SPENCE-CHAPIN: $100 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.0M · 211 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

211 repeat relationships — 122 still active in FY2025, 89 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

211
27

Total granted

$7.0M
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+11%

Still filing today

70%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentHealthInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    6× · 2017–2025 · $831k · revenue +202%
  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $830k · revenue +12%
  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $828k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • AJ
    Aspen Journalismgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +54%
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF JOY ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH CAREFREE
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -8%

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
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
2
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
3
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…

Animals
6
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
7
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
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Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
Nonhuman Rights Project Inc

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is the only civil rights organization in The United States dedicated solely to securing fundamental rights for nonhuman animals and the leading force in building a national and global nonhuman rights…

Animals
11
Four Paws International Inc

Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.

Animals
12
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morris Animal Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Horse Rescue. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Military Veterans SupportLocal Food System Organizat…Food Banks and PantriesCancer Support ServicesSenior Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%48%35–55yr16%43%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/177
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,388

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.

04the grantee network

169 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 169 of the 244 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)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
169/169
Grantees still filing
137/169
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $830,987 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $823,488 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $821,487 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $436,994 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY+12 more — $133,875 · EnvironmentIndividual grant recipient — $933,487 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…Individual grant recipient — $71,355 · OtherGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE — $60,640 · Other+93 more — $503,409 · Other+93 morePEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $827,987 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHIC…LIFESAVERS INC — $43,650 · Animals+50 more — $375,754 · Animals+50 moreTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $829,988 · InternationalTHE UNION OF C…+10 more — $45,165 · InternationalDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $42,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA — $18,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield Trust — $7,700 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $5,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $5,250 · Arts & CultureAspen Journalism — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTRUTHOUT — $4,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC — $3,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $3,500 · Arts & CultureORPHAN ACRES INC — $45,200 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $17,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $4,000 · Human ServicesPartnership With Native Americans — $3,500 · Human Services+3 more — $5,250 · Human ServicesWilliams College — $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $10,000 · EducationMONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $4,500 · EducationMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE — $3,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $2,500 · Education
Environment$3,046,831Other$1,568,891Animals$1,247,391International$875,153Arts & Culture$104,450Human Services$87,950Education$50,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $830,987 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $829,988 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $827,987 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $823,488 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $821,487 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $436,994 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN ACRES INC — $45,200 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetLIFESAVERS INC — $43,650 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $42,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $35,300 over 9y, 0.1% of budget350ORG — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAnimals' Angels Incorporated — $29,450 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetWilliams College — $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC — $22,400 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HORSES INC — $21,750 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $20,044 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSPEAK UP FOR HORSES — $19,650 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA — $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $16,825 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $14,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc — $14,210 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $13,550 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $12,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $12,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC — $11,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $11,725 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $11,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $10,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $10,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $10,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY — $10,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFront Range Equine Rescue — $9,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLOST MEADOWS MULE REFUGE — $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Humane Society — $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS — $8,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $8,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $8,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust — $7,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEquine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary — $7,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDEMOCRACY 21 EDUCATION FUND — $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ORPHAN ACRES INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFESAVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds 350ORG ↗
  • Who funds Animals' Angels Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPEAK UP FOR HORSES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals 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.

PC Fund for Animals C…Surendra and Karen Gu…Bradford Family Found…Seckinger Foundation …Joyce a Ward Foundati…Paula Knickerbocker F…Farrell Family Founda…Amg Charitable Gift F…John R Oltman Charita…The Gerald B Shreiber…The Patricia Florence…The J R Stein Family …
PC Fund for Animals Charitable TrWY65.5× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · Farrell Family Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · John R Oltman Charitable Foundation · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust · The J R Stein Family Foundation (F/K/A the Stein Family Fund)

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 Susan and Ford Schumann 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
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no gov · 150%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Susan and Ford Schumann 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 244 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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