· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k120 grants · $151k
- $250k+7 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $819,487 |
| PETA | $817,487 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $816,988 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED6× · 2017–2025 · $831k · revenue +202%
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $830k · revenue +12%- PFPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $828k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- AJAspen Journalismgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +54%
- OLOUR LADY OF JOY ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH CAREFREEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUEone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -8%
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.
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.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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…
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.
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…
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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…
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.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
How this is measured
169 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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: 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)
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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