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The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation

$28k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
8
Organizations funded FY2022
25%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2022
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 20
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
5

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 25% of the organizations The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
AnimalsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20228$28k25%
FY202120$59k60%
FY202018$26kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Health$27kPhilanthropy$24kAnimals$17kYouth Development$16kFood & Nutrition$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kArts & Culture$3kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSixdegreesorg: $11,260 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNourishing Hope: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShedd Aquarium Society: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPilot Light: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $2,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Junior League of Chicago Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMorris Animal Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,128 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Disaster Philanthropy Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Animal Nations Dba Redrover: $570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Philharmonic Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Giving Kitchen Initiative Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget29 Acres Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJust Keep Livin Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Todd & Stephanie Schnick 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.

About The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation

How much does The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation give?
The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $27,550 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Health (24%), Philanthropy (22%), Animals (15%).
Who are The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Sixdegreesorg ($11k), Nourishing Hope ($5k), Shedd Aquarium Society ($5k).
Does The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation based?
The Todd & Stephanie Schnick Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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