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Arthur B Schultz Foundation

Lander, WY · EIN 95-3980014. Reported 118 grants totalling $1,237,197 to 57 organizations across tax years 2021-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$1,237,197granted, 2021-2023
57organizations funded
64%of grantees funded again the next year
$6,191,317assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Arthur B Schultz Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $12,500; the smallest was $60 and the largest $125,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
9 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
15 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
27 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
62 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Continental Divide TrailGolden, CO$132,500212022
Northern Kenya FundBozeman, MT$97,000532023
Possibility LabsSan Francisco, CA$56,500112023
The Girls Foundation of TanzaniaPortland, ME$47,600432023
Creative Action InstituteIpswich, MA$46,300332023
Young Strong Mothers FoundationMorogoro$43,150632023
The Action FoundationNairobi$42,500332023
Street Business SchoolBoulder, CO$40,000332023
Girls to Lead AfricaKihiihi$38,100532023
Girl Up InitiativeSanta Barbara, CA$37,500332023
JifindisheUSA River$36,500432023
AkirachixNairobi$35,000332023
Bulogo Women's GroupKampala$35,000332023
OmawaMoshi$32,464432023
AscatedGuatemala City$29,500332023
Katalemwa Cheshire HouseKampala$27,000222023
Nurturing MindsNewtonville, MA$25,900222023
Amplify Girls IncNew York, NY$25,000222023
Friends of Transitions GuatemalaMill Valley, CA$25,000222023
Gulu Persons Disabled NetworkGulu$25,000222023
Empowered GirlsArusha$23,600532023
A Leg to Stand onNew York City, NY$22,500222022
KomeraJamaica Plain, MA$22,500112021
Limitless HorizonsSanta Cruz, CA$22,500222022
Abaana Community Outreach AfricaKampala$20,000222023
Child Support - Take My Friends to SchoolMbeya City$20,000222022
Victoria's Giving FoundationArusha$19,350432023
With Women KisobokaCambridge, MA$17,500222022
Kyaninga Child Development CenterFort Portal$15,000222022
Autonomia Libertad En MovimientoVicente Estrada Cajigal$14,500222023
CbidoKaragwe$11,000112023
American RiversWashington, DC$10,000112021
Cielo De AmorEugene, OR$10,000112021
Gulu Disabled Persons NetworkGulu$10,000112021
Kibera Girls Soccer AcademySt Paul, MN$10,000112021
Nevada NordicIncline Village, NV$10,000222022
Transitions FoundationMill Valley, CA$10,000112021
Beneficial ReturnsSan Francisco, CA$8,579112021
Katalema Cheshire HouseKampala$8,030112021
Aco AfricaKampala$8,000112021
With Women KisobokaArusha$8,000112023
CibdoKaragwe$7,800212022
Panda InitiativeDar Es Salaam$6,000112023
Untours FoundationMedia, PA$6,000112023
AdisaSantiago Atitlan$5,060222022
Black Women's Wealth AllianceMinneapolis, MN$5,000112021
Matsentralen NorgeOslo$5,000112022
Southern Capital ProjectLittle Rock, AR$5,000112021
Nasjonal Foreningen for FolkehelsenOslo$3,500112021
Global Giving - Dyslexia KenyaWashington, DC$3,048112021
Lander Nordic Ski AssociationLander, WY$3,000332023
Grapevine - Social Good FundRichmond, CA$2,682112021
Kyaninga Development CenterFort Portal$2,500112023
Thousand CurrentsOakland, CA$1,534112021
Chelsea's FundLander, WY$1,000112021
Gillette Soccer ClubGillette, WY$1,000112023
Apple Valley SchoolLander, WY$500112021

30 of 57 (53%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 64%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 41 grants to individuals totalling $352,280 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 42 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
10 grants
Education
8 grants
Recreation & Sports
6 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
International Affairs
3 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Employment
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202140$348,797$10,000
202247$500,750$10,000
202331$387,650$11,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 24% of this one's giving went to organizations in Colorado. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Colorado
$172K
California
$164K
Massachusetts
$112K
Montana
$97K
Maine
$48K
New York
$48K
Minnesota
$15K
District of Columbia
$13K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Colorado.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Arthur B Schultz Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1570, Lander, WY, 82520. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 95-3980014 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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