Schultz Family Private Foundation
The Schultz Family Private Foundation is a small private foundation dedicated to supporting charitable, educational, religious, and scientific causes. Its mission reflects a commitment to enhancing community welfare, particularly through grants to religious organizations, human services, and community development initiatives. The foundation primarily serves various nonprofit organizations, focusing on those that provide essential services such as food assistance, education, and support for vulnerable populations. While it operates mainly in Illinois, its funding also extends to select organizations in other states.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A small-to-midsize Illinois-based charity—often a church or local human-service organization—seeking general operating support and with demonstrated local impact or community ties.
Good Fit
- • Organization operates in Illinois, ideally in the Lake Bluff/Lake County–Chicago metro area.
- • Religious congregations, local human-service providers, community centers, or education nonprofits.
- • Requests for general operating support or broadly defined program support rather than tightly restricted project funding.
- • A clear local presence or existing relationships in the foundation’s service area.
Geography
Giving is heavily concentrated in Illinois: roughly 95% of dollars went to in-state recipients in the latest observed year, with most grants flowing to the Chicago–Lake County area despite a few out-of-state awards.
Recipient Variety
The foundation funded many distinct independent recipients (33 in 2024 and 40 in 2022), spanning churches, human-service groups, education, and community organizations, even though a handful of recipients received larger shares of dollars.
New Applicants
Direct evidence shows 17 new grantees in 2024 (about 52% of that year’s recipients), and the filing lists a rolling submission approach with no required form and a clear mailing/phone contact, supporting a strong likelihood that unfamiliar local applicants can gain access.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
