John F. Schultz and Company

 John F. Schultz and Company exists

  to win grant funding from foundation, corporate and government sources.

Funds provided by these grantors have helped many organizations

deliver new projects, pay for operations or build new faciliities,

furthering their goals and reaching their objectives.

The earliest John F. Schultz and Company clients

are proof of  the Company's value to nonprofits struggling to survive. 

Aperture Foundation 

One of the Company's first clients, Aperture Foundation, serves the arts as a sounding board for new photograpy. The work of young photographers and some of the medium's elder statesmen goes underappreciated, championed by a few connoisseurs.  Aperture stands alone as a world-renowned magazine and book publisher that champions  this work.   It is widely applauded by thought leaders in the visual arts for its insightful discussions and fine art quality reproduction. 

Aperture Foundation's mission is to  support photography as an art form.  But they had too little donor backing to survive and to build new programs. They needed outside funding to pursue their mission. They turned to arts foundations and the federal government in the form of the National Endowment for the Arts.  And they turned to John F. Schultz and Company to write and deliver the proposal.  Working with the executive director and a selection of photograpers, we won nearly $1million,  enough to cover their operations for three years.

 Sculptor

Another client was a sculptor who had had a successful one-person show at a New York gallery.  She also had a successful academic career, holding tenure at

a good state university in the Northeast.  But she wanted

to take the next step professionally and needed funding

for a year's sabbatical to produce sculptures for her next show. 

The National Endowment for the Arts offers money to individual artists.  They require a grant application,

including an essay, stating qualifications and need. 

After helping the artist gather the materials for her application, and writing the essay with her guidance,

John F. Schultz and Company submitted the proposal.  Within six months the artist was notified of a $25,000 grant, enough to pay her studio expenses for a year.  Over the subsequent year, our company maintained contact with the artist.  When the end of the sabbatical year arrived, we submitted a final report to the Endowment, as required, including a selection of photographs of  the work she had created.