The Schowalter Foundation is a Kansas-based Mennonite philanthropic foundation formed in 1954 from the estate of Jacob A. Schowalter of Newton, Kansas.
Initially funded with an estate of $1,157,000,[2] the foundation's assets reached $10,298,000 in 2003 ranking among the top thirty Kansas foundations.
[3] Income from the foundation's assets are used for relief work, training of missionaries and ministers and promotion of peace.
Grants totaled $425,950 in 2003.
[4] The foundation was originally overseen by two representatives from each of the large Kansas Mennonite denominations: General Conference Mennonite Church, (Old) Mennonite Church and Church of God in Christ, Mennonite.