Illinois · Private foundation
Arthur J Schmitt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $880k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Arthur J Schmitt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $805k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $775k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $765k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $790k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $729k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $660k | 18% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $696k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette University | $555,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Depaul University | $540,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $507,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund | $455,000 | 6 | 2% |
| LINK Unlimited Scholars | $455,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Benedictine University | $412,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Dominican University | $410,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of St Francis | $405,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lewis University | $395,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Highsight | $360,000 | 7 | 6% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette University | $555,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Depaul University | $540,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $507,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund | $455,000 | 6 | 2% |
| LINK Unlimited Scholars | $455,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Benedictine University | $412,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Dominican University | $410,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of St Francis | $405,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lewis University | $395,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Highsight | $360,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Saint Xavier University | $95,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($610k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Arthur J Schmitt Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Arthur J Schmitt Foundation
- How much does Arthur J Schmitt Foundation give?
- Arthur J Schmitt Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $880,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Arthur J Schmitt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Recreation & Sports (9%), Youth Development (0%).
- Who are Arthur J Schmitt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Marquette University ($555k), Depaul University ($540k), Loyola University of Chicago ($508k).
- Does Arthur J Schmitt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arthur J Schmitt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arthur J Schmitt Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Arthur J Schmitt Foundation based?
- Arthur J Schmitt Foundation is based in IL.
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