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Bob & Stacy Schmetterer Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bob & Stacy Schmetterer Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$200
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$31kAnimals$30kCommunity Improvement$16kArts & Culture$15kHealth$1kYouth Development$1kEducation$1kRecreation & Sports$750Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
1
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPCAHC$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $250 → 13%KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $250 → 13%KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $250 → 13%KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $200 → 13%KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $200 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62k · 7 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$62k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
-11%

Still filing today

71%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NY
    NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2022 · $16k · revenue +132%
  • OR
    OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +16%
  • KC
    KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • ST
    SAIL TO PREVAIL
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -11%
  • IS
    IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +15%
  • TP
    THE PROTESTANT CONGREGATION OF OCEAN REEF INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Okauchee Lake Sailing School Inc

Encourage, develop, promote and foster amateur yachting in the island lakes of the united states by providing sailing instruction.

Recreation & Sports
2
Santa Cruz Sailing Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The Sailing Foundation of New York Inc

The foundation supports amateur sports participation in competitive sailing through clinics, coaching and other educational activities. the foundation also provides financial assistance to deserved athletes competing in regional, national…

Recreation & Sports
4
The San Francisco Yacht Club

The organization is an exempt social club under irc section 501(c)(7), whose program service activities are organized and operated substantially for the pleasure & recreation of its members. all programs of the club are related to the…

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5
Old Cove Yacht Club Inc

To encourage the sport of yachting and to promote the science of seamanship and navigation.

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6
American Yacht Club Foundation

Mission Statement To promote, develop, and maintain sailing education activities; Continued on attached statement

Arts & Culture
7
Northeast Harbor Fleet

The purpose of the northeast harbor fleet is to provide racing & cruising activities serving 427 members in northeast harbor, maine

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8
American Sailboat Racing Foundation Inc

The American Sailboat Racing Foundation's mission is to raise the level of excellence among amateur American sailors with the ultimate goal of preparing them to compete in national and international competitions.

Recreation & Sports
9
Youngstown Junior Sailing Foundation Inc

Coaching children in fundamental sailing skills such as safe boating, seamanship, dinghy sailing, sailboat racing, and boat maintenance.

Recreation & Sports
10
Chicago Yacht Club

Chicago yacht club's mission is to encourage and promote the comingling of members through yachting by providing recreation activities, classes and regattas for members and their guests.

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11
Marco Island Yacht Club Inc

To bind its members together by a common objective to provide leisure and recreation.

Recreation & Sports
12
The New York Yacht Club

To attract and bring together a dedicated group in yachting and naval members to share and foster their interest in yachting and yacht racing;(continue on schedule o)

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,641 · PhilanthropyOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCOCEAN REEF TRAP NEUTER RELEASE: $25,500 · OtherOCEAN REEF TRAP NEUTER RELEASE+5 more: $2,200 · Other+5 moreOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureOCEAN REEF CULTURA…IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureIYRS SCHOOL OF TEC…NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $15,500 · Community ImprovementNEW YORK YACHT CLU…FRIENDS OF THE DOG PARK AT OCEAN REEF INC: $4,000 · AnimalsSAIL TO PREVAIL: $1,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $250 · HealthKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,150 · Human Services
Philanthropy$30,641Other$27,700Arts & Culture$16,000Community Improvement$15,500Animals$4,000Health$1,250Human Services$1,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,641 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DOG PARK AT OCEAN REEF INC: $4,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAIL TO PREVAIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL LEVIN LONE SOLDIER FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Holmes Family Fou…Ocean Reef Community …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Holmes Family Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Holmes Family Foundation Inc · Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bob & Stacy Schmetterer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bob & Stacy Schmetterer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bob & Stacy Schmetterer Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bob & Stacy Schmetterer Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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