· Private foundation
Evelyn D Schmidt Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $184k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Meals on Wheels on Durham Inc | $22,500 |
| Emmanuel Food Pantry | $20,000 |
| Senior PharmAssist | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Urban Ministries of Durham | $15,000 |
| Families Moving Forward | $15,000 |
| Durham Rescue Mission | $15,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $12,500 |
| John Avery Boys and Girls Club | $12,000 |
| Durham Striders Youth Association | $12,000 |
| Emily Krzyzewski Family Life Center | $10,000 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center | $10,000 |
| Animal Protection Society of Durham | $10,000 |
| North Carolina Central University | $5,000 |
| Triangle Comunity Foundation | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 11% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +4%
SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +23%- DSDurham Striders Youth Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $88k · revenue +288% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- BMBLACK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $13k
- TCThresholde Clubhouseone grant, 2020 · $5k
- WPWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
PORCH-Durham works in partnership with a variety of Durham county nonprofit and community based organizations to identify children and families most at risk of hunger. We provide shelf-stable foods from our monthly neighborhood food…
Build strong communities by developing, managing, and advocating for permanent affordable housing that provides durham residents with low to moderate incomes a stable foundation for achieving economic security.
Stepup partners with adults to transform their lives through training in life and employment skills.
Help Durham residents love neighbors.
Dcia organizes communities of diverse faiths to work for racial justice, social equity, and human dignity.
Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home away from home for seriously ill patients, their family members, and caregivers from throughout north carolina and beyond.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.
To improve outcomes for students in the Durham community by providing programs focused on academic success, social-emotional well being, and leadership.
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
To promote real estate by providing ethical, professional services to its members and consumers seeking real estate information
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC ↗
- Who funds Durham Striders Youth Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds STUDENT U ↗
- Who funds DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds EMANUEL FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds Open Table Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministries of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University · Fox Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Forest At Duke Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Duke Energy Foundation · Morgan Creek Foundation · Durham Congregations in Action
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Evelyn D Schmidt Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evelyn D Schmidt Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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