· Private foundation
John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $381k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $100,000 |
| RIVERVIEW GARDENS INC | $65,650 |
| VICTORY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (VICODEC) | $64,497 |
| KENYA WORKS INC | $50,600 |
| BASIC NEEDS GIVING PARTNERSHIP INC | $50,000 |
| TROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC | $50,000 |
| COTS INC | $25,000 |
| MUSIC THAT MATTERS INC | $25,000 |
| VALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC | $20,000 |
| FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC | $12,000 |
| APPLETON COMMUNITY MUSIC INC | $10,000 |
| NORTHEAST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| US VENTURE ASSOCIATES CARING TOGETHER FUND INC | $10,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 65% of grant dollars ($2.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 35% that went abroad ($1.2M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 35% of all-years giving ($1.2M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- KWKENYA WORKS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $241k · revenue +137%
- FOFRIENDS OF APPLETON LIBRARY INCORPORATED3× · 2022–2024 · $206k · revenue +19%
- CICOTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +6%
Funded once
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicagoone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +14%
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -36%- TMTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +244%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
As a national leader in environmental health research and advocacy, toxic- free future uses the power of science, education, and activism, to drive strong laws and corporate responsibility that protect the health of all people and the…
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
To inform and educate the public about forest industries practices in minnesota.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Infant Welfare Circle Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KENYA WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF APPLETON LIBRARY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THAT MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BASIC NEEDS GIVING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds US VENTURE ASSOCIATES CARING TOGETHER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PILLARS INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Benefit Tree Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Appleton Community Music Inc ↗
- Who funds SOAR FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT HEADWATERS TRAILS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BAY-LAKES COUNCIL #635 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds LEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds STOP THE ADDICTION FATALITY EPIDEMIC (SAFE) PROJECT US ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: J J Keller Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · The Boldt Family Fund Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · The William J and Barbara a Schmidt Family Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Doug & Carla Salmon Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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