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John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$571k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.3MReligion$545kInternational$354kArts & Culture$301kEmployment$264kEducation$225kPhilanthropy$135kYouth Development$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $137k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $381k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC$25,000
COTS INC$25,000
MUSIC THAT MATTERS INC$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC$20,000
FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC$12,000
NORTHEAST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC$10,000
APPLETON COMMUNITY MUSIC INC$10,000
US VENTURE ASSOCIATES CARING TOGETHER FUND INC$10,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $4k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $3k → 22%FOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $5k → 7%FOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $5k → 7%SOAR FOX CITIES INC: $5k → 7%SOAR FOX CITIES INC: $5k → 7%FOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $5k → 7%LEAVEN INC: $5k → 6%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $20k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $20k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $20k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $20k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $20k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $15k → 7%COMMUNITY BENEFIT TREE INC: $5k → 7%COMMUNITY BENEFIT TREE INC: $3k → 7%COMMUNITY BENEFIT TREE INC: $2k → 7%COMMUNITY BENEFIT TREE INC: $1k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD

Beyond the US: 35% of all-years giving ($1.2M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Kenya$1.2M · 3 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 35% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 28 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
15

Total granted

$3.3M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-1%

Still filing today

82%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • KW
    KENYA WORKS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $241k · revenue +137%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF APPLETON LIBRARY INCORPORATED
    3× · 2022–2024 · $206k · revenue +19%
  • CI
    COTS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +14%
  • LI
    LEAVEN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -4%
  • TM
    TROUT MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +244%
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
Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley

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…

Philanthropy
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
4
Association of Washington Cities

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…

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5
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
6
American Water Works Association

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.

Public Benefit
7
Toxic-Free Future F/K/a Washington Toxics Coalition

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…

Environment
8
Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement
9
The Vermont Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
10
Minnesota Forest Industries Inc

To inform and educate the public about forest industries practices in minnesota.

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11
Npr Foundation

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…

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12
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
29/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VICTORY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (VICODEC): $1,234,497 · OtherVICTORY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (VICODEC)FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $540,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $130,000 · OtherTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC+20 more: $169,500 · Other+20 moreKENYA WORKS INC: $240,625 · EducationKENYA WORKS IN…FRIENDS OF APPLETON LIBRARY INCORPORATED: $205,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF APP…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationRIVERVIEW GARDENS INC: $239,150 · EnvironmentRIVERVIEW…NORTHEAST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC: $42,500 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST…+4 more: $15,500 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC: $115,500 · PhilanthropyBASIC NEEDS GIVING PARTNERSHIP INC: $110,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $12,500 · PhilanthropyMUSIC THAT MATTERS INC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureFOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $42,060 · Arts & CultureAppleton Community Music Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $9,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $115,150 · Human ServicesFOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Benefit Tree Inc: $10,500 · Human ServicesSOAR FOX CITIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $6,500 · Human Services+2 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesCOTS INC: $120,000 · Housing & ShelterPILLARS INC: $22,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,073,997Education$447,125Environment$297,150Philanthropy$238,000Arts & Culture$171,060Human Services$165,150Housing & Shelter$145,000

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 budgetKENYA WORKS INC: $240,625 over 5y, 10% of budgetRIVERVIEW GARDENS INC: $239,150 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF APPLETON LIBRARY INCORPORATED: $205,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCOTS INC: $120,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC: $115,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $115,150 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBASIC NEEDS GIVING PARTNERSHIP INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMUSIC THAT MATTERS INC: $110,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetNORTHEAST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC: $42,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetFOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $42,060 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUS VENTURE ASSOCIATES CARING TOGETHER FUND INC: $40,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetVALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPILLARS INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Benefit Tree Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAppleton Community Music Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSOAR FOX CITIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREAT HEADWATERS TRAILS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAY-LAKES COUNCIL #635 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAVEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP THE ADDICTION FATALITY EPIDEMIC (SAFE) PROJECT US: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN HILLS WOMENS SHELTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEAMING INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGRISAFE NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDEN PEOPLEPLANET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Infant Welfare Circle Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

J J Keller Foundation…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Community Foundation …Green Bay Packers Fou…The Clarence Wallace …The Boldt Family Fund…Greater Green Bay Com…The William J and Bar…Oshkosh Corporation F…Theda and Tamblin Cla…Oshkosh Area Communit…Doug & Carla Salmon F…
J J Keller Foundation IncWI54.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
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    How do I get to John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundation 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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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