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John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family 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.

$729k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$115,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 12
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc 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.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$624k44%
FY202411$69k0%
FY202310$68k30%
FY202212$81k25%
FY202112$70k8%
FY202012$81kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$280kHuman Services$258kEducation$144kFood & Nutrition$110kHousing & Shelter$80kScience & Tech$70kHealth$46kEmployment$16kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($445k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPrinceton Symphony Orchestra Inc: $160,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $100,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSomerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: $75,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Princeton: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomanspace Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc

How much does John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc give?
John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $729,120 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Human Services (23%), Education (13%).
Who are John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc ($160k), TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ($100k), Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc ($80k).
Does John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Where is John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc based?
John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 29 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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