· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $596k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Princeton Symphony Orchestra | $115,000 |
| Greater Somerset County YMCA | $60,000 |
| The Metropolitan Opera | $56,000 |
| Massachusetts Inst of Technology | $55,000 |
| Mercer Street Friends | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| Trustees of Univ of Pennsylvania | $50,000 |
| Rescue Mission of Trenton | $50,000 |
| Academy of Nat Sciences Drexel U | $50,000 |
| Trenton Area Soup Kitchen | $50,000 |
| Springpoint Foundation | $40,000 |
| Princeton Medical Center Foundation | $25,000 |
| Stonebridge Employee Appreciat Fund | $10,120 |
| Younity | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $160k · revenue +87%
TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +58%
Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- MHMinnesota Horticultural Societyone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- MIMassachuset Institute of Technologyone grant, 2020 · $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.
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How this is measured
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 29 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 Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMANSPACE INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John P Schmidt and Dorothy E Schmidt Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Womanspace Inc: 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
- Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: 13% of income from government
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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