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John Schmidt Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
84% of John Schmidt Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to York County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year John Schmidt Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $133k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF YORK AND YORK CO | $30,000 |
| YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER | $20,000 |
| ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| YORK COLLEGE OF PA | $20,000 |
| YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| YORK HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| APPELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF | $8,000 |
| YORK COUNTY LIBRARIES | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against -39% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- YCYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER4× · 2018–2021 · $80k · revenue +120%
- YCYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +20%
- YHYORK HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER YORKone grant, 2017 · $20k
- YAYORK ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The york county bar association is a non-profit professional membership association of attorneys and judges. it exists to serve the needs of the lawyers, judges and public of york county. the association and its members have dedicated…
York hospital is a premier community teaching hospital providing quality, cost-effective health care services strongly supporting excellence in education, and offering essential services without regard for an individual's ability to pay.
The mission of york university is the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge. a community of faculty, students and staff are committed to academic freedom, social justice, accessible education and collegial self-governance. york university…
With an unrelenting focus on academic excellence, the york academy regional charter school's mission is to challenge students in a diverse learning environment that opens doors for growth, opportunity and global citizenship.
The york county convention and visitors bureau, inc. (the bureau) plans and promotes programs designed to stimulate and increase the volume of tourist, visitor, vacation and convention business within york county, pennsylvania.
To utilize charitable funds to strengthen and improve the york community for all its citizens
To support educational, cultural, religious and charitable activities.
Leading the York County region to become the premier place to live, work, and conduct business in the Carolinas.
The ycs foundation's mission is to raise and connect funding to benefit the schools and ultimately our community.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
To receive private gifts, bequests, and donations, and to account for, manage and help appreciate monies or property submitted to the foundation to benefit and advance york technical college by supporting programs and activities of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is York Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 21 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 YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds YORK HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE YORK ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENNON ORGANIZATION ↗
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: The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation · White Rose Leadership Institute · Kinsley Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · York County Community Foundation · The Stewart Foundation · Russell E & Eleanor B Horn Foundati · United Way of York County · Powder Mill Foundation · The Hodges Family Foundation Inc · York County Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc · The W Dale Brougher Foundation
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 Schmidt 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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