· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF YORK AND YORK CO | $30,000 |
| ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| YORK COLLEGE OF PA | $20,000 |
| YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER | $20,000 |
| YORK HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| APPELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF | $8,000 |
| YORK COUNTY LIBRARIES | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -39% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YCYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +20%
- YCYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER4× · 2018–2021 · $80k · revenue +120%
- YHYORK HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- YAYORK ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $20k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER YORKone grant, 2017 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 21 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 YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John Schmidt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Schmidt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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