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Juanita E Schmeeckle Charitable Trust at a glance

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Juanita E Schmeeckle Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$228k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
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 2025.

Health$2.5MPhilanthropy$589kHousing & Shelter$515kArts & Culture$251kHuman Services$238kCommunity Improvement$177kYouth Development$120kFood & Nutrition$78kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Habitat for Humanity$80,000
Twin Valley Council Boy Scouts of America$41,907
Martin County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition$24,300
Lutheran Social Services of MN$15,000
Fairmont Area Kinship$15,000
Action 169$15,000
Project 1590$15,000
Heaven's Table Food Shelf$11,200
Lakeview Methodist Health Care Center$10,930
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Let's Go Fishing: $22k → 9%Lutheran Social Services of MN: $15k → 14%Fairmont Area Kinship: $15k → 11%Cairgivers Response Effort & Service Team: $6k → 11%Fairmont Area Kinship Inc: $2k → 11%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 14 repeat orgs$479k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
19

Total granted

$3.5M
$453k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+23%

Still filing today

71%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • AT
    APPLE TREE DENTAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +65%
  • FO
    FAIRMONT OPERA HOUSE INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $217k · revenue +75% · 27% of their budget
  • P1
    PROJECT 1590 INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +128% · 76% of their budget

Funded once

  • FF
    Families First of Minnesota
    one grant, 2020 · $135k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • UB
    Upward Bound 5th St Express
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
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
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
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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4
Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
5
Minnesota Pharmacists Association

Serving minnesota pharmacists to advance patient care.

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6
Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc

Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.

Community Improvement
7
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
8
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
9
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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10
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
11
Association of Minnesota Counties

The association of minnesota counties is a voluntary non-partisan statewide organization that assists the state's 87 counties in providing effective county governance to the people of minnesota.

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12
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Caregivers Response Effort & Servic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 38 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APPLE TREE DENTAL: $2,330,788 · OtherAPPLE TREE DENTALMankato Area Foundation: $439,201 · OtherMankato Area FoundationHabitat for Humanity of Martin and Faribault Counties: $270,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of Martin and Faribault CountiesHabitat for Humanity: $210,000 · OtherHabitat for HumanityFamilies First of Minnesota: $135,000 · Other+19 more: $466,426 · Other+19 moreFAIRMONT OPERA HOUSE INC: $217,095 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $10,733 · Arts & CulturePROJECT 1590 INC: $155,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $18,220 · Community ImprovementSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyMARTIN COUNTY SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION COALITION: $76,419 · HealthLAKEVIEW METHODIST HEALTH CARE CENTER: $10,930 · HealthHEAVENS TABLE FOOD SHELF: $77,773 · Food & NutritionLets Go Fishing: $21,942 · Human ServicesFAIRMONT AREA KINSHIP INC: $16,500 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $15,000 · Human ServicesCAREGIVERS RESPONSE EFFORT & SERVIC: $6,000 · Human Services
Other$3,851,415Arts & Culture$227,828Community Improvement$173,220Philanthropy$150,000Health$87,349Food & Nutrition$77,773Human Services$59,442

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 budgetAPPLE TREE DENTAL: $2,330,788 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetMankato Area Foundation: $439,201 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetFAIRMONT OPERA HOUSE INC: $217,095 over 3y, 27% of budgetPROJECT 1590 INC: $155,000 over 4y, 76% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $91,907 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetHEAVENS TABLE FOOD SHELF: $77,773 over 2y, 17% of budgetMARTIN COUNTY SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION COALITION: $76,419 over 3y, 12% of budgetACTION 169: $25,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetLets Go Fishing: $21,942 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE ARC MINNESOTA INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $18,220 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRMONT AREA KINSHIP INC: $16,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEVIEW METHODIST HEALTH CARE CENTER: $10,930 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN ARTS MINNESOTA: $7,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCAREGIVERS RESPONSE EFFORT & SERVIC: $6,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIN COUNTY PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1,233 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Minnesota Community F…Otto Bremer TrustMayo Clinic Group Ret…The Rosen Family Foun…Prairie Lakes Regiona…Raymond James Charita…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN25.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Rosen Family Foundation Inc · Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Juanita E Schmeeckle Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Juanita E Schmeeckle Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Juanita E Schmeeckle Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Juanita E Schmeeckle Charitable Trust 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 38 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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