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Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$69k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$41,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY2024still arriving8$69k50%
FY20239$299k33%
FY20225$52k20%
FY20219$178k33%
FY202011$113k64%
FY20195$48k0%
FY201827$134k74%
FY201714$130kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$612kEducation$186kEnvironment$63kHuman Services$55kArts & Culture$51kPhilanthropy$20kYouth Development$12kHealth$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
OR
IA
IN
CO
AZ
TN
NC
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Spring Lake Church$596,0008n/a
Green Bay Botanical Garden Inc$63,36580%
Sister Bay Historical Society Inc$25,0001n/a
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Brian Laviolette Scholarship Fund Foundation Inc$25,000110%
Greater Green Bay YMCA Inc$13,18220%
Missions of Honor Inc$8,87011%
Redbird District Projects Inc$5,0001n/a
New North Inc$5,00010%
The Bellin Health Foundation Inc$5,00010%
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All grantees of Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Spring Lake Church$596,0008n/a
Green Bay Botanical Garden Inc$63,36580%
Sister Bay Historical Society Inc$25,0001n/a
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Brian Laviolette Scholarship Fund Foundation Inc$25,000110%
Greater Green Bay YMCA Inc$13,18220%
Missions of Honor Inc$8,87011%
Redbird District Projects Inc$5,0001n/a
New North Inc$5,00010%
The Bellin Health Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Young Life$4,10010%
St Norbert College Inc$3,93410%
Evangelism in Action Inc$2,50012%
Aspiro Inc$2,50010%
Bellin College Inc$2,40020%
Evans Scholars Foundation$2,00080%
The American Tinnitus Association$1,25020%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc$1,02511%
Bonita Bay Hurricane Relief Fund Inc$1,00010%
Children's Museum of Green Bay Inc$60010%
Paddle 4 Troops Inc$50011%
Cerebral Palsy Inc$50010%
Northeast Wisconsin Black Sheep Inc$2501n/a
Sister Bay and Liberty Grove$25010%
The School Sisters of St Francis$451n/a

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($228k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreen Bay Botanical Garden Inc: $63,365 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBrian Laviolette Scholarship Fund Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetGreater Green Bay YMCA Inc: $13,182 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMissions of Honor Inc: $8,870 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNew North Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Bellin Health Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Life: $4,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Norbert College Inc: $3,934 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvangelism in Action Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAspiro Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBellin College Inc: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEvans Scholars Foundation: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Tinnitus Association: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc: $1,025 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBonita Bay Hurricane Relief Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Museum of Green Bay Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPaddle 4 Troops Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCerebral Palsy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSister Bay and Liberty Grove: $250 over 1y, 0.3% 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 20.

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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.

George Kress Foundation IncWI30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George Kress Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Weyers Family Foundation Inc · Easter Foundation Inc · Elizabeth B and Philip J Hendrickson Foundation Ltd · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Chernick Family Foundation Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc · Cloud Family Foundation Inc

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 Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc

How much does Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc give?
Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $69,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (59%), Education (18%), Environment (6%).
Who are Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Spring Lake Church ($596k), Green Bay Botanical Garden Inc ($63k), Sister Bay Historical Society Inc ($25k).
Does Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Karl and Karen 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 Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George Kress Foundation Inc, Wisconsin Public Service Foundation, John and Engrid Meng Inc.
Where is Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc based?
Karl and Karen Schmidt Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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