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Leroy and Connie Schmidt Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$47k
Granted FY2017
24
Grants FY2017
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

77% of Leroy and Connie Schmidt Family Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Pikes Peak Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Leroy and Connie Schmidt Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $47k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’17
1
’18

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.

Philanthropy$33kEducation$15kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$8kInternational$7kHealth$6kReligion$3kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2017 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k23 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Gazette-El Pomar Fdtn Empty Stocking Fund$10,000
Village Care International$5,000
University of Arizona Foundation$5,000
Tri-Lakes Cares$5,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America$3,800
Rio Bravo Ministries$2,500
Vail Valley Foundation$1,500
Care and Share Food Bank$1,000
Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation$1,000
Habitat for Humanity$1,000
Eagle Valley Land Trust$1,000
Corner of Love Ministries$1,000
Doctors Without Borders$1,000
Vail Veterans Program$1,000
Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Village Care International: $5k → 6%Springs Rescue Mission: $1k → 9%Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation: $1k → 9%Tri-Lakes Cares: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your field

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.

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Vail Health Services

Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.

Health
2
Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care Inc

The mission of pikes peak hospice & palliative care is to provide compassionate and expert end-of-life care to patients and their families, partner with those who share our vision, and lead change in the community to ensure comfort for all…

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3
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
4
Valle Del Sol Inc

Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.

Health
5
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Eagle River Valley Childcare

Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.

Human Services
7
Pueblo Community Health Center Inc

To provide primary health care to those in need by offering top quality care through accessibility, leadership, and financial independence.

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8
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc

Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
9
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
10
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
11
Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare

To enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

Health
12
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pikes Peak Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rio Bravo Ministries. 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 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. 20 of the 25 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.

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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
16/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $33,415 · PhilanthropyPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $15,000 · EducationUniversity of Ariz…The Gazette-El Pomar Fdtn Empty Stocking Fund — $10,000 · OtherThe Gazette-El Pomar Fdt…Habitat for Humanity — $1,000 · OtherDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $1,000 · OtherIFOPA — $1,000 · OtherVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $1,500 · OtherVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATIONEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST — $1,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION — $1,000 · OtherCare and Share Inc — $1,000 · Other+4 more — $2,000 · Other+4 moreTRI-LAKES CARES — $5,000 · Human ServicesTRI-LAKES CARESViable Community Initiatives — $5,000 · Human ServicesViable Community…PIKES PEAK HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Human ServicesPIKES PEAK HOSPI…VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesVAIL VETERANS FO…THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGS RESC…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $3,800 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO — $500 · HealthSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc — $500 · HealthRIO BRAVO MINISTRIES — $2,500 · ReligionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 · InternationalCorner of Love Ministries — $1,000 · International
Philanthropy$33,415Education$15,000Other$19,500Human Services$13,000Health$4,800Religion$2,500International$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $33,415 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-LAKES CARES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetViable Community Initiatives — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIO BRAVO MINISTRIES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIKES PEAK HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCorner of Love Ministries — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare and Share Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Mountain Rescue Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Pikes Peak Community …El Pomar FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Margaret and Al H…The Hester E & Edwin …Pikes Peak United WayEnt Credit UnionThe Joseph Henry Edmo…Natl Christian Charit…The Denver FoundationVerizon FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…
Pikes Peak Community FoundationCO19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Margaret and Al Hill Family Foundation · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · Ent Credit Union · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Denver Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Leroy and Connie Schmidt Family 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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