· Private foundation
Lisa Stuart Schmoker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $70,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $70,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $65,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $40,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY INC | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL DBA NORTHWESTERN MEDIA | $25,000 |
| WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC | $15,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC | $10,000 |
| HOPE FARM SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES UPPER MIDWEST | $10,000 |
| JACK'S BASKET | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +52% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2017–2025 · $565k · revenue +134%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $442k · revenue +145%- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND8× · 2017–2025 · $286k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- DGDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION STUART CONSULTANT ENDOWMENTone grant, 2021 · $226k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $15k
- 9K985 KTISone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…
Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…
Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 52 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest ↗
- Who funds LONGVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds ERIK'S RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JACK'S BASKET ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAWS AND CLAWS ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
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: Catherine Marie Schmoker Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Schmoker Family Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · William C Schmoker Family Foundation · Pentair Foundation · The K Foundation · Dotopia
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lisa Stuart Schmoker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lisa Stuart Schmoker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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