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Marjorie Mosher Schmidt Foundation at a glance

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Marjorie Mosher Schmidt Foundation

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.

$505k
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$654kHuman Services$208kInternational$206kRecreation & Sports$205kArts & Culture$143kReligion$135kHousing & Shelter$71kYouth Development$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $146k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $310k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETHANY COMMUNITY CHURCH$50,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
SERVING ORPHANS WORLDWIDE$40,000
SEMESTER AT SEA$20,000
Individual grant recipient$18,000
SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION$15,000
MERCY SHIPS$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
SALESIAN$15,000
MARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$15,000
GUTENBERG COLLEGE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY$15,000
UKRAINE FOCUS$15,000
BONNER SCHOOL PTA$14,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $5k → 11%XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5k → 9%XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5k → 9%XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5k → 9%XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5k → 9%XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5k → 9%XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $4k → 9%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT INC: $1k → 14%QUILTING FOR COMMUNITY: $5k → 14%QUILTING FOR COMMUNITY: $5k → 14%QUILTING FOR COMMUNITY: $5k → 14%QUILTING FOR COMMUNITY: $2k → 14%VISION HOUSE: $20k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $10k → 9%MALTBY FOOD BANK: $5k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $5k → 9%MALTBY FOOD BANK: $5k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $4k → 9%MALTBY FOOD BANK: $2k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $10k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $4k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $5k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $3k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $5k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $5k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $2k → 9%COMPANIS MISSION WORKERS ASSOCIATIO: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
SC
DC
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 73 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
48

Total granted

$2.1M
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-5%

Still filing today

60%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationInternationalHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $102k · revenue +32%
  • GC
    Gutenberg College Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $88k · revenue +52%
  • SC
    SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • OF
    ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +92%
  • VS
    VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES OF
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • NS
    NORTH SEATTLE COLLEGE EDUCATION
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
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
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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2
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports families with seriously ill children by providing a caring home-away-from-home at the SEattle Ronald McDonald House and operating a house and a van service in…

Health
3
West Seattle Food Bank

West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.

Food & Nutrition
4
Homeward Bound of Marin

Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…

Housing & Shelter
5
Sea Mar Community Health Centers

Sea mar community health centers is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational, and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to latinos.

Health
6
Transition House

Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…

Housing & Shelter
7
Listen and Talk

Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.

Education
8
South Whidbey Homeless Coalition

We provide community members facing homlessness with chelter, resurces, and advoccy to create a strong and thriving widbey island.

Housing & Shelter
9
Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children

Using Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) and oral communication we prepare deaf and hard-of-hearing children to be self-confident, articulate and academically competitive learners, and engaged community members.

Education
10
Brightspark Early Learning Services

To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…

Human Services
11
Friendship Place

Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…

Housing & Shelter
12
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest; the most unlike its peers is San Gabriel Cemetery Association. 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

74 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. 74 of the 140 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/74
Grantees still filing
47/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $140,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSEMESTER AT SEA: $127,000 · OtherSEMESTER AT SEAIndividual grant recipient: $105,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $91,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $83,000 · OtherSALESIAN: $75,000 · OtherHAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL PTSA: $61,500 · OtherMARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $60,000 · Other+100 more: $923,800 · Other+100 moreCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $102,000 · EducationCHAPMAN U…SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationSEATTLE C…Whittier College: $17,500 · EducationWhittier …+3 more: $11,500 · Education+3 moreVISION HOUSE: $46,000 · Human ServicesXENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $29,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $27,000 · Human ServicesEVERETT GOSPEL MISSION: $22,000 · Human ServicesQuilting For Community: $16,500 · Human ServicesMALTBY FOOD BANK: $12,000 · Human Services+4 more: $14,000 · Human ServicesServing Orphans Worldwide Inc: $140,000 · Food & NutritionDARRINGTON FOOD BANK: $7,000 · Food & NutritionGutenberg College Inc: $88,000 · ReligionGIVING IT BACK TO KIDS INC: $25,722 · Religion+1 more: $3,000 · ReligionCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $49,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLOTHES FOR KIDS: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentMENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KOREY: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE: $4,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentLincoln: $21,000 · HealthEVERETT RECOVERY CAFE: $16,500 · HealthOLIVE CREST: $11,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $7,000 · HealthPITT HOPKINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health
Other$1,666,300Education$211,000Human Services$166,500Food & Nutrition$147,000Religion$116,722Youth Development$92,000Health$60,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetServing Orphans Worldwide Inc: $140,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $102,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGutenberg College Inc: $88,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $49,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetVISION HOUSE: $46,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetXENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $29,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTEMECULA PLAY & LEARN SCHOOL INC: $28,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetCLOTHES FOR KIDS: $27,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $27,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGIVING IT BACK TO KIDS INC: $25,722 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEVERETT GOSPEL MISSION: $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLincoln: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $20,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAND IN HAND: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWhittier College: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEVERETT RECOVERY CAFE: $16,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetQuilting For Community: $16,500 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetMercy Ships International: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDSTRIVE: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAMILTON MUSEUM AND RANCH: $14,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEALING SCALPEL: $12,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMALTBY FOOD BANK: $12,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPADILLA BAY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSAN GABRIEL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $11,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSigma Chi International Fraternity Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIDYLLWILD HELP CENTER: $10,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAtlantic Street Center: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCamano Schoolhouse Foundation: $9,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetHUNGRY HEARTS FOUNDATON: $9,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetJournalism Funding Partners: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDARRINGTON FOOD BANK: $7,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetOneWorld Health: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSKY VALLEY FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSING BOUNDARIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCompanis Mission Workers Association: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds Serving Orphans Worldwide Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Gutenberg College Inc ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TEMECULA PLAY & LEARN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CLOTHES FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION ↗
  • Who funds GIVING IT BACK TO KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds EVERETT GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Lincoln ↗
  • Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
  • Who funds Whittier College ↗
  • Who funds EVERETT RECOVERY CAFE ↗
  • Who funds Quilting For Community ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Albertsons Compan…Employees Community F…The Employee Communit…United Way of Snohomi…Leland J & Dorothy H …Employees Community F…Medina FoundationWashington Federal Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…Evertrust Foundation
Community Foundation of Snohomish CountyWA38× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Employee Community Foundation Optum Washington · United Way of Snohomish County · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Medina Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Evertrust 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 Marjorie Mosher Schmidt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marjorie Mosher Schmidt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Marjorie Mosher Schmidt Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Marjorie Mosher Schmidt Foundation 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 140 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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