Nebraska · Private foundation
Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $63k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $815k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $63k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $65k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $43k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $52k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $45k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $45k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $45k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $40k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $110,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Assure Womens Center | $51,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Nebraska Family Alliance Inc | $45,385 | 4 | 2% |
| Deshler Lutheran School Association | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Arts Council of Thayer County | $13,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Epworth Village Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Peter Lutheran Church | $6,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Hope Pregnancy Center Inc | $3,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Hope Gospel Rescue Mission Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| India Transformed | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $110,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Assure Womens Center | $51,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Nebraska Family Alliance Inc | $45,385 | 4 | 2% |
| Deshler Lutheran School Association | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Arts Council of Thayer County | $13,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Epworth Village Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Peter Lutheran Church | $6,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Hope Pregnancy Center Inc | $3,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Hope Gospel Rescue Mission Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| India Transformed | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| York Adopt- A- Pet | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Lied Lied Center for Performing Arts- Nebraska | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($174k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation
- How much does Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation give?
- Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $63,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (27%), Health (22%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alliance Defending Freedom ($110k), Assure Womens Center ($52k), Nebraska Family Alliance Inc ($45k).
- Does Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation based?
- Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation is based in NE.
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