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Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$63k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$100kHealth$83kHuman Services$41kCrime & Legal$30kReligion$27kEducation$24kArts & Culture$22kAnimals$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$7,200
Median grant
3
States reached
$815k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alliance Defending Freedom$10,000
Hastings Airport Association$8,000
WOMEN'S CARE CENTER$8,000
Nebraska Family Alliance$8,000
Assure Women's Center$7,800
Agape International Ministry$7,200
CASA - Fillmore County$6,000
Deshler Lutheran School Foundation$5,000
Arts Council of Thayer County$1,600
THAYER COUNTY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
Parkview Haven Star of Lights$500
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Alliance Defending Freedom: $15k → 11%CASA - Fillmore County: $6k → 9%Living Water Rescue Mission: $5k → 10%CASA: $12k → 11%Epworth Village Foundation: $7k → 11%Meadowlark Heights Foundation: $6k → 11%Assure Women's Center: $13k → 12%Nebraska Family Alliance: $27k → 13%Guillain-Barre Foundation: $10k → 7%Agape International Ministry: $7k → 6%Mission Central - Lutheran Church MO Synod: $3k → 11%India Transformed: $3k → 12%Alliance Defending Freedom: $15k → 11%CASA - Fillmore County: $6k → 9%Living Water Rescue Mission: $5k → 10%Hastings Airport Association: $8k → 11%Living Water Mission: $5k → 11%Deshler Lutheran School Foundation: $5k → 11%Assure Women's Center: $13k → 12%Nebraska Family Alliance: $8k → 13%Guillain-Barre Foundation: $10k → 7%Agape International Ministry: $6k → 6%Alliance Defending Freedom: $15k → 11%CASA: $6k → 11%Living Water Rescue Mission: $5k → 11%Deshler Lutheran School Association: $5k → 11%Assure Women's Center: $8k → 12%Nebraska Family Alliance: $5k → 13%Guillain-Barre Foundation: $10k → 7%Alliance Defending Freedom: $15k → 11%CASA: $6k → 11%Deshler Lutheran School Association: $5k → 11%Assure Women's Center: $7k → 12%Nebraska Family Alliance: $5k → 13%Guillain-Barre Foundation: $5k → 7%Alliance Defending Freedom: $10k → 11%Deshler Lutheran School Association: $5k → 11%Assure Women's Center: $6k → 12%Guillain - Barre Foundation: $5k → 7%Alliance Defending Freedom: $10k → 11%Deshler Lutheran School Foundation: $5k → 11%Assure Women's Center: $6k → 12%Alliance Defending Freedom: $10k → 11%St Peter Lutheran Church: $4k → 11%WOMEN'S CARE CENTER: $8k → 12%Alliance Defending Freedom: $10k → 11%Women's Care Center: $4k → 12%Alliance Defending Freedom: $10k → 11%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$399k · 18 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +134% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
10

Total granted

$399k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+134%
0%

Still filing today

22%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyHealthEducationReligionOther
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

  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +134%
  • AW
    Assure Womens Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +106%
  • NF
    NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • EV
    EPWORTH VILLAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -84%
  • LW
    Living Water Mission
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • HG
    HOPE GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Nebraska Press Assoc Foundation

Promote journalism in nebraska through scholarships, awards for excellence in journalism and support for journalism programs.

Education
2
York County Development Corporation

To encourage and promote quality economic growth in york county

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3
Christian Outreach Program - Elkhorn

To provide and connect resources in western douglas county, nebraska for those whose needs are temporarily greater than their means.

Human Services
4
First Covenant Church Foundation

First covenant church foundation is a supporting organization of first covenant church of omaha, ne. it was formed to support the charitable, religious and educational programs of first covenant church of omaha.

Religion
5
Nebraska Votes

The organization's purpose is to ensure a fair and modern democracy in nebraska through research, education, and advocacy for policies and practices that promote participation in democracy.

Civil Rights
6
West Nebraska Arts Center

The organization's primary purpose is the promotion of the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
North Dakota News Cooperative
Arts & Culture
8
The Christ Lutheran Foundation

Organized for charitable, religious, and educational purposes; the foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the benefit of christ lincoln church in lincoln, nebraska (a nebraska non-profit religious corporation).

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9
The West Point Auditorium Foundation

See attached the west point auditorium foundation was organized to raise money in order to construct a civic center in west point, ne

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10
Kansas Family Voice Inc

Kfv seeks to establish a kansas where god is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive and life is cherished.

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11
Refugee Empowerment Center

To resettle refugees in nebraska and provide them the support they need to thrive.

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12
Wichita Falls Faith Mission Inc

To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arts Council of Thayer County. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC: $45,385 · OtherNEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INCIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCASA: $24,000 · OtherCASALiving Water Rescue Mission: $18,000 · OtherLiving Water Rescue MissionDESHLER LUTHERAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · OtherDESHLER LUTHERAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONAgape International Ministry: $13,200 · OtherAgape International MinistryWOMEN'S CARE CENTER: $12,000 · OtherCASA - Fillmore County: $12,000 · OtherDeshler Lutheran School Foundation: $9,685 · OtherThayer County Museum: $8,500 · Other+14 more: $48,743 · Other+14 moreALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $110,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOMAssure Womens Center: $51,800 · HealthAssure Womens…ARTS COUNCIL OF THAYER COUNTY: $13,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureEPWORTH VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · PhilanthropyBRUNING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 · PhilanthropyHOPE GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC: $3,000 · ReligionINDIA TRANSFORMED: $3,000 · Education
Other$246,513Civil Rights$110,000Health$51,800Arts & Culture$13,600Philanthropy$8,500Religion$3,000Education$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $110,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAssure Womens Center: $51,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC: $45,385 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF THAYER COUNTY: $13,500 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetHOPE GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINDIA TRANSFORMED: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRUNING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYORK ADOPT- A- PET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds Assure Womens Center ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF THAYER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds EPWORTH VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIA TRANSFORMED ↗
  • Who funds BRUNING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YORK ADOPT- A- PET ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA ↗

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
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 Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patricia and Ronald Schardt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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