Kansas · Private foundation
Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $333,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 85
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $66M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k 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 | 51 | $3.9M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $3.6M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $3.8M | 37% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $3.6M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 85 | $3.2M | 62% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $2.0M | 45% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $1.3M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $515k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas Inc | $1,246,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Grow Hays Inc | $1,217,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Kvc Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Ellis County Historical Society | $835,000 | 8 | 48% |
| High Plains Mental Health Center | $808,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Hays Arts Council Inc | $754,666 | 9 | 60% |
| First Care Clinic Inc | $308,000 | 3 | 2% |
| United Way of Ellis County Inc | $268,768 | 8 | 16% |
| Fort Hays Tech North Central Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 24% |
| Chadron State Foundation | $230,000 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 115 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 109 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 99 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Dane G Hansen Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · Beach-Edwards Family Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Greater Manhattan Community Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · The Patterson Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation
- How much does Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation give?
- Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $3,876,141 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 85 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Education (20%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas Inc ($1.2M), Grow Hays Inc ($1.2M), Kvc Foundation Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Salina Community Foundation, Dane G Hansen Foundation, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.
- Where is Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation based?
- Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation is based in KS.
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