· Private foundation
Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
- $250k+9 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAYS ARTS COUNCIL | $333,333 |
| HAYS ARTS COUNCIL | $333,333 |
| FHSU FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| KVC FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| HIGH PLAINS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $250,000 |
| FORT HAYS TECH NORTH CENTRAL FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| GROW HAYS INC | $250,000 |
| HIGH PLAINS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $250,000 |
| FHSU FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| DSNWK | $170,000 |
| ELLIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| OREGON TRAIL FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY FOUND | $40,000 |
| FH TECH NORTH CENTRAL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DSDEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +51%
- GHGROW HAYS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +77%
- KFKVC FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $320k
- GNGREATER NW KANSAS COMM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $125k
- VCVICTORIA COMMUNITY COALITION INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
To encourage and support economic development in lincoln county, kansas.
Provide a vehicle by which individuals, families, businesses, and organizations can financially support the needs of their communities. solicit funds and educate potential donors about the advantages of giving for both the donor and their…
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
Engage in educational, scientific, and governmental efforts to conserve, develop, and improve the use of land, soil, water, plants, animals, and other natural resources within the state of kansas
Hays Medical Center Foundation works to attract financial support from the general public to meet both immediate and long range healthcare needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St Jdc Charitable Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
113 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 113 of the 231 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds GROW HAYS INC ↗
- Who funds KVC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAYS ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds First Care Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ELLIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Hays Tech North Central Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAYS PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUST ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANCER COUNCIL OF ELLIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Assistance Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LIFE EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RENO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH PLATTE CHAMBER AMBASSADORS INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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