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Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation at a glance

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Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
70
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Health$5.1MEducation$4.6MArts & Culture$3.9MRecreation & Sports$2.4MCommunity Improvement$2.0MHuman Services$878kPhilanthropy$878kYouth Development$451kOther$0
02FY2025 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
  • $250k+9 grants · $2.5M
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAYS ARTS COUNCIL$333,333
HAYS ARTS COUNCIL$333,333
FHSU FOUNDATION$300,000
FORT HAYS TECH NORTH CENTRAL FOUNDATION$250,000
FHSU FOUNDATION$250,000
GROW HAYS INC$250,000
HIGH PLAINS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER$250,000
KVC FOUNDATION$250,000
HIGH PLAINS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER$250,000
DSNWK$170,000
ELLIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY FOUND$40,000
GREAT BEND CHAMBER FOUNDATION$40,000
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$40,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE-ESPERANZA: $10k → 12%HOPE-ESPERANZA: $10k → 12%CENTRAL KANSAS PARTNERSHIP INC: $5k → 14%OPTIONS DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $30k → 14%KANS FOR KIDS FIGHTING CANCER FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%YWCA ST JOSEPH: $5k → 18%DSNWK: $170k → 14%DSNWK: $170k → 14%DSNWK: $170k → 14%DSNWK: $170k → 14%DSNWK: $170k → 14%DSNWK: $170k → 14%LINK INC: $100k → 14%DSNWK: $50k → 14%DSNWK: $50k → 14%OPTIONS DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $50k → 14%DSNWK: $41k → 14%OPTIONS DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE SRV: $30k → 14%OPTIONS DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERV: $30k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NW KANSAS: $25k → 14%DSNWK: $25k → 14%DSNWK: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $16k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $10k → 14%OPTIONS DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $5k → 14%DSNWK: $3k → 14%DSNWK: $3k → 14%DSNWK: $3k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $3k → 14%DSNWK: $2k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $1k → 14%DSNWK: $500 → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $100 → 14%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

NY
SD
OH
NE
MO
KS
DC
OK
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.
$19M · 97 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
118

Total granted

$19M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+4%

Still filing today

57%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k 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
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DS
    DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +51%
  • GH
    GROW HAYS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +77%
  • KF
    KVC FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $320k
  • GN
    GREATER NW KANSAS COMM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • TA
    THE ARC OF CENTRAL PLAINS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +193%
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
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
South Central Community Foundation

To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
3
Lincoln County Economic Dev Foundation

To encourage and support economic development in lincoln county, kansas.

Community Improvement
4
Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc
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5
The Kansas Rural Communities Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
6
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
7
Kansas Cooperative Council

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…

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8
Community Health Center of Se Kansas Inc

To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health
9
Kansas Children's Foundation

The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.

Health
10
Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy
11
Kansas Association of Conservation Districts

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

Community Improvement
12
Hays Medical Center Foundation

Hays Medical Center Foundation works to attract financial support from the general public to meet both immediate and long range healthcare needs.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

113 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. 113 of the 231 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/113
Grantees still filing
69/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FHSU FOUNDATION: $5,666,918 · OtherFHSU FOUNDATIONHAYSMED FOUNDATION: $978,825 · OtherHAYSMED FOUNDATIONELLIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $835,000 · OtherELLIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYHAYS ARTS COUNCIL INC: $754,666 · Other+141 more: $6,963,564 · Other+141 moreKVC FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · HealthKVC FOUNDATI…HIGH PLAINS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $808,000 · HealthHIGH PLAINS …First Care Clinic Inc: $308,000 · HealthFirst Care C…Hays Medical Center Inc: $100,000 · Health+9 more: $271,500 · Health+9 moreDEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $1,246,000 · Human ServicesOPTIONS DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Assistance Center Inc: $149,555 · Human ServicesLINK INC: $100,000 · Human Services+4 more: $33,467 · Human ServicesGROW HAYS INC: $1,217,000 · Community ImprovementMANHATTAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $102,000 · Community Improvement+7 more: $203,000 · Community ImprovementHAYS PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUST: $200,000 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $181,000 · EducationKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationUSD 388 EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $23,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF ELLIS COUNTY INC: $268,768 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF RENO COUNTY: $130,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURIINC: $45,500 · PhilanthropyST JDC CHARITABLE FUND: $40,000 · PhilanthropyCHADRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $39,600 · PhilanthropyGreater Salina Community Foundation: $34,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $21,638 · PhilanthropyALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF ST JOSEPH MISSOURI: $75,000 · Arts & CulturePONY EXPRESS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVITY UNLIMITED ARTS COUNCIL: $31,000 · Arts & CultureST JOSEPH MUSEUMS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP: $20,000 · Arts & CultureKansas State Historical Society Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureAD ASTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureABILENE AND SMOKY VALLEY RAILROAD ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$15,198,973Health$2,487,500Human Services$1,679,022Community Improvement$1,522,000Education$654,000Philanthropy$605,006Arts & Culture$246,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $1,246,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetGROW HAYS INC: $1,217,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetKVC FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetELLIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $835,000 over 8y, 48% of budgetHIGH PLAINS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $808,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetHAYS ARTS COUNCIL INC: $754,666 over 9y, 60% of budgetFirst Care Clinic Inc: $308,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ELLIS COUNTY INC: $268,768 over 8y, 16% of budgetFort Hays Tech North Central Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCHADRON STATE FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation: $220,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetHAYS PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUST: $200,000 over 6y, 91% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc: $181,667 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $181,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPTIONS DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCANCER COUNCIL OF ELLIS COUNTY INC: $150,000 over 9y, 28% of budgetKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Assistance Center Inc: $149,555 over 9y, 17% of budgetCENTER FOR LIFE EXPERIENCE INC: $147,000 over 8y, 55% of budgetTHE EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $133,500 over 4y, 62% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RENO COUNTY: $130,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetSymphony in the Flint Hills Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetNORTH PLATTE CHAMBER AMBASSADORS INC: $109,250 over 4y, 42% of budgetMANHATTAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $102,000 over 3y, 64% of budgetTHE ARC OF CENTRAL PLAINS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetLINK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVICTORIA COMMUNITY COALITION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetValley Hope Association: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF ST JOSEPH MISSOURI: $75,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetFirst Call for Help Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetWOMEN WHO LEAD INC: $50,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetFIRST CALL FOR HELP OF ELLIS COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetKANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetKVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRISE UP RENO PREVENTION NETWORK: $45,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetST JDC CHARITABLE FUND: $40,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGREAT BEND CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetPONY EXPRESS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHADRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $39,600 over 3y, 44% of budgetGreater Salina Community Foundation: $34,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVITY UNLIMITED ARTS COUNCIL: $31,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetST JOSEPH MUSEUMS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetALLIANCE RECREATION CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetKEITH COUNTY AREA DEVELOPMENT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetHUTCHINSON THEATRE GUILD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 41% 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 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 CANCER COUNCIL OF ELLIS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Greater Salina Commun…Dane G Hansen Foundat…Commerce Bancshares F…Blue Cross and Blue S…Kansas Health Foundat…Beach-Edwards Family …Mike Berkley Family F…The Sunderland Founda…Sunflower Foundation …Greater Manhattan Com…Earl Bane FoundationThe Patterson Family …
Greater Salina Community FoundationKS60.4× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    How do I get to Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert E and Patricia 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 231 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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