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Schmid Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$114kHealth$31kHuman Services$15kReligion$15kYouth Development$11kRecreation & Sports$11kFood & Nutrition$8kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTVERDE ACADEMY$10,000
LOVE MADE VISIBLE$5,000
CLERMONT KNIGHTS YOUTH SPORTS INC$5,000
MINNEOLA CHARTER SCHOOL$1,500
KIWANIS CLUB OF SOUTH LAKE FOUNDATION$1,200
Dolphins Cancer Center$1,000
Wong Trust$1,000
NEW BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC$700
CHABAD OF S LAKE COUNTY INC$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAITH NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 10%FAITH NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $3k → 10%FAITH NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $750 → 10%CORNERSTONE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%WEST ORANGE DREAM CENTER: $5k → 13%THE DREAM ACADEMY: $500 → 10%CORNERSTONE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%CORNERSTONE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
IA
PA
CA
CO
TN
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$142k · 16 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
57

Total granted

$142k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+44%

Still filing today

56%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MA
    MONTVERDE ACADEMY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +58%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +67%
  • FA
    Feed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center
    3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +840%

Funded once

  • SL
    South Lake Hospital Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +109%
  • LC
    LAKE COUNTY SHERIFFS CHARITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +140%
  • SL
    SOUTH LAKE COMMUNITY MINISTRIESINCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +589%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…

Human Services
2
Lake Seminole Square Scholarship Fund Inc
Education
3
Central Florida Advanced Nursi

To foster and encourage to promote and improve the care given to patients

Environment
4
The South Florida Charity Classic
Human Services
5
Orlando Health Foundation Inc

The mission of the orlando health foundation is to support the strategic priorities of orlando health through philanthropy. this is accomplished through special events and annual major and planned gift fundraising efforts.

Health
6
Orlando Health Inc

Orlando health is a trusted leader inspiring hope through the advancement of health. our mission as a community-owned organization is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.

Health
7
Florida Research Center for Agricultural Sustainability Inc
Philanthropy
8
Lakeland Community Foundation
9
Step Up for Students - Florida Inc

Step up for students empowers families to pursue and engage in the most appropriate learning options for their children, with an emphasis on families who lack the information and financial resources to access these options. by pursuing…

Education
10
North Florida School of Special Education Inc

To discover and foster each student's unique abilities revealing their highest potential within an engaged community.

11
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
12
Lakeland Leadership League

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Lake Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shooting Star Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ProgramsBusiness & Industry Associa…Private Foundations and Cha…Fraternal Service Organizat…Performing Arts Organizatio…Pediatric Critical Illness …Residential Recovery & Supp…Community Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%5%<5yr18%22%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr13%16%20–35yr8%16%35–55yr12%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%1%<5yr18%11%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr13%12%20–35yr8%4%35–55yr12%59%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 5% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/44
the rest of the field
19%
2,824/15,137

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.

04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MONTVERDE ACADEMY INC — $65,500 · OtherMONTVERDE ACADEMY INCSOUTH LAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $8,300 · OtherSOUTH LAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCLOVE MADE VISIBLE — $5,000 · OtherClermont Knights Youth Sports Inc — $5,000 · OtherBOYSGIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL FLORIDA — $5,000 · Other+50 more — $46,480 · Other+50 moreUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL…MINNEOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $6,500 · EducationMINNEOLA CHARTER SCHO…Eight Waves Corporation — $5,000 · EducationEight Waves Corporati…+4 more — $1,400 · EducationFeed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center — $8,250 · Human ServicesFeed And I…WEST ORANGE DREAM CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesWEST ORANG…Cornerstone Hospice Foundation Inc — $3,700 · Human ServicesCornerston…Kiwanis Club of So Lake Foundation — $3,200 · Human ServicesKiwanis Cl…+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesSouth Lake Hospital Inc — $6,000 · HealthNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC — $5,000 · HealthThe Art of Medicine Foundation Inc — $1,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 · Health+1 more — $250 · HealthLAKE COUNTY SHERIFFS CHARITIES INC — $5,750 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc — $1,500 · PhilanthropySOUTH LAKE COMMUNITY MINISTRIESINC — $5,300 · ReligionThe Green Turtle Cay Foundation — $5,000 · International
Other$135,280Education$42,900Human Services$20,650Health$14,250Philanthropy$7,250Religion$5,300International$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMONTVERDE ACADEMY INC — $65,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH LAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $8,300 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetFeed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center — $8,250 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMINNEOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Lake Hospital Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY SHERIFFS CHARITIES INC — $5,750 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSOUTH LAKE COMMUNITY MINISTRIESINC — $5,300 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEight Waves Corporation — $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetThe Green Turtle Cay Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEST ORANGE DREAM CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCornerstone Hospice Foundation Inc — $3,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $3,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKiwanis Club of So Lake Foundation — $3,200 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCentral Florida Pediatric Therapy Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEACON COLLEGE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH ORLANDO KIWANIS LITTLE LEAGUE — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DORA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCUPID CHARITIES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH LAKE ALL-SPORTS BOOSTERS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetShooting Star Foundation Inc — $400 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINTER GARDEN ART ASSOCIATION — $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE-SUMTER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Live Well Foundation of South Lake IncFL26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Live Well Foundation of South Lake Inc · Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc · United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc · Acahand Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Junebug Foundation Inc · W T Bland Jr Charitable Tua · Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Schmid Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 160%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc1% of income from government
  • Beacon College Inc0% of income from government
  • South Lake Hospital Inc0% of income from government
  • Minneola Charter Schools Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Schmid Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Schmid Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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