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Schmidgall Family Foundation at a glance

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Schmidgall Family Foundation

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.

$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$618kPhilanthropy$65kHousing & Shelter$49kAnimals$43kEnvironment$37kYouth Development$30kCrime & Legal$22kScience & Tech$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $120k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED$40,000
OLIVE TREE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY$40,000
T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE$25,000
THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST$15,000
THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY21–24, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST: $15k → 12%THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST: $12k → 12%THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST: $12k → 12%THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST: $10k → 12%OLIVE TREE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY: $40k → 12%OLIVE TREE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY: $40k → 12%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$802k · 10 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$802k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+71%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $94k · revenue +30% · 63% of their budget
  • TR
    THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $49k · revenue +306%
  • Chicago Zoological Society
    4× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +71%
  • EC
    ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +6%
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
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
2
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
3
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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4
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
5
Energy Education Council

Enhancing lives by promoting the safe & efficient use of electricity.

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
10
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
11
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education
12
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc

Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elgin Community College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Center for Success for High Need Schools Inc. 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, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

T ROWE PRICE PROG CHARITABLE GIVING: $393,000 · OtherT ROWE PRICE PROG CHARITABLE GIVINGCENTURY HARVEST FARMS: $22,000 · Other+2 more: $22,500 · OtherCENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC: $94,000 · EducationCENTER FOR SUCCESS…North Central College: $41,000 · EducationNorth Central Coll…ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationELGIN COMMUNITY CO…OLIVE TREE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY: $80,000 · Human ServicesOLIVE TREE EARLY…THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $49,000 · Human ServicesTHE RESTORATION …T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $65,000 · PhilanthropyChicago Zoological Society: $43,000 · AnimalsTHE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $37,062 · EnvironmentGIRL TALK INC: $30,000 · Youth Development
Other$437,500Education$145,000Human Services$129,000Philanthropy$65,000Animals$43,000Environment$37,062Youth Development$30,000

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 budgetCENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC: $94,000 over 4y, 63% of budgetOLIVE TREE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY: $80,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetT ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $49,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $43,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Central College: $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $37,062 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL TALK INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Schmidgall Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schmidgall Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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