Florida · Private foundation
Schmidt 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.
- $495k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Schmidt Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $495k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $180k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $377k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $300k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $296k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $287k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $300k | 11% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $326k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ringling College of Art and Design Inc | $789,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Sarasota Opera Association Inc | $366,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc | $263,500 | 5 | 0% |
| All Star Children's Foundation Inc | $196,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Florida Studio Theatre Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Casa of the Heartland | $60,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Greenspace Inc | $45,000 | 7 | 16% |
| Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Helping Hand of Hope Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ringling College of Art and Design Inc | $789,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Sarasota Opera Association Inc | $366,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc | $263,500 | 5 | 0% |
| All Star Children's Foundation Inc | $196,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Florida Studio Theatre Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Casa of the Heartland | $60,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Greenspace Inc | $45,000 | 7 | 16% |
| Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Helping Hand of Hope Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Isaac W Bernheim Foundation | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Project Learn Inc | $13,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Hosparus Inc Hosparus Health | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Health Clinic Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Family Scholar House Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Elizabethtown Police Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Baptist Health Foundation Hardin | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Reel Recovery Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Face Autism Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 2% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($551k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Schmidt Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Central Kentucky Community Foundation Inc · Second Sixty Charitable Foundation Inc · Mary Cofer Trigg Tuw Char · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good
How this is measured
About Schmidt Family Foundation
- How much does Schmidt Family Foundation give?
- Schmidt Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $495,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Schmidt Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Arts & Culture (20%), Health (17%).
- Who are Schmidt Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ringling College of Art and Design Inc ($790k), Sarasota Opera Association Inc ($366k), Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ($264k).
- Does Schmidt Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schmidt Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Schmidt Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Kentucky Community Foundation Inc, Second Sixty Charitable Foundation Inc, Mary Cofer Trigg Tuw Char.
- Where is Schmidt Family Foundation based?
- Schmidt Family Foundation is based in FL.
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