· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARE GUIDE PARTNERS PACE | $300,000 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $50,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS | $35,000 |
| SPARCC | $30,000 |
| DOGS INC | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| CASA OF THE HEARTLAND | $10,000 |
| KCTCS | $10,000 |
| GREENSPACE INC | $10,000 |
| CLARITY SOLUTIONS | $3,500 |
| PROJECT LEARN INC | $3,500 |
| BERNHEIM ARBORETUM AND RESEARCH FOREST | $2,000 |
| FACE AUTISM INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k 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
- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $790k · revenue +67%
Sarasota Opera Association Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $366k · revenue +44%- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $264k · revenue +15%
Funded once
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +8%- HSHumane Society of Sarasota County Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -7%
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC OF HARDIN & LARUE COone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
Hospice of martin & st. lucie, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families, dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. hospice…
Hospice of the treasure coast, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
The mission of suncoast hospice foundation is to advance the understanding, participation, and support of the mission and programs of suncoast hospice and its affilated organizations, honoring the community's sacred trust through sound…
Improve human health and well-being through animal-assisted therapy.
Provide services to terminally ill patients and their families, as well as those experiencing serious illness and loss.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is All Star Children's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Face Autism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 40 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
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 RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds GREENSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ISAAC W BERNHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEARN INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Hardin ↗
- Who funds REEL RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds FACE AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Schmidt Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
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.