· Private foundation
Schmidtke Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RECHARGE AMERICA INC | $25,000 |
| RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| GREENSEAM FUTURES | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY | $3,500 |
| GREATER JOBS INCORPORATED | $2,500 |
| MIDWEST TELEFEST INC | $2,000 |
| MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| ALBERT LEA AMATUER HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 23% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 0% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- RARECHARGE AMERICA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $190k · revenue +16%
- RCRIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue -25%
- GFGREENSEAM FUTURES2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- HTHUMOR TO FIGHT THE TUMOR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +137%
- ALALBERT LEA HEALTHCARE COALITIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -53%
- WCWYKOFF COMMONSone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
Promote and develop economic expansion in duluth and northeastern mn and northwestern wisconsin. the organization leads regional research efforts related to human resources, and emerging industries to inform business development and…
Promote commerce & industry in alexandria, mn.
Promote albert lea area as tourist and convention site.
Negotiates teacher contracts with albert lea, mn school district. advocates teachers rights,provides a forum for teachers to discuss job related issues and awards scholarships.
The Lester Development Corporation seeks to be a driver in the future growth and development of the village of Lester by partnering with localgovernment, development foundations, businesses, and residents. The corporation aims to provide…
Promote and develop a healthy and positive business climate and improve the quality of life in the albert lea-freeborn county area.
An economic development corporation promoting job attraction/retention/expansion in thief river falls minnesota area
Smart north was born out of community vision to advance digital equity and opportunities for underserved and rural communities in minnesota. we provide free access and training in leading 21st century tech skills to create a level playing…
Conduct programs to foster development and retain and attract jobs in Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan and Emmet counties.
Working towards the revitalization of downtown Green Lake.
Member programs/services, economic development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Jobs Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Albert Lea Healthcare Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 RECHARGE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENSEAM FUTURES ↗
- Who funds HUMOR TO FIGHT THE TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALBERT LEA HEALTHCARE COALITION ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD SHARES ↗
- Who funds GREATER JOBS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BAY VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALBERT LEA AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATI ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Schmidtke Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.