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Schmidtke Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$190kRecreation & Sports$14kHealth$14kFood & Nutrition$10kPhilanthropy$7kMembership Benefit$4kHousing & Shelter$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$45k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 23% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WYKOFF COMMONS: $4k → 8%RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%NORTHFIELD SHARES: $5k → 11%HUMOR TO FIGHT THE TUMOR: $9k → 11%ALBERT LEA HEALTH CARE COALITION: $5k → 12%GREENSEAM FUTURES: $5k → 15%RECHARGE AMERICA: $55k → 8%MIDWEST TELEFEST INC: $2k → 14%MIDWEST TELEFEST: $2k → 11%BAY VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 17%RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $4k → 11%GREATER JOBS INCORPORATED: $3k → 12%GREENSEAM FUTURES: $5k → 15%RECHARGE AMERICA: $50k → 8%MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH: $1k → 11%RIVERLAND FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%AMERICAN LEGION MORRISTOWN: $2k → 11%ALBERT LEA AMATUER HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $250 → 12%RECHARGE AMERICA: $50k → 8%AMERICAN LEGION MORRISTOWN: $1k → 11%ALDEN-CONGER HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 12%RECHARGE AMERICA INC: $25k → 8%AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $200 → 11%RECHARGE AMERICA: $10k → 8%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$215k · 4 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -4% since the first grant, against -23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$215k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
-23%

Still filing today

75%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementReligionEducationHealthOther
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

  • RA
    RECHARGE AMERICA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $190k · revenue -4%
  • RC
    RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue -25%
  • GF
    GREENSEAM FUTURES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • HT
    HUMOR TO FIGHT THE TUMOR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +137%
  • AL
    ALBERT LEA HEALTHCARE COALITION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -53%
  • WC
    WYKOFF COMMONS
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
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
Greater Niles Economic Development Full Employment Corporation
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2
Area Partnership for Economic Expansion

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…

Community Improvement
3
Alex Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce

Promote commerce & industry in alexandria, mn.

Community Improvement
4
Albert Lea Convention & Visitors Bu

Promote albert lea area as tourist and convention site.

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5
Albert Lea Education Association

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.

Employment
6
Lester Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
7
Albert Lea Freeborn County Chamber Commerce

Promote and develop a healthy and positive business climate and improve the quality of life in the albert lea-freeborn county area.

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8
Advance Thief River

An economic development corporation promoting job attraction/retention/expansion in thief river falls minnesota area

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9
Smart North

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…

Science & Tech
10
Northern Lakes Economic Alliance

Conduct programs to foster development and retain and attract jobs in Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan and Emmet counties.

Unclassified
11
Green Lake Renewal Inc

Working towards the revitalization of downtown Green Lake.

Community Improvement
12
Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce

Member programs/services, economic development

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Jobs Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RECHARGE AMERICA INC: $190,000 · Community ImprovementRECHARGE AMERICA INCAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY: $3,700 · OtherAMERICAN …WYKOFF COMMONS: $3,500 · OtherWYKOFF CO…Individual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividua…GREATER JOBS INCORPORATED: $2,500 · OtherGREATER J…MIDWEST TELEFEST INC: $2,000 · OtherMIDWEST T…RIVERLAND FOUNDATION: $1,500 · OtherRIVERLAND…MIDWEST TELEFEST INC: $1,500 · OtherMIDWEST T…MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherALDEN-CONGER HIGH SCHOOL: $1,000 · OtherBAY VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · OtherRIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $250 · Recreation & SportsGREENSEAM FUTURES: $10,000 · EducationHUMOR TO FIGHT THE TUMOR FOUNDATION: $8,600 · ReligionALBERT LEA HEALTHCARE COALITION: $5,000 · HealthNORTHFIELD SHARES: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Community Improvement$190,000Other$20,700Recreation & Sports$12,250Education$10,000Religion$8,600Health$5,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRECHARGE AMERICA INC: $190,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetRIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREENSEAM FUTURES: $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetHUMOR TO FIGHT THE TUMOR FOUNDATION: $8,600 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetALBERT LEA HEALTHCARE COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHFIELD SHARES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALBERT LEA AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATI: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Schmidtke Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schmidtke Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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