· Private foundation
Schmoker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $297k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE TWIN CITIES | $70,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY INC | $44,600 |
| SAINT THOMAS ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| MEETINGHOUSE CHURCH | $35,000 |
| NC LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY AND SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $25,000 |
| PHEASANTS FOREVER | $25,000 |
| OPERATION HOMEFRONT | $17,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN INC | $15,000 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY VETERINARY CENTERS | $15,000 |
| LONGVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PERDUE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND6× · 2019–2024 · $410k · revenue +91%
- MCMinnesota Children's Museum3× · 2019–2024 · $235k · revenue +42%
- HAHOPE ACADEMY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $189k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- STST THOMAS ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $250k
- SNSIGMA NU BUILDING ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k · 76% of their budget
- NUNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 43 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 SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds UNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIGMA NU BUILDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society Veterinary Centers PC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MINNEAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds LONGVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Catherine Marie Schmoker Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Lisa Stuart Schmoker Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · William C Schmoker Family Foundation · Susan Stuart Seiler Family Foundation · Woodhouse Family Foundation · Sit Investment Associates Foundation
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 Schmoker 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 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.
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