· Private foundation
Schmoker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PERDUE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND6× · 2019–2024 · $410k · revenue +71%
- 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
- JPJEREMIAH PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society Veterinary Centers PC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MINNEAPOLIS INC ↗
- 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 HOPE FARM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Schmoker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schmoker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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