· Private foundation
Schmuhl 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BEACON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA | $5,000 |
| CULTIVATE FOOD RESCUE | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE MICHIANA | $2,500 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $2,500 |
| OAKLAWN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SOUTH BEND YOUTH SYMPHONY | $2,500 |
| WEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| YMCA OF GREATER MICHIANA | $1,500 |
| CARE CAMP FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| COARE | $1,500 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES | $1,500 |
| 1ST TEE MICHIANA | $1,500 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 12 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +1%
- CCCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +321%
- IRIndiana Recovery Alliance Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +223%
Funded once
- FBFORCE BLUEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FBFR BLY QUARTERBACK CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
- YSYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH Cone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Meta house ends the generational cycle of addiction by healing women and strengthening families.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
Transforming lives by strengthening the human-animal connection.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
For over 40 years, big bend hospice ("BBH "Big Bend") has been inspiring hope by positively impacting the way our community experiences serious illness or grief, one family at a time. BBH Has deep roots throughout our eith-county service…
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
To empower individuals with limited resources to establish and maintain good health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project K9 Hero and the most unlike its peers is Indiana Recovery Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 38 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 FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Recovery Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds STANLEY CLARK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Beacon Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERHEART INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY MIRACLE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds St Margarets House ↗
- Who funds CARE CAMPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REEF RENEWAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT K9 HERO ↗
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: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Radiology Inc Foundation · The Garatoni-Smith Family Foundation · The Specialized Staffing Charitable Foundation Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Schmuhl 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.