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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.

$71k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$37kHuman Services$28kArts & Culture$26kHealth$23kEducation$12kEmployment$12kRecreation & Sports$11kReligion$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$25,000
BEACON HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA$5,000
CULTIVATE FOOD RESCUE$5,000
WOMEN'S CARE CENTER$2,500
OAKLAWN FOUNDATION$2,500
SOUTH BEND YOUTH SYMPHONY$2,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE MICHIANA$2,500
WEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES$2,500
COARE$1,500
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES$1,500
CARE CAMP FOUNDATION$1,500
YMCA OF GREATER MICHIANA$1,500
RESCUE RELEASE REPEAT$1,500
REEF RENEWAL USA$1,500
02The need
03

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIDDLE WAY HOUSE: $4k → 18%MIDDLE WAY HOUSE: $3k → 18%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
MI
NY
OR
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
SC
DC
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183k · 15 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$183k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+58%

Still filing today

60%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsInternationalCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CC
    CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +321%
  • IR
    Indiana Recovery Alliance Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +223%
  • SC
    STANLEY CLARK SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • YS
    YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH C
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • FB
    FORCE BLUE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • FB
    FR BLY QUARTERBACK CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Meta House Inc

Meta house ends the generational cycle of addiction by healing women and strengthening families.

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2
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

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,…

Animals
3
Pets for Patriots Inc

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.…

Animals
4
Pets for Vets Inc

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…

Public Benefit
5
Mcpaws Inc

Transforming lives by strengthening the human-animal connection.

Animals
6
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

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.

Animals
7
Ncr At Home Health and Wellness

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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8
Common Impact Inc

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…

Unclassified
9
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
10
Big Bend Hospice Inc

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…

Unclassified
11
Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc

By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.

Human Services
12
Care Ring Inc

To empower individuals with limited resources to establish and maintain good health.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project K9 Hero; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTH BEND YOUTH SYMPHONY: $15,500 · OtherSOUTH BEND YOUTH SYMPHONYJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES: $11,500 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICESFRIENDS OF EL REFUGIO: $9,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF EL REFUGIOBUSKIRK CHUMLEY THEATER: $6,500 · Other+25 more: $63,500 · Other+25 moreIndiana Recovery Alliance Inc: $11,500 · HealthIndiana Rec…Beacon Health Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthBeacon Heal…WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $2,500 · HealthWOMEN'S CAR…FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK…CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $17,000 · EmploymentSTANLEY CLARK SCHOOL INC: $11,500 · EducationWEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $7,500 · Community ImprovementMIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC: $6,500 · Human Services
Other$156,000Health$24,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Employment$17,000Education$11,500Community Improvement$7,500Human Services$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana Recovery Alliance Inc: $11,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSTANLEY CLARK SCHOOL INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBeacon Health Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELDERHEART INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASHER HOUSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Margarets House: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARE CAMPS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREEF RENEWAL USA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
  • Who funds REEF RENEWAL USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT K9 HERO ↗

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.

Community Foundation of St Joseph County IncIN17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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