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Schnieders 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $100,000 |
| SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC | $55,000 |
| REUNITY RESOURCES | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS SCHOOL OF MN | $25,000 |
| PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA | $25,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART | $20,000 |
| ONE HEARTLAND | $10,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PBS | $10,000 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL | $10,000 |
| GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREAT RIVER GREENING | $5,000 |
| HEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT | $5,000 |
| ST PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| THE XERCES SOCIETY | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $372k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
EARTHJUSTICE7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +82%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +98%- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $510k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONone grant, 2017 · $250k
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +48%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $100k
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.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.
Support the development and enhancement of sustainable farming systems through farmer-to-farmer networking, innovation, demonstration, and education.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.
The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…
Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.
The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…
The land stewardship project (lsp) was organized on june 1, 1982, as a division of the national catholic rural life conference and in 1983 was incorporated under the minnesota (mn) nonprofit corporation act. lsp is supported primarily by…
The m inspires understandings of identities, experiences, and complex truths through american art.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the most unlike its peers is Holistic Manangement International. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 77 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 EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds DIG DEEP ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc ↗
- Who funds SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
- Who funds EARTH University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MOGRO MOBILE GROCERY ↗
- Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
- Who funds APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds QUIVIRA COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILIA MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING ARTS ESPANOLA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri ↗
- Who funds CIRCUS OF THE STAR ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Patagoniaorg
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 Schnieders 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.
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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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