How much does Schnieders Family Foundation give?

Schnieders Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $2,163,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Schnieders Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (22%), International (18%), Education (11%).

Who are Schnieders Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Earthjustice ($1.8M), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($1.4M), Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts ($1.0M).

Does Schnieders Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Schnieders Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Schnieders Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Thornburg Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.

Where is Schnieders Family Foundation based?

Schnieders Family Foundation is based in MN.

Schnieders Family Foundation

Schnieders Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Schnieders Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$2.1MInternational$1.7MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$813kCivil Rights$792kFood & Nutrition$578kHuman Services$335kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $13k
$10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$250k+2 grants · $2.0M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART	$1,000,000
GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION	$1,000,000
ST PAUL ACADEMY	$50,000
TWIN CITIES PBS	$30,000
FRIENDS SCHOOL OF MN	$25,000
GROVES ACADEMY	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
COMO FRIENDS	$10,000
URBAN ROOTS	$5,000
KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICE	$2,000
GREYWOLF PRESS	$2,000
COFFEE HOUSE PRESS	$2,000
MILKWEED EDITIONS	$2,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$10M · 45 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10M

$995k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+25%

Still filing today

84%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalOther

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

EARTHJUSTICE
7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +82%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +98%
MS
MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS
5× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +27%

Funded once

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +48%
AC
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
one grant, 2017 · $250k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $100k

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.

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition

Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment

Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment

Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

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…

Community Improvement

Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture

The Santa Fe Opera

To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…

Arts & Culture

Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota

Support the development and enhancement of sustainable farming systems through farmer-to-farmer networking, innovation, demonstration, and education.

Food & Nutrition

Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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Minnesota Environmental Partnership

The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.

Environment

Land Stewardship Project

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…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts; 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.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 85 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

65/66

Grantees still filing

42/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,219,545Arts & Culture$2,275,200Environment$2,118,500International$1,750,000Education$1,375,000Crime & Legal$510,000Human Services$372,000

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.

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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM35.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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