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The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$523k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$939kHealth$734kHuman Services$351kRecreation & Sports$280kArts & Culture$266kEnvironment$228kReligion$222kYouth Development$218kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$6,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$100,000
OLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC$50,000
FRIENDS OF FIFE LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY$50,000
NORTE YOUTH CYCLING$30,000
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY$25,000
FRIENDS OF ELK RAPIDS DISTRICT LIBRARY$25,000
GRAND TRAVERSE BAY YMCA$25,000
TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION AND TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GT$20,000
HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN$20,000
GRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRICT$15,000
THE ROCK OF KINGSLEY$15,000
BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES$10,000
TRAVERSE BAY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$10,000
GRACE EPISCAPOL CHURCH$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $197k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $19k → 9%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $5k → 9%LEELANAU COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%LEELANAU COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%LEELANAU COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $10k → 10%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $5k → 10%PEACE RANCH: $10k → 10%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 7%PEACE RANCH: $3k → 10%BOOTS FOR KIDS: $10k → 10%THE FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 7%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $5k → 7%CATHOLIC HUMAN SERVICES: $10k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 7%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 7%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $6k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $4k → 7%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $4k → 7%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $5k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $3k → 7%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $5k → 10%TRAVERSE LIFE CENTER: $2k → 7%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $1k → 7%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $5k → 10%CATHOLIC HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 10%CATHOLIC HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $3k → 10%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 62 repeat orgs$560k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
63

Total granted

$3.3M
$455k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+22%

Still filing today

63%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MH
    MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS
    6× · 2018–2025 · $550k · revenue +78%
  • NM
    NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +53%
  • TA
    TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +334%

Funded once

  • PH
    PRESERVE HICKORY
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -99%
  • TA
    THOMPSONVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION PROJEC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • ST
    SOLON TOWNSHIP CEDAR RIVER MARINA PROJECT
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
2
Top of Michigan Trails Council

We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.

Recreation & Sports
3
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
4
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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5
Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network

The mission of the northwest michigan arts & culture network ("the network") is to harness the collective power of the creative sector to cultivate vibrant communities by strengthening the regional ecosystem that supports arts and culture.…

Arts & Culture
6
Michigan Trails & Greenways Alliance

Michigan trails & greenways alliance is the statewide voice for nonmotorized trail users, helping people build, connect and promote trails for a healthier and more prosperous michigan.

Arts & Culture
7
Michigan Recreation & Park Association

A member driven organization committed to providing quality professional park and recreation programs and services with fiscal integrity and progressive leadership to michigans recreation and parks trade.

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8
Land Information Access Association

Liaa is a community service organization working to increase the sustainability of communities and expand civic engagement. our mission statement is: helping people to shape better communities through: participation, education, information…

Environment
9
Community Pride Mi
Public Benefit
10
Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources

The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…

Environment
11
Association for Children's Mental Health

To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.

Health
12
Northern Transformation Corporation

To improve the quality of life in northern michigan.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action; the most unlike its peers is Mi Music Scholarship Fund. 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

76 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. 76 of the 138 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
55/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS: $550,000 · OtherMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONSGRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $449,000 · OtherGRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLSNMC FOUNDATION: $140,000 · OtherGRAND TRAVERSE PAVILIONS GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY MEDICAL CARE FACILITY: $120,000 · OtherTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC: $120,000 · OtherST MARY'S OF HANNAH: $100,000 · Other+93 more: $1,413,450 · Other+93 moreNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ELK RAPIDS DISTRICT LIBRARY: $30,000 · EducationWRITERS SERIES OF TRAVERSE CITY: $10,000 · EducationHospice of Michigan Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesGENERATIONS AHEAD: $24,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $23,850 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLeelanau County Cancer Foundation: $20,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $15,000 · Human ServicesBENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $15,000 · Human ServicesFATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesPARAKLESIS INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesBOOTS FOR KIDS: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesGrand Traverse Pavilions Foundation: $104,500 · PhilanthropyGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $18,750 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $85,000 · EnvironmentSEEDS: $35,000 · EnvironmentINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $17,000 · EnvironmentBOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentFREEDOM SUMMIT ADVENTURES INC: $7,500 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentOLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureThe Great Lakes Childrens Museum: $27,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK: $12,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER: $6,500 · Arts & CultureCOGNITION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK OF KINGSLEY INC: $46,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTE YOUTH CYCLING: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOWER BOOK BAGS: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG PEACEBUILDERS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF MICHIGAN SHORE TO SHORE: $6,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,892,450Education$240,000Human Services$196,850Philanthropy$188,250Environment$159,500Arts & Culture$124,000Youth Development$117,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS: $550,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC: $120,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetGrand Traverse Pavilions Foundation: $104,500 over 4y, 25% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $85,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND TRAVERSE REGION: $80,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetACME CHRISTIAN THRIFT STORE &FOOD PANTRY: $58,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetTRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $55,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE BAY YMCA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $46,200 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ROCK OF KINGSLEY INC: $46,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetSEEDS: $35,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHospice of Michigan Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTE YOUTH CYCLING: $35,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION: $31,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetPRESERVE HICKORY: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ELK RAPIDS DISTRICT LIBRARY: $30,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetThe Great Lakes Childrens Museum: $27,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMICHAEL'S PLACE: $27,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHOMPSONVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION PROJEC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetGENERATIONS AHEAD: $24,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $23,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER BOOK BAGS: $20,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCATHOLIC HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $18,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMT HOLIDAY INC: $18,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $15,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTRAVERSE CITY CURLING CLUB INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARAKLESIS INC: $13,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK: $12,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWE: $12,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMID MICHIGAN HONOR FLIGHT INC: $11,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG PEACEBUILDERS: $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetWRITERS SERIES OF TRAVERSE CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetADDICTION TREATMENT SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOOTS FOR KIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFREEDOM SUMMIT ADVENTURES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER: $6,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MICHIGAN SHORE TO SHORE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
  • Who funds Grand Traverse Pavilions Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND TRAVERSE REGION ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ACME CHRISTIAN THRIFT STORE &FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE BAY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCK OF KINGSLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTE YOUTH CYCLING ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PRESERVE HICKORY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ELK RAPIDS DISTRICT LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds The Great Lakes Childrens Museum ↗
  • Who funds MICHAEL'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds THOMPSONVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION PROJEC ↗
  • Who funds GENERATIONS AHEAD ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds POWER BOOK BAGS ↗

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.

Grand Traverse Regional Community FoundationMI109.6× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · The Broad Family Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Green Brick Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Michigan · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundation · The Herrington-Fitch Family Foundation Inc C/O Leslie Lee

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 The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report 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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    Find your warmest path to The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 138 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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