· Private foundation
The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS6× · 2018–2025 · $550k · revenue +78%
- NMNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +53%
- TATRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +334%
Funded once
- PHPRESERVE HICKORYone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -99%
- TATHOMPSONVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION PROJECone grant, 2024 · $25k
- STSOLON TOWNSHIP CEDAR RIVER MARINA PROJECTone 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.
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.
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.
We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.
To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
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.…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
To improve the quality of life in northern michigan.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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.
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
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.
How this is measured
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