· Private foundation
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k58 grants · $334k
- $10k–50k68 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k108 grants · $11M
- $250k+145 grants · $231M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE RHODES TRUST | $12,500,000 |
| KYUTAI | $10,442,000 |
| FUTURE HOUSE INC | $10,000,000 |
| BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION | $10,000,000 |
| THE RHODES TRUST | $8,069,204 |
| CONVERGENT RESEARCH INC | $8,000,000 |
| CONVERGENT RESEARCH INC | $8,000,000 |
| THE RHODES TRUST | $7,038,587 |
| DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION INC | $6,094,431 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $6,000,000 |
| THE RHODES TRUST | $5,937,909 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $4,826,269 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $4,500,000 |
| CONVERGENT RESEARCH INC | $4,000,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $3,065,404 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 64% of grant dollars ($451M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 36% that went abroad ($250M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 36% of all-years giving ($250M)
26 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
177 repeat relationships: 99 still active in FY2024, 78 since wound down; 162 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CRCONVERGENT RESEARCH INC3× · 2022–2024 · $67M · revenue +543% · 81% of their budget
- DHDIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $9.6M · revenue +93%
- CICAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA3× · 2022–2024 · $8.9M · revenue +37%
Funded once
- EOEUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCHone grant, 2023 · $8.5M
- FBFONDAZIONE BOLOGNA UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $3.0M
- CMCHANCELLOR MASTERS & SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDone grant, 2023 · $2.7M · revenue +10%
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.
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How this is measured
289 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. 289 of the 615 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CONVERGENT RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds FUTURE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWANITI INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
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: Gates Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Alfred P Sloan Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Center On Rural Innovation Inc: 37% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Vehicles for Change Inc: 16% of income from government
- Baltimore Corps Inc: 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Igem Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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