· Private foundation
The Herman and Louise Schmitt 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY FOOD BANK | $5,200 |
| EMMAUS MISSION CENTER | $5,200 |
| CASS CO HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,200 |
| LOGANSPORT COMM SCHOOLS-FELIX'S PANTRY | $5,190 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOOD BANK | $5,190 |
| CIVIC PLAYERS OF LOGANSPORT | $3,460 |
| CASS PULASKI COMM CORRECTIONS LOGANS LANDING | $3,460 |
| LOGANSPORT ALUMNI ASSOC-TEACH CLASSROOM SUPPLIES | $3,460 |
| CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH LOAVES & FISHES | $3,460 |
| UNITED WAY OF CASS CO BEGINDERGARTEN PROGRAM | $3,460 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF CASS CO | $3,460 |
| AREA FIVE AGENCY COMMUNITY SVCS HEALTHY FAMILIES | $3,460 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TASK FORCE | $3,460 |
| CASS CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,460 |
| UNITED WAY OF CASS CO READING RAILROAD PROGRAM | $3,460 |
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, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- AFAREA FIVE AGENCY ON AGING & COMMUNITY SERVICES7× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +69%
- EMEMMAUS MISSION CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +134%
- CCCASS CO HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $36k
Funded once
- BPBACKPACK PROGRAMone grant, 2018 · $4k
- LBLOGANSPORT BACKPACK PROGRAM UNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
3 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. 3 of the 30 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Herman and Louise Schmitt 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.
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.