· Private foundation
The Kilian J and Caroline F Schmitt Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $300,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| MISCELLANEOUS SMALL DISCRETIONARY GRANTS | $40,000 |
| ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $35,000 |
| ST JOHN BOSCO SCHOOLS | $30,000 |
| BISHOP SHEEN ECUMENICAL HOUSING FNDN INC | $30,000 |
| ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC | $20,000 |
| NEXTCORPS INC | $20,000 |
| HOSPEACE HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| WXXI - PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $10,000 |
| HOPE HALL | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $302k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k 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
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +81%
Rochester Institute of Technology4× · 2017–2023 · $267k · revenue +61%- WPWXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +15%
- RMROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue -6%
- MWMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.
Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.
Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
To nourish the child's spirit, while fostering exploration, independence, and confidence. we strive to inspire a lifelong love of learning, while modeling grace, courtesy, and respect for self, others, and the earth.
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.
To establish, erect and maintain a general hospital and dispensary in the county of monroe, ny for medical and surgical aid, care and treatment of persons in need thereof; to carry on and conduct a training school for nurses; to promote…
To promote successful aging for adults age 50 and older through lifelong learning, health programs and volunteer engagement. our vision is that adults age 50 plus have opportunities to pursue vibrant, healthy, productive and meaningful…
The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.
See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Friendly Home and the most unlike its peers is Aurora House of Western Monroe County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 63 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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds St John Bosco Schools ↗
- Who funds AURORA HOUSE OF WESTERN MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds LIFETIME ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES THRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Flower City Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EDCEPTIONAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Kilian J and Caroline F Schmitt Foundation Inc 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.
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