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The Kilian J and Caroline F Schmitt Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Kilian J and Caroline F Schmitt Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$653k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.6MArts & Culture$725kHuman Services$312kHealth$270kReligion$266kPublic Safety & Disaster$89kRecreation & Sports$63kFood & Nutrition$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$300,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
MERCY CHEFS$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
NEXTCORPS INC$20,000
ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC$20,000
HOSPEACE HOUSE INC$10,000
WXXI - PUBLIC BROADCASTING$10,000
HOPE HALL$7,500
02The need
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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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPEACE HOUSE INC: $10k → 10%MERCY CHEFS: $50k → 20%MERCY HOUSE: $25k → 14%MERCY HOUSE: $25k → 14%LIFETIME ASSISTANCE: $25k → 14%CHILDREN AWAITING PARENTS: $24k → 14%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $20k → 14%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $18k → 14%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $15k → 14%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $10k → 14%JCC OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $50k → 14%LIFESPAN: $30k → 14%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 18 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
37

Total granted

$4.6M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+26%

Still filing today

78%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +81%
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    4× · 2017–2023 · $267k · revenue +61%
  • WP
    WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +15%
  • RM
    ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue -6%
  • MW
    MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +34%
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
Rochester General College of Health Careers

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.

Education
2
Rochester General Health System

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.

Health
3
Rochester Art Center

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Rit Global Delivery Corporation

Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.

Education
5
The Montessori School of Rochester

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.

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6
Rochester Child Care Center Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Rochester Management Inc

To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.

Housing & Shelter
9
The Rochester General Hospital

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…

Health
10
Rochester Oasis

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…

—
11
Rochesterworks Inc

The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.

Employment
12
The Unity Hospital of Rochester

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Friendly Home; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $2,762,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERRochester Institute of Technology: $266,722 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · Education+4 more: $158,930 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER-NEWMAN CENTER: $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER-N…INDIVIDUAL GRANTS UNDER 5000: $138,500 · OtherINDIVIDUAL GRANTS UNDER 5…MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM: $100,000 · OtherMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG …MISCELLANEOUS SMALL DISCRETIONARY GRANTS: $90,000 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS SMALL DISCR…CAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $66,707 · OtherASBURY FIRST METHODIST CHURCH: $65,900 · OtherTHE HARLEY SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST FAMILY YMCA: $50,000 · Other+20 more: $331,250 · Other+20 moreWXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL: $180,000 · Arts & CultureWXXI PUBLIC…ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $140,000 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER M…ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $124,040 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER P…THE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LITTLE …GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $45,000 · Arts & CultureGENESEE COU…Flower City Arts Center Inc: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $62,500 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMERCY HOUSE OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesLIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesLIFETIME ASSISTANCE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES THRIVE INC: $24,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesMAYO CLINIC: $40,000 · HealthAURORA HOUSE OF WESTERN MONROE COUNTY INC: $30,000 · HealthAUTISMUP INC: $15,000 · HealthROCHESTER FRIENDLY HOME: $10,000 · HealthPLUTA CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · HealthEAST HOUSE CORPORATION: $5,000 · HealthFOODLINK INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC: $25,000 · InternationalSAINT'S PLACE: $10,000 · InternationalNEXTCORPS INC: $20,000 · Social Science
Education$3,488,152Other$1,342,357Arts & Culture$594,040Human Services$301,500Health$107,500Food & Nutrition$50,000International$35,000Social Science$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $2,762,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $266,722 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL: $180,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $140,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $124,040 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $66,707 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $62,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HARLEY SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSE OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt John Bosco Schools: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAURORA HOUSE OF WESTERN MONROE COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLIFETIME ASSISTANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES THRIVE INC: $24,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFlower City Arts Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEDCEPTIONAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNEXTCORPS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISMUP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetROCHESTER FRIENDLY HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $8,930 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HALL: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLUTA CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEAST HOUSE CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Rochester Area Commun…Esl Charitable Founda…Max and Marian Farash…Daisy Marquis Jones F…United Way of Greater…William & Sheila Kona…Ames-Amzalak Memorial…Rochester Area Commun…Charles J & Burton S …JM McDonald Foundatio…Paychex Charitable Fo…Greater Rochester Hea…
Rochester Area Community FoundationNY55.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kilian J and Caroline F Schmitt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kilian J and Caroline F Schmitt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to The Kilian J and Caroline F Schmitt Foundation Inc 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 63 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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