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The Kleinschmidt Family Foundation at a glance

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The Kleinschmidt Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$790k
Granted FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$205k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.5MEducation$858kYouth Development$180kHealth$146kRecreation & Sports$132kSocial Science$119kPhilanthropy$104kOther$0
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k48 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $217k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $482k
$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$205,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW (NEW CRITERION)$102,000
REASON FOUNDATION$75,000
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE$50,000
UW OSHKOSH FOUNDATION$50,000
THE FRICK COLLECTION$43,000
ADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE INC$40,000
VERO BEACH OPERA$28,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$25,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$16,000
FRIENDS OF OFLAG 64$12,500
SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE$12,500
MASS GENERAL$10,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER FOUNDATION$10,000
CATO INSTITUTE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DENVER ACTIVE 20-30 CHILDRENS FOUNDN: $1k → 12%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER CTY: $130 → 12%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER CTY: $130 → 12%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER: $130 → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 88 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

88 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
49

Total granted

$5.1M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+43%

Still filing today

63%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • MI
    MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $544k · revenue +38%
  • TR
    THE REASON FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +80%
  • VB
    VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $520k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • EF
    ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +224%
  • DC
    DEBUTANTE COLLITION AND CHRISTMAS BALL
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • RT
    ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $29k · revenue +84%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
8
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vero Beach Theatre Guild Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Huguenot Society of America. 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

92 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. 92 of the 153 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/92
Grantees still filing
63/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW (NEW CRITERION): $530,744 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW (NE…The Frick Collection: $225,652 · OtherThe Frick CollectionADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE INC: $167,000 · OtherADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE INCSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE: $82,500 · OtherFIRE: $71,000 · Other+92 more: $802,216 · Other+92 moreTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $524,734 · EducationTHE REASON FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC: $316,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN O…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEWilliams College: $75,000 · EducationWilliams CollegeTHE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $57,450 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationSAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC: $43,100 · Education+10 more: $112,145 · Education+10 moreMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $544,464 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE F…CATO INSTITUTE: $468,258 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE+5 more: $65,500 · Public Benefit+5 moreVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $519,540 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF…VERO BEACH OPERA INC: $180,899 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH OPERA INCRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $116,955 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATRE IN…ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION: $49,500 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $125,800 · Arts & Culture+17 moreINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $66,700 · HealthNATIONAL FABRY DISEASE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $18,900 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $107,400 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $5,400 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL ADIRONDACK PARTNERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY INC: $90,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,879,112Education$1,273,429Public Benefit$1,078,222Arts & Culture$992,694Health$127,600Recreation & Sports$112,800Community Improvement$91,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $544,464 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $524,734 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $519,540 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $468,258 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC: $316,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $225,652 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVERO BEACH OPERA INC: $180,899 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $116,955 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $107,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ADIRONDACK PARTNERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY INC: $90,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetWilliams College: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $57,450 over 4y, 35% of budgetENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION: $49,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC: $43,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $39,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $37,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL FABRY DISEASE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $29,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $28,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH: $24,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $23,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $18,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $18,270 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $18,195 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $16,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Oflag 64 Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetVERO BEACH THEATRE GUILD INC: $11,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $11,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC: $9,690 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBronxville Historical Conservancy Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $6,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLAURA RIDING JACKSON FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetJACKSON HOLE ONE FLY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
  • Who funds VERO BEACH OPERA INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ADIRONDACK PARTNERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY INC ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FABRY DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH ↗
  • Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗

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.

Indian River Communit…Bailey Family Foundat…Donors Trust IncThe Rogers Family Fou…Welsh Family Foundati…The Devito Family Tru…The Kahle Foundation …Sad Foundation IncEquitable Foundation …The Bessemer Giving F…National Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…
Indian River Community Foundation IncFL23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · The Rogers Family Foundation · Welsh Family Foundation Inc · The Devito Family Trust (Fka the Beechmont Foundation) · The Kahle Foundation Inc · Sad Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

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 Kleinschmidt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kleinschmidt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Vero Beach Theatre Guild Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 153 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home