· Private foundation
The Lyndon & Helen M Schmid Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THE LYNDON & HELEN M SCHMID CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COBBLED STREETS | $15,000 |
| APPLETON COMMUNITY MUSIC INC | $10,000 |
| CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN | $6,000 |
| KENTUCKY OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE | $5,000 |
| HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC | $5,000 |
| LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SHAMROCK PET FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 +69% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- BUBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +1%
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +109%
- THTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- SSOSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- HHHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -10%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -5%
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 organization's mission is to reduce the extent and consequences of homelessness in franklin and surrounding counties. this is accomplished by providing two low-barrier shelters that accommodate homeless men, women, and children.…
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
To provide transitional shelter for homeless women and their dependent children while these women are receiving the necessary training and skills to become self sufficient
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Harwood place, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lupus Foundation of America Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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 68 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 BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COBBLED STREETS-HELPING HOMELESS & FOSTER KIDS MOVE FORWARD ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SOS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Appleton Community Music Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds SYCAMORE FARM KY INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds USA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds Hildegard House Incorporated ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PILLARS 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: The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Nicklies Foundation Inc · Wood & Marie Hannah 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 Lyndon & Helen M Schmid Charitable 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.