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The Schmaier Family 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Philanthropy$10MEnvironment$465kSocial Science$340kInternational$330kFood & Nutrition$255kScience & Tech$250kCivil Rights$195kHealth$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY$200,000
TURNING GREEN$200,000
FREE NOW FOUNDATION$150,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$150,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$120,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$100,000
INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE$50,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$50,000
ORGANIC CONSUMER ASSOCIATION$50,000
ORGANICEYE INC$30,000
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$25,000
THE KIRSCH FOUNDATION$25,000
HUMANS OF SAN QUENTIN$20,000
MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION$17,000
MEN'S SECOND CHANCE LIVING$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WELCOMING HOME: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ID
MN
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
AZ
NM
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$864k · 9 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$864k
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

89%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $853k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentFood & NutritionReligionOther

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

  • Center for Food Safety
    2× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue +45%
  • EW
    ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP
    3× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +35%
  • TS
    TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • PF
    President Fellows of Harvard Colleg
    one grant, 2020 · $10M
  • Education For Just Peace in Middle East
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • UF
    USA FOR UNFPA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
5
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
6
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
7
Toxic-Free Future F/K/a Washington Toxics Coalition

As a national leader in environmental health research and advocacy, toxic- free future uses the power of science, education, and activism, to drive strong laws and corporate responsibility that protect the health of all people and the…

Environment
8
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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9
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
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
12
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Defense and the most unlike its peers is Taos Pueblo Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Jewish Community FederationsCommunity Health CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Classical Music EnsemblesChristian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support OrganizationsSubstance Abuse TreatmentYouth Development CentersYouth Sports Booster Organi…Independent K-8 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%9%<5yr14%18%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr14%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%11%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%47%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr14%21%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,322

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
17/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

President Fellows of Harvard Colleg — $10,000,000 · OtherPresident Fellows of Harvard Colleg+17 more — $620,000 · Other+17 moreTurning Green — $200,000 · HealthFREE NOW FOUNDATION — $150,000 · HealthINDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE — $50,000 · HealthThe Kirsch Foundation — $25,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $250,000 · EducationTOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS — $40,000 · EducationRiekes Center for Human Enhancement — $30,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · Education+2 more — $13,000 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $150,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $100,000 · InternationalEducation For Just Peace in Middle East — $50,000 · InternationalA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $25,000 · InternationalCenter for Food Safety — $225,000 · Food & NutritionORGANICEYE INC — $30,000 · Food & NutritionENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $120,000 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE — $20,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $10,000 · EnvironmentORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · Public BenefitHUMANS OF SAN QUENTIN — $20,000 · Public Benefit
Other$10,620,000Health$450,000Education$358,000International$325,000Food & Nutrition$255,000Environment$150,000Public Benefit$70,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Food Safety — $225,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTurning Green — $200,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $120,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEducation For Just Peace in Middle East — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUSA FOR UNFPA INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStern Grove Festival Association — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRiekes Center for Human Enhancement — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANS OF SAN QUENTIN — $20,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCHILENO BAY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAOS PUEBLO FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEN'S SECOND CHANCE LIVING — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERFAITH CENTER AT THE PRESIDIO — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWelcoming Home — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWorking on Wellness Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…The Board of Trustees…ImpactassetsincThe Yelp FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Boston Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Tides Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY15.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Impactassetsinc · The Yelp Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides 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 Schmaier Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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