California · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The Schmaier Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $1.2M | 87% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $420k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $267k | 86% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $73k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $10M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Food Safety | $225,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Turning Green | $200,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Free Now Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Environmental Working Group | $120,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Education For Just Peace in Middle East | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Organic Consumers Association | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Independent Medical Alliance | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Town School for Boys | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Schmaier Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Schmaier Family Foundation
- How much does The Schmaier Family Foundation give?
- The Schmaier Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,198,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Schmaier Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (82%), Environment (4%), Social Science (3%).
- Who are The Schmaier Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Center for Food Safety ($225k), Turning Green ($200k), Free Now Foundation ($150k).
- Does The Schmaier Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Schmaier Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Schmaier Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The Schmaier Family Foundation based?
- The Schmaier Family Foundation is based in CA.
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