· Private foundation
The Schmidbauer 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $296k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $32,913 |
| Individual grant recipient | $31,602 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE REDWOODS | $31,325 |
| CASA OF HUMBOLDT | $25,000 |
| ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FOOD FOR PEOPLE | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT | $25,000 |
| RUMBLE OVER THE REDWOODS | $25,000 |
| TRINITY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DELL ARTE INTL PHYSICAL THEATRE | $10,000 |
| HUMBOLDT BOTANICAL GARDENS FDN | $10,000 |
| HUMBOLDT SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| HUMBOLDT SPONSORS | $6,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION (ALZ ASSN) | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 100% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- SBST BERNARD'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL ST BERNARD'S ACADEMY2× · 2023–2024 · $230k · revenue +26%
- FFFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +38%
- HOHOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC6× · 2019–2025 · $104k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- DQDREAM QUEST YOUTH CENTERone grant, 2024 · $866k
- SUSFA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- SVSHANEL VALLEY ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +46%
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.
To provide quality child care in an environment that engages young minds through learning and play.
The Friends of Huddart and Wunderlich Parks is a group of park enthusiasts and stewards who provide a wide range of programs and events in two historic redwood parks in the heart of the Bay Area. We lead hikes, provide environmental…
The Organization's mission is to provide temporary sanctuary and shelter for unwanted, lost and neglected animals, to promote the humane care and treatment of dogs and cats through education, and to actively advocate pet popluation control.
Acquiring, creating, preserving interpreting, and disseminating historic information and assisting others to do the same.
The Athletic Booster Club provides financial support for the Humboldt Community School District's middle and high school, grades 7-12.
Provide art exhibition for the public and members and further the spread of art in humboldt county.
To provide support support and community based media programs to the public. Access Humboldt establishes and operates a community media access center and serves access viewers with programming reflecting the activities, concerns, diversity…
Provide a community food pantry to low-income residents in Humboldt County.
Southern Humboldt Community Park's mission is to own, operate and maintain the park land & buildings for the benefit of the southern Humboldt community & the general public.
Support the Humboldt Community School District through maintaining, developing, increasing, and extending facilities and services available. To make contributions, grants, gifts, and transfer of property, both real and personal, for the…
Humboldt Made is a community of Makers, Artisans, Entrepreneurs, Farmers and local Leaders who drive sustainable ideas and change across the Redwood Coast economy. We execute projects that positively impact our communities through public…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humboldt County Fair Association and the most unlike its peers is Weaveverville Fire Department. 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 25 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 80 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 ST BERNARD'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL ST BERNARD'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SEQUOIA PARK ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of the Redwoods ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humboldt Senior Resource Center ↗
- Who funds RUMBLE OVER THE REDWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocate of Humboldt ↗
- Who funds Kinder Kids Montessori Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humboldt County Fair Association ↗
- Who funds EUREKA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HUMBOLDT SPONSORS ↗
- Who funds SHANEL VALLEY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WEAVEVERVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds TRINITY FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds FRESHWATER COMMUNITY CLUB ↗
- Who funds ROOTS OF MOTIVE POWER INC ↗
- Who funds Northcoast Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DUNES ↗
- Who funds Humboldt Youth Soccer League Inc ↗
- Who funds MAD RIVER YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE ↗
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: Humboldt Area Foundation · Patricia D & William B Smullin Foundation · Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation · Coast Central Credit Union · Andree Wagner Peace Trust UTD 121289 · St Joseph Hospital of Eureka · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Humboldt Health Foundation · The Bob and Jennie Canevari Foundation Inc · Vintage Bmw House · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good
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 Schmidbauer 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.
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.