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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.

$362k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2025
34
Organizations funded FY2024
41%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$32,913
Organizations funded a year
10 to 34
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
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, 41% of the organizations The Schmidbauer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $955k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving32$362k22%
FY202434$1.3M41%
FY202324$354k21%
FY202231$495k26%
FY202126$364k35%
FY202020$248k30%
FY201929$177k62%
FY201810$23k70%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$1000kHealth$618kEducation$565kFood & Nutrition$188kArts & Culture$182kHuman Services$139kPhilanthropy$127kAnimals$126kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 43 grantees
All grantees of The Schmidbauer Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Bernard's Catholic School St Bernard's Academy$230,00024%
Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation$126,00063%
Food for People Inc$125,00060%
Hospice of Humboldt Inc$104,00060%
Boys and Girls Club of the Redwoods$96,32562%
Trinity Scholarship Foundation$75,00048%
Humboldt Senior Resource Center$61,00080%
Court Appointed Special Advocate of Humboldt$50,00023%
Rumble Over the Redwoods Inc$50,00023%
Kinder Kids Montessori Inc$45,000311%
College of the Redwoods Foundation$40,00031%
Humboldt County Fair Association$35,00031%
Lowden Aquatic Park Project - Inc$30,0002n/a
Eureka Rescue Mission$30,00031%
Humboldt Sponsors$27,10086%
Shanel Valley Academy$25,00011%
Weaveverville Fire Department$25,0002n/a
Trinity Food Outreach Inc$22,500310%
Roots of Motive Power Inc$20,00029%
Freshwater Community Club$20,000710%
Northcoast Childrens Services Inc$12,75050%
Humboldt Youth Soccer League Inc$12,00053%
Mad River Youth Soccer League$12,00053%
Friends of the Dunes$12,00050%
Humboldt Arts Council Inc$10,00013%
Humboldt Botanical Gardens Foundation$10,0001n/a
Playhouse Arts$8,00041%
Eureka Symphony$7,50022%
Cal Poly Humboldt Foundation$5,00010%
Golden Age Center$5,0001n/a
Friends of the Redwood Libraries$5,000110%
We Are Up$5,0001n/a
College of the Redwoods$5,0001n/a
Ink People Inc$5,00010%
Humboldt Light Opera Company$5,00013%
Humboldt Swim Club$4,00031%
Rising Stars Foundation$3,5002n/a
Women in Timber$3,0001n/a
Coastal Grove Charter School$2,75050%
Golden Rule Club$2,5001n/a
Humboldt Crabs Baseball Inc$2,00011%
Redwood Raks Collective$1,00011%
Amigos de Fuente Nueva$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Schmidbauer Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Bernard's Catholic School St Bernard's Academy: $230,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSequoia Park Zoo Foundation: $126,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetFood for People Inc: $125,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHospice of Humboldt Inc: $104,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of the Redwoods: $96,325 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTrinity Scholarship Foundation: $75,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetHumboldt Senior Resource Center: $61,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocate of Humboldt: $50,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetRumble Over the Redwoods Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetKinder Kids Montessori Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCollege of the Redwoods Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHumboldt County Fair Association: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEureka Rescue Mission: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHumboldt Sponsors: $27,100 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetShanel Valley Academy: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTrinity Food Outreach Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetRoots of Motive Power Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetFreshwater Community Club: $20,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetNorthcoast Childrens Services Inc: $12,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHumboldt Youth Soccer League Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetMad River Youth Soccer League: $12,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetFriends of the Dunes: $12,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHumboldt Arts Council Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPlayhouse Arts: $8,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEureka Symphony: $7,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCal Poly Humboldt Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Redwood Libraries: $5,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetInk People Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHumboldt Light Opera Company: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHumboldt Swim Club: $4,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCoastal Grove Charter School: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHumboldt Crabs Baseball Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRedwood Raks Collective: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Humboldt Area FoundationCA53.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Schmidbauer Family Foundation

How much does The Schmidbauer Family Foundation give?
The Schmidbauer Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $362,340 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Schmidbauer Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (30%), Health (19%), Education (17%).
Who are The Schmidbauer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Bernard's Catholic School St Bernard's Academy ($230k), Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation ($126k), Food for People Inc ($125k).
Does The Schmidbauer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Schmidbauer 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 Schmidbauer Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Humboldt Area Foundation, Patricia D & William B Smullin Foundation, Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation.
Where is The Schmidbauer Family Foundation based?
The Schmidbauer Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 80 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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