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The Schmidt Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$185M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
695
Grants FY2024
527
Organizations funded FY2023
26%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$130,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000,000
Organizations funded a year
294 to 527
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
49
Total assets, FY2024
$2.0B
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations The Schmidt Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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
FY2024still arriving665$168M31%
FY2023527$122M26%
FY2022464$104M34%
FY2021348$78M36%
FY2020352$85M46%
FY2019294$67Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$266MInternational$85MFood & Nutrition$59MCivil Rights$42MPhilanthropy$40MArts & Culture$37MCommunity Improvement$33MEducation$31MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Human Rights Watch Inc$29,630,00069%
Sustainable Markets Foundation$24,016,750624%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$23,030,00067%
Grist Magazine Inc$13,500,000657%
Climate Central Inc$13,075,000537%
Kqed Inc$9,000,00053%
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation$8,135,000469%
Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc$7,500,000222%
Conservation X Labs Inc$6,800,885657%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$6,773,00066%
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All grantees of The Schmidt Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Human Rights Watch Inc$29,630,00069%
Sustainable Markets Foundation$24,016,750624%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$23,030,00067%
Grist Magazine Inc$13,500,000657%
Climate Central Inc$13,075,000537%
Kqed Inc$9,000,00053%
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation$8,135,000469%
Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc$7,500,000222%
Conservation X Labs Inc$6,800,885657%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$6,773,00066%
National Public Radio Inc$6,533,33441%
Apparel Impact Institute$6,085,000636%
Fund for Global Human Rights Inc$5,956,22555%
Greenpeace Fund Inc$4,863,50068%
California Farmlink$3,850,300528%
Communities for a Better Environment$3,615,000618%
First Nations Development Institute$3,575,00064%
Sogorea Te Land Trust$3,475,000425%
Movement Strategy Center$3,202,00065%
Realize Impact$3,200,000114%
University of Chicago$3,157,97140%
Columbia Riverkeeper$3,150,000633%
Center on Race Poverty & the Environment$3,028,600534%
The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress$2,950,00056%
Multiplier$2,945,00062%
Physicians for Social Responsibility$2,804,000620%
Sustainable Economies Law Center$2,796,000614%
Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Sustainable and Healthy Energy Inc$2,700,000635%
Guardianorg Foundation$2,600,000617%
Oo Project$2,570,000528%
University of Washington$2,552,8595n/a
Community Alliance With Family Farmers$2,550,000617%
Justice Outside$2,521,500419%
Pesticide Action Network North America$2,479,000622%
Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project$2,405,000510%
Inquiring Systems Inc$2,349,500611%
Clean Ocean Access Inc$2,337,039571%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$2,335,00060%
Earthworks$2,322,50066%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$2,260,50061%
The Voter Participation Center$2,250,00042%
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center$2,246,187620%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$2,227,0775n/a
New York University$2,200,00050%
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc$2,168,500516%
Institute for Local Self Reliance$2,166,500615%
Inclusive Development International$2,155,000532%
Voteorg$2,050,000261%
Accountability Counsel$2,050,000440%
Earthjustice$1,975,00041%
Earth Island Institute Inc$1,952,50052%
Groundswell International Inc$1,854,700517%
New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc$1,825,000530%
Oil Change International Inc$1,810,000615%
Community Initiatives$1,777,24151%
Common Market Philadelphia Inc$1,775,000613%
Missouri Rural Crisis Center$1,760,000626%
Ada's Cafe$1,741,000557%
Ocean Research & Conservation Association Inc$1,696,500622%
New Media Advocacy Project Inc$1,685,000547%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network$1,685,000610%
Delaware Riverkeeper Network$1,625,000618%
Land Stewardship Project$1,625,000616%
Ekvnv Yefolecvlke$1,600,00055%
Pie Ranch$1,592,500612%
Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc$1,584,527555%
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement$1,580,000619%
National Young Farmers Coalition Inc$1,555,00065%
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability$1,530,00066%
Solon Center For Research And Publishing$1,525,000553%
Gofundmeorg$1,500,000110%
Center for International Environmental Law Inc$1,500,00066%
CalMatters$1,475,00055%
Community Water Center$1,410,00069%
The American Independent Foundation$1,400,00022%
Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation$1,400,000226%
Amah Mutsun Land Trust$1,330,000512%
Food Chain Workers Alliance$1,320,000628%
University of San Francisco$1,319,00040%
Catchafire Foundation$1,314,500617%
Rogue Climate$1,313,500637%
Voter Registration Project$1,300,00022%
Ocean Visions Inc$1,300,000571%
Mango Materials Inc$1,295,0004n/a
350org$1,235,00043%
Synergia - Initiatives for Human Rights$1,230,000533%
Fibershed$1,220,000615%
Center for Coalfield Justice$1,210,500517%
Wildearth Guardians$1,203,00067%
Rural Advancement Foundation Internation$1,200,000611%
Mountain Watershed Association Inc$1,200,000611%
New Energy Economy Inc$1,184,000438%
Northeastern University$1,175,00060%
North Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec$1,165,000518%
Central California Environmental Justice Network$1,160,00039%
Community Partners$1,155,00061%
Comite Civico del Valle Inc$1,134,000217%
Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund$1,126,000624%
University of California Santa Barbara$1,125,6073n/a
Oil & Gas Action Network$1,125,000565%
Environmental Health Coalition$1,118,00045%
Jobs with Justice San Francisco$1,100,000530%
Consumer Watchdog$1,100,00066%
Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania$1,085,000671%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute$1,050,00021%
Hmong American Farmers Association$1,050,000614%
Swaniti Initiative$1,045,000122%
Sharing Our Roots$1,040,000639%
Fractracker Alliance$1,040,000626%
Fisheye Collaborative Inc$1,023,0001n/a
Friends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration$1,006,500448%
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College$1,006,0003n/a
People Food and Land Foundation$1,004,900468%
Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc$1,003,500612%
US Climate Action Network$1,000,000316%
Deep Medicine Circle$1,000,000430%
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc$1,000,000628%
Southwest Ga Project for Community Education Inc$1,000,000525%
Yale University$996,0003n/a
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy$987,000615%
Greenwave Organization Corp$950,000517%
Voices for a Sustainable Future$950,000526%
The Earth Genome$950,000221%
Imagine H2O Inc$950,000415%
The Neighborhood Recycling Corporation$947,50052%
North American Marine Alliance Inc$940,000534%
Breach Collective$916,000594%
Louisiana Bucket Brigade$915,000425%
Kua Aina Ulu Auamo$915,000526%
Alliance for a Green Economy Inc$907,000657%
People's Action Institute$900,00035%
Clean Energy Works$900,000421%
National Black Food and Justice Alliance$900,00025%
Circle of Life Connection$898,000526%
Regenerative Agriculture Alliance$890,000319%
Illuminative Inc$884,00014%
Radio Workshop US Inc$880,000552%
We Are Healers Inc$875,000373%
Cultural Survival Inc$871,50065%
Civil Liberties Defense Center$860,000630%
Native Conservancy$855,000314%
Plant a Million Corals Foundation Inc$850,000485%
Earth Care International Earth Care New Mexico$850,000456%
Indivisible Civics$850,00049%
Cec Stuyvesant Cove Inc$850,00064%
The Oakland Institute$850,000456%
The Praxis Project Inc$845,00053%
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services$845,000521%
Center for Rural Affairs$830,00062%
Spark Northwest$805,000617%
Pacoima Beautiful$800,00068%
Capital B News Inc$800,00037%
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc$800,000515%
Land Together Dba Insight Garden Program$800,000320%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$800,00041%
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network$800,000431%
Alliance for a Just Society$800,00027%
Center for Food Safety$795,000511%
California Institute for Rural Studies$787,000553%
Community Movement Builders Inc$783,000418%
Greenfaith Inc$780,000412%
Bishop Museum$775,00023%
Buckminster Fuller Institute$775,000311%
Verde Inc$775,00056%
International Rivers Network$770,000231%
Black Women for Wellness$750,00056%
Ocean Conservancy$745,00051%
Activate Global Inc$722,02425%
Earthrights International Inc$720,00054%
Urban Tilth$715,00035%
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation$710,000418%
California Environmental Justice Alliance$705,00024%
Crag Law Center$700,00069%
Native American Rights Fund Inc$700,00022%
Fresno Food Commons Trust$700,000176%
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy$700,000521%
Partnershipforciviljusticefund$700,000421%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$700,00010%
Nextgen Education Fund$700,00032%
Fuller Project for International Reporting Inc$700,000413%
Sustainable Coastlines Hawai'I$695,000523%
Naca-Inspired Schools Network$675,00035%
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide$675,00048%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$675,0003n/a
Honor the Earth$675,000511%
Sightline Institute$675,00067%
South Africa Development Fund Inc$670,037418%
Meridian Institute$667,80051%
Indij Public Media$660,00029%
The Aspen Institute Inc$655,00040%
Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct$650,000624%
Witness Inc$650,00045%
Perpetual Use Inc$650,000234%
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre$650,00054%
University System of New Hampshire$650,0002n/a
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$650,00031%
Namati Inc$650,00044%
Congressional Progressive Caucus Center$650,000417%
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management$640,00050%
Thousand Currents$626,00042%
Yale University$625,0002n/a
Rural Coalition$615,00045%
Center for Transnational Environmental Accountability Inc$612,340431%
Uc Law Sf Foundation$611,71133%
Native Movement$610,00034%
Promote Pt$605,000629%
Carrizo Comecrudo Nation of Texas Inc$600,000422%
Southwest Organizing Project$600,000317%
Intertribal Agriculture Council$600,00032%
Capital & Main$600,00056%
Californians Against Waste Foundation$600,000630%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund$600,00054%
Lewis & Clark College$600,00050%
The Story of Stuff Project$595,000414%
A Greener World$580,00065%
Empowered by Light$576,120286%
Children of the Setting Sun Product$575,000219%
Cultural Fire Management Council$575,000221%
Dakota Rural Action$575,000616%
Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice$575,00035%
Center for Common Ground$575,00039%
Stand$560,00052%
YES Nature to Neighborhoods$550,00048%
Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc$550,000328%
Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc$550,00046%
Ytt Northern Chumash Nonprofit$550,0003n/a
Stockholm Environment Institute US Inc$550,00033%
Virginia Organizing Inc$540,00062%
Friends of the Earth$535,00051%
Indigenous Environmental Network$530,400310%
Mothers Out Front Inc$525,00064%
Civil Eats$525,000223%
Buckeye Environmental Network$525,000546%
The Film Collaborative Inc$525,00014%
Canticle Farm$520,000130%
Chesapeake Bay Trust$516,00021%
Rocking the Boat Inc$515,66763%
Save the Bay Inc$504,00052%
Rhode Island Food Policy Council$502,500321%
Rena Flying Coyote Collective$502,000252%
Farm Action$500,000541%
Alianza Americas$500,00047%
The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc$500,000121%
Justice Action Center$500,000114%
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/A American Green Bank Consortium$500,00012%
The National Religious Partnership for the Environment Inc$500,000271%
The Marshall Project Inc$500,00041%
Public Justice Foundation$500,00042%
No One Left Behind$500,00013%
Ecotrust$499,20033%
Save the Waves Coalition$490,000414%
Deep South Center for Environmental$487,00043%
Mariposa DR Foundation$485,000517%
Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno$477,50045%
Resources Legacy Fund$476,80030%
La Semilla Food Center$475,00045%
Illumine Service Foundation Inc$470,500364%
Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help$465,000533%
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence$465,00010%
Center for Third World Organizing$465,00059%
Groundwork Rhode Island$463,000414%
La Compost$461,500314%
Youth Mentoring Action Network$451,000216%
Water Foundation$450,00031%
Rocky Mountain Institute$450,00011%
Public Accountability Initiative Inc$450,000425%
Social Good Labs Incorporated$450,000316%
Ventures$450,00054%
New America Foundation$450,00031%
People United for Sustainable Housing Inc$450,00044%
Global Growers Network Inc$450,000512%
American Journalism Project Inc$450,00031%
Dream of Wild Health$450,00038%
Karuk Tribe$447,5003n/a
Far Away Projects$447,000244%
Wukchumni Tribe$445,000449%
Society of Native Nations$440,000417%
The Ocean Foundation$434,80052%
North Side Learning Center of Syracuse$433,0001n/a
Freedom Inc$425,00045%
American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education$425,00040%
Healthy Gulf$425,000412%
The Wilderness Society$425,00031%
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders$422,50056%
Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science Inc$421,000334%
Sundance Institute$401,50030%
Inclusive Prosperity Capital Inc$401,50042%
Jubilee Justice Inc$401,500113%
The or Foundation Ltd$400,00024%
Solar United Neighbors Inc$400,00042%
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives$400,00023%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc$400,00022%
Breast Cancer Action$400,000513%
Four Directions - Rfa$400,000124%
Sports Creative Foundation$400,000444%
North Carolina Coastal Federation Inc$397,50042%
Infact DBA Corporate Accountability$395,00061%
Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation$395,00022%
Marine Applied Research and Exploration$393,585517%
Town of Nantucket$392,9966n/a
Socially Responsible Agriculture Project Inc$388,50065%
Unkitawa$385,00025%
Bard College$384,00030%
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy$382,97645%
Martin Luther King Community Center Incorporated$380,00042%
Keres Children's Learning Center$376,00036%
Cooperacin Santa Ana$375,696212%
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice$375,00023%
Community Agroecology Network$375,000511%
Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment$375,000417%
The Semilla Project$375,000258%
The New Press Inc$375,00045%
Great Basin Resource Watch$375,000365%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy$370,00033%
Movement Generation$370,000510%
Mississippi Center for Cultural Production$370,00039%
Owens Valley Indian Water Commission$370,0002n/a
Akiing 8th Fire$365,000210%
Purple Maia Foundation$360,00044%
Bennington College Corporation$360,00020%
River Valley Organizing$360,000422%
Sail Newport$355,00054%
Amazon Watch Inc$350,00044%
The Reckoning Project$350,000217%
Pratt Institute$350,00010%
Association of Ramaytush Ohlone$350,000324%
Clientearth USA Inc$350,00016%
Grassroots International Inc$350,00032%
Neighborhood Funders Group$350,00042%
The Center for Public Integrity$350,00036%
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators$350,00035%
National Urban Indian Family Coalition$350,00018%
Uncommon Law$350,00033%
Pueblo of Picuris$350,0001n/a
Save California Salmon$350,000318%
Washington Maritime Blue$350,00048%
Ocean Discovery League Inc$345,000335%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$340,11750%
Black Women in Ecology Evolution and Marine Science Inc$335,000337%
Community Networking Resources Inc$330,0003n/a
The Labor Institute Inc$330,000222%
State Innovation Exchange$325,00051%
Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine$325,000315%
Billion Oyster Project Inc$325,00052%
Community Boating Center Inc$323,00057%
Environmental Defender Law Center$320,000419%
Ohio River Valley Environmental Coalition$320,000229%
Cultiva La Salud$320,00029%
Soundwaters Inc$319,99954%
Schmidt Ocean Institute$315,00013%
Progressive Multiplier Fund$314,000112%
National Save The Family Farm Coalition$310,000318%
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc$302,00041%
Borealis Philanthropy$300,00030%
State Voices$300,00031%
Chinese Progressive Association$300,00031%
Rural Advantage$300,0001n/a
Sustainable Iowa Land Trust$300,000319%
Ocean Discovery Institute$300,00062%
Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri$300,00014%
Save The Bay$300,00033%
Thistle Farms Inc$300,00031%
The University Foundation California State University Chico$300,00021%
Smartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy$300,000211%
The Regeneration Project$300,000214%
Blueprint North Carolina$300,00027%
Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund$300,00018%
Croatan Institute$300,000310%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc$300,00031%
Ndn Collective Inc$300,00030%
International Center for Not-For-Profit Law Inc$300,00022%
FoodWhat Incorporated$300,00046%
Hopa Mountain Inc$300,000212%
Open Imagery Network Inc$300,00017%
Root & Rebound$300,00033%
Respond Crisis Translation$300,000220%
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund$300,00033%
Transgender Law Center$300,00031%
350 Vermont Inc$300,000141%
For Love of Water$300,000312%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$300,00030%
Building Decarbonization Coalition$300,00021%
Western Iowa Journalism Foundation$300,000336%
BYP100 Education Fund$300,00035%
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation$295,00052%
Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project$295,000410%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$290,00020%
Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto$290,00037%
Upstream$286,0002n/a
Invest Appalachia Inc$280,00025%
Somos Un Pueblo Unido$280,00029%
High Country News$275,00016%
Lhaq'Temish Foundation$275,00025%
The Ciesla Foundation$275,000136%
Sawalmem$275,0001n/a
Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Assoc$275,000417%
Santa Barbara County Food Action Network$275,000353%
Datakind Inc$275,00015%
Maidu Summit Consortium$275,000311%
Common Future$272,50022%
Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods C/O Melanie Stevenson$270,00035%
Village Health Works$265,00023%
Friends of Tryon Creek$265,00048%
The University of the Virgin Islands$260,00020%
New Urban Arts$260,00037%
University of Hawaii Foundation$256,00020%
Polynesian Voyaging Society$255,000310%
Panorama Global$254,00010%
Hope Enterprise Corporation$250,00011%
Regents of the University of California$250,0001n/a
Capaces Leadership Institute$250,00033%
World Neighbors Inc$250,00013%
Tewa Women United$250,00022%
International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc$250,00024%
Everyday People for Change Inc$250,000114%
Experiment Foundation$250,000152%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc$250,00021%
Bluedot Institute Inc$250,000342%
Charitable Ventures of Orange County$250,00030%
350 Colorado$250,000127%
Heart of America Indian Center$250,000214%
Cradle to Cradle Products Innovatio Institute Inc$250,000110%
Americares Foundation Inc$250,00010%
Hudson River Community Sailing Inc$250,00054%
Center for American Progress$250,00011%
Labc Institute$250,000316%
Protect Democracy Project$250,00010%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$250,00011%
Grid Alternatives Greater Los Angeles Inc$250,0003n/a
Frack Action Fund Inc$250,000341%
Pacific Blue Foundation$250,000127%
Prime Coalition Inc$250,00012%
Wildaid Inc$250,00016%
Farm Aid Inc$245,00052%
Friends of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park$245,000238%
Rural Community Workers Alliance$240,000441%
Operation Spring Plant$240,000315%
National Wildlife Federation$235,00020%
Zuni Youth Enrichment Project$230,00035%
Newport Film Inc$230,00067%
Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc$230,00053%
Environmental Grantmakers Association$230,00062%
Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education$230,00035%
New Mexico Community Capital$230,00032%
Minorities in Shark Sciences Inc$225,000222%
Borderlands Restoration Network$225,00036%
Indigenous Lifeways$225,000420%
Saje$225,00033%
Clean Air Coalition of Western New York Inc$225,000219%
Potlikker Capital$225,00027%
Spur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association$225,00042%
Continental Divide Trail Coalition$225,00045%
Clean Up the River Environment$225,000211%
Blue Bird LifeWays$225,000411%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State$225,00023%
Barrel Bag$220,000119%
Center for Contemplative Justice$220,000259%
The Trustees of Reservations$220,00030%
Black Sustainability Inc$220,000240%
Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation$217,41045%
A Growing Culture$215,000239%
Regeneration International$210,500277%
University of California Davis$210,0002n/a
Youth in Action Inc$210,000311%
Black Owners of Solar Services$200,00018%
Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc)$200,000216%
The Asia Society$200,00011%
Great Plains Action Society$200,000216%
Vote Solar$200,00021%
Opal$200,000122%
Solutions Project Inc$200,00026%
Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation Inc$200,00016%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$200,00013%
Kitchen Table Advisors$200,00013%
Coming Clean Inc$200,00024%
Western Environmental Law Center$200,00032%
Northern Plains Resource Council$200,00034%
DTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital$200,000110%
The Blueprint Foundation$200,00029%
New Mexico Voices for Children$200,00027%
Magical Bridge Foundation$200,000210%
The Working Lands Trust Inc$200,000114%
Southeast Climate & Energy Network$200,000125%
UndauntedK12$200,00019%
Catskill Mountainkeeper Inc$200,00036%
CalCef Innovations$200,00024%
Justice Funders$200,00027%
Energy Peace Partners$200,000212%
Earth Land and Water Stewardship$200,0001n/a
Rhode Island School Recycling Project$193,000248%
Jackson Hole Land Trust$190,00013%
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance$188,000212%
Composting Council Research and Education Foundation$188,000339%
Urban Rivers Inc$187,000212%
Sea Research Foundation Inc$185,00021%
Chicago Maritime Arts Center$185,000653%
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice$185,00026%
American Shore & Beach Preservation Association$184,000216%
Farmers Union Foundation$180,00035%
The Democracy Collaborative Foundation Inc$175,00016%
The Vieques Conservation and Historical Trust Inc$175,000213%
Akiptan Inc$175,00021%
Center for Ecotechnology Inc$175,00031%
Verified Voting Foundation$175,00034%
Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point$175,0001n/a
Sacred Lands Conservancy$175,000263%
Floodlight Inc$175,00019%
Seacology$169,00042%
Ridge to Reefs Inc$166,500211%
Science & Environmental Health Network$165,000215%
Friendship House Association of American Indians Inc$165,00022%
Bay Mills Indian Community$160,0002n/a
Mystic River Watershed Association Inc$158,00022%
La Plazita Institute$155,00025%
Nantucket Preservation Trust Inc$152,500311%
Interstate Renewable Energy Council$150,00012%
Young Women Empowered$150,00024%
Little Village Environmental Justice Org$150,00023%
Makoce Agriculture Development$150,00026%
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc$150,00010%
First Americans Museum Foundation$150,00012%
School of Leadership-Afghanistan Inc$150,00022%
Root Capital Inc$150,00011%
Xinewh-Ding Inc$150,000148%
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center$150,00054%
Gulf Reach Institute$150,000295%
Conservation International Foundation$150,00020%
Encuentro5 Inc$150,0002n/a
Ink People Inc$150,00016%
Elemental Excelerator Inc$150,00011%
The People's Fund$150,00027%
Center for Sustainable Economy$150,000124%
Conservation Legacy$150,00010%
The Center for Cultural Power$150,00012%
Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment$150,000313%
We the People of Detroit$150,00029%
Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival$150,000145%
Center for Native Futures$150,000114%
Se Si Le$150,000223%
Mycelium Youth Network$150,000112%
Black Outside Inc$150,000313%
Muchia Te Indigenous Land Trust$150,000189%
Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network$145,000244%
Rios to Rivers$140,00037%
Massachusetts Oyster Project Inc$140,000345%
Nourish Nantucket Inc$140,000212%
The Peoples Land Fund$138,00023%
Southeast Environmental Task Force$135,00025%
North American Native Research and Education Foundation Inc$130,00038%
The Surfrider Foundation$130,00030%
Nantucket Historical Association$129,00031%
Trustees of Boston University$128,00010%
Eco-Justice Collaborative Nfp$125,000245%
Village Micro Fund$125,000115%
Portland Art Museum$125,00010%
Alaska Public Interest Research Group$125,00017%
Coalfield Development Corporation$125,00020%
Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund$125,00014%
The Food Project Association$125,00017%
Climate Resilient Communities$125,00025%
Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council$125,000253%
Franklins Promise Coalition Inc$123,66724%
Center of Southwest Culture Inc$120,00033%
Partnership for Community Action$120,00019%
Wilderness Youth Project Inc$120,00031%
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women$120,00025%
Northern Youth Project$120,000332%
Big Green$120,00012%
Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance$120,00012%
Front Line USA Foundation$115,000312%
Carbon Tracker Initiative Inc$115,000110%
Project Bike Love$115,0002n/a
Grow Dat Youth Farm$115,00025%
Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association In$114,50042%
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation$113,00020%
Save the Sound$111,00021%
Nest Inc$110,00023%
Clean Water Fund$110,00022%
Feed the Hunger Fund$105,00013%
Foundation for Louisiana$105,00012%
Environment California Research and Policy Center$105,000410%
Boston Harbor Now Inc$104,00012%
Partnership for Southern Equity$102,50021%
The Philanthropy Workshop Inc Dba Forward Global$100,00012%
Unmanageable$100,000126%
Project South Inc$100,00019%
Spelman College$100,00010%
Initiate Justice$100,00013%
Environmental Working Group$100,00020%
Sandiego350$100,000146%
Standing Rock Community Development$100,00019%
Working America Education Fund$100,00010%
Dreamorg$100,00012%
Environmental Protection Network$100,00013%
Disability Rights Fund Inc$100,00021%
New Jersey Conservation Foundation$100,00012%
Farm Hack$100,0001n/a
The Working World Inc$100,00011%
Resource Media$100,00012%
Sudanese American Physicians Assn$100,00011%
Nantucket Boys and Girls Club Inc$100,00012%
Smithsonian Institution$100,00010%
Situ Studio LLC$100,0001n/a
Lexicon of Sustainability Inc$100,000110%
Chicago Food Policy Action Council$100,00015%
Hispanics in Philanthropy$100,00010%
Third Act Education Fund Inc$100,00014%
Pennsylvania Voice$100,00011%
Kartemquin Educational Films$100,00012%
Center for Responsible Travel$100,000117%
The New School$100,00010%
United States Deep Caving Team Inc$100,0001n/a
Just Transition Alliance$100,00012%
The Roosevelt Institute$100,00011%
Catskills Agrarian Alliance Inc$100,00016%
Iowa State University$100,0001n/a
More in Common Inc$100,00014%
San Jose Conservation Corps$100,00011%
The Trustees of Princeton University$100,00010%
The Land Institute$100,00011%
Resolve Inc$100,00011%
Rimta Foundation$100,000149%
Internet Archive$100,00010%
Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc$100,00011%
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice$100,000110%
Illinois Stewardship Alliance$100,00014%
Kanu I Ka Pono Inc$100,0001n/a
The Descendants Project$100,00014%
San Diego Food System Alliance$100,00015%
The Hack Foundation D/B/A Hack Club$100,00010%
Acknow Community Initiatives Inc$100,000140%
Digital Green Foundation$100,00011%
Redford Center Inc$100,00022%
Pit River Tribe$100,0001n/a
Ffwd$100,00010%
Climate First Replacing Oil & Gas$97,750311%
The Street Trust Community Fund$97,00026%
International Documentary Foundation Inc$95,00030%
Protectores de Cuencas Inc$94,00013%
The University of Texas Foundation Inc$92,00020%
Fossil Free California$90,000322%
Inchelium Language and Culture Association$90,000214%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$90,00040%
The Marcom Institute$90,000169%
California State University Fresno Foundation$90,00010%
Barnstable County$88,0001n/a
Community Vision Capital & Consulting$86,25011%
Marine Technology Society Inc$85,00023%
Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks$85,00039%
University of South Florida Foundation Inc$81,69810%
Teaching With Small Boats Alliance Inc$80,0002n/a
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Inc$80,00033%
Draft Animal Power Network Inc$80,000145%
Organization for Competitive Markets$77,500129%
The Fab Foundation$75,00011%
The Free History Project Inc$75,000218%
One Ocean Media Foundation$75,000212%
Black Appalachian Coalition$75,00016%
Just Zero$75,000111%
Pastors United Community Advocacy Inc$75,00014%
American Friends of Concordia University$75,000116%
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living$75,000123%
Water Protector Legal Collective$75,0001n/a
Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research$75,00016%
Food System 6 Accelerator Inc$75,00016%
Apano Communities United Fund$75,00013%
Nantucket Community Music Center$75,00063%
Puget Sound Sage$75,00013%
Sicangu Community Development Corporation$75,00014%
Public Citizen Foundation Inc$75,00011%
Indian Country Grassroots Support$75,00039%
Hawaii Institute of Pacific Agriculture$75,00026%
Fractured Atlas Inc$75,00010%
The Explorers Club$75,00030%
Michigan State University$75,0001n/a
Aquidneck Island Land Trust$75,00013%
Coalition of Communities of Color$75,0001n/a
Raft Foundation Inc$75,0001100%
Mahchiwminahnahtik Chippewa and Cree Language Revitalization$75,00025%
Semillero de Ideas$75,00019%
Urban Green Council$75,00013%
Radical Monarchs$75,00015%
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund Inc$75,00017%
National Harm Reduction Coalition$75,00011%
Connecticut College$70,00020%
Community Boating Center Inc$68,000212%
Nantucket Film Foundation Inc$67,50033%
Bike Newport$65,00024%
Re-Volv$65,000110%
Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network (Siren)$64,00013%
International Tennis Hall of Fame Incorporated$60,00020%
Wallowa Resources Inc$60,00021%
Treasure Island Sailing Center Foundation$60,00025%
East Palo Alto Tennis & Tutoring$60,00051%
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships$60,00011%
Environmental Coalition of South Seattle$60,00022%
Dine We Can$60,000141%
Henry L Ferguson Museum$60,00013%
Columbia River Institute for Indigenous$60,000155%
Mad Agriculture$60,00012%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc$60,00021%
Nantucket Sustainable Development Corporation$59,00068%
Conanicut Island Sailing Foundation$55,00012%
Institute for Enhanced Equity$55,00014%
Big Blue & You Inc$50,000142%
Friends of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees Inc$50,000114%
Bonafide Inc$50,00017%
Early Vibes Inc$50,0001n/a
Alliance for Affordable Energy$50,00018%
Euchee Yuchi Language Project Inc$50,00012%
Middle East Children's Alliance$50,00011%
Shelterwood Collective$50,00012%
Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis Inc$50,00011%
Coda Media Inc$50,00018%
Institute for Washingtons Future$50,00013%
Shared Spaces Foundation$50,00014%
Skylight Engagement Inc$50,000110%
Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership Inc$50,000122%
Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc$50,00014%
Rural Roots Louisiana$50,0001n/a
Vellore Christian Medical College Foundation Inc$50,00011%
Mate Inspiration for Innovation$50,00017%
Westwood Greenway Inc$50,0002n/a
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$50,00010%
Potomac Riverkeeper Network$50,00013%
Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy$50,00012%
Rhode Island Environmental Education Association Inc (RIEEA)$50,000221%
Clean Air Council$50,0001n/a
Japanese American National Museum$50,00010%
Every Campus a Refuge$50,00015%
Sustainable Seattle$50,00013%
Oregon Environmental Council$50,00012%
Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation$50,00010%
Forth Mobility Fund$50,00013%
Resilient Power Puerto Rico Inc$50,000138%
Sierra Club Foundation$50,00010%
Institute for Local Government$50,00012%
Cambiar Education$50,00010%
Transformca dba Transform$50,00011%
Arizona Native Vote$50,00013%
Delivering Good Inc$50,00010%
Protect Elizabeth Townshipinc$50,000137%
Opencollective Foundation$50,00011%
Moonjelly Foundation$50,000125%
Climate Rights International$50,00013%
Youth Forward$49,00013%
Nantucket Land & Water Council Inc$48,50013%
Youth Sailing Foundation of Indian River$48,00032%
Community Alliance for Global Justice$46,12625%
California Community Land Trust Network$45,00015%
Soil Carbon Coalition$45,000260%
Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District$45,00025%
Carbon Cycle Institute$43,50015%
Issue One$40,00020%
Outdoor Afro$40,00011%
Archcity Defenders$40,00012%
7G Foundation$40,000145%
Klamath Tribal Health$40,0001n/a
Nature for All$40,00015%
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc$40,00010%
Slow Food USA Inc$40,00022%
New Mexico Fund for Women and Girls$40,00012%
The Next 100 Syndicate$40,00013%
Rogue Action Center$40,00017%
Pandion Institute$40,000122%
Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy dba Bay Area Book Festival$40,00022%
Turning Green$37,50012%
Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet$35,00021%
Whyhunger Inc$35,00010%
Meta Foundation$35,000216%
Social Movement Technologies Foundation Inc$33,20023%
Cornell University$32,00010%
University of Illinois Foundation$30,50010%
Independent Arts & Media$30,00011%
Got Green$30,00014%
Quivira Coalition Inc$30,00051%
Global Strategies$30,00013%
Fins Attached Marine Research$30,00013%
Environmental Defense Center$30,00010%
Oneamerica$30,00011%
Ian Walsh Menehune Mayhem Foundation$30,000122%
Warren Land Trust Inc$30,000156%
Medicine Fish Corp$30,00016%
National Aquarium Inc$30,00010%
Sea Education Association Inc$29,77310%
Island Heritage Trust Inc$28,71912%
Out in the Open Inc$26,28017%
Oregon Health & Science University Foundation$25,00010%
Tunica Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana$25,0001n/a
Save Porter Ranch$25,0001n/a
The Miami Center for Racial Justice Inc$25,00013%
Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust Inc$25,00013%
Participatory Politics Foundation$25,000181%
White Men for Racial Justice Inc$25,00015%
Mn350$25,00011%
World Central Kitchen Inc$25,00010%
Netcentric Campaigns$25,00018%
Brag Dream Team Inc$25,0001n/a
Media Impact Funders Inc$25,00012%
Nextgen Climate America Inc$25,00010%
Civil Rights Corps$25,00010%
Boyz N the Wood Inc$25,0001n/a
First Peoples Fund$25,00011%
Potlatch Fund$25,00011%
International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management Inc I$25,00010%
Silver Stallion Bicycle and Coffee Works Inc$25,000130%
Commonweal$25,00010%
Environmental Health Research Inc$25,000199%
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Comm$25,0001n/a
Newport Festivals Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Malam-Darfur Peace and Development Inc$25,00012%
Nantucket Arts Council Inc$25,000126%
The Climate Center$25,00011%
Groundwork Rva Inc$25,00014%
Fauna & Flora International USA Inc$25,00011%
Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools$25,00011%
Khan Academy Inc$25,00010%
One Village Project$25,000113%
Blackfeet Community College$25,00010%
Redeemer Community Partnership$25,000111%
Southside Community Land Trust$21,50021%
People's Solar Energy Fund$20,00018%
The North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc$20,00020%
Penikese Island School Inc$20,00016%
ecoRI Inc$20,00022%
Fabnewport Inc$20,00021%
Sound Future Foundation$20,00013%
Baltimore County Sailing Center Incorporated$20,000110%
Life Sail Inc$20,000125%
Albuquerque Sign Language Academy$20,00010%
Conexion Latina Newport$20,00022%
Consortium for Ocean Leadership$18,30210%
La Cocina$17,50020%
Planet Indonesia$17,00011%
Media Island International$16,000112%
Foundation for a College Education$15,54010%
Amigos de Bolsa Chica$15,000132%
Portland All Nations Canoe Family$15,00013%
Gullah Geechee Angel Network$15,0001n/a
The River School$15,00010%
Georgia Organics Inc$15,00011%
Sacred Pipe Resource Center$15,000112%
Nonprofit Legal Services of Utah$15,00011%
Planting Justice$15,00011%
Lost Boyzinc$15,00011%
Latinos Aventureros Corporation$15,000125%
Duke University$12,50010%
10000 Degrees$12,00010%
New Bedford Economic Development Council Inc$11,00010%
Southern Documentary Fund$10,00011%
Hacking for Defense Incorporated$10,00010%
Pine Ridge Reservation Emergency Relief$10,0001n/a
Global Justice Ecology Project Inc$10,00012%
Eating With the Ecosystem Inc$10,00018%
Friends of Cswct$10,00018%
Ecological Farming Association$10,00012%
Almanack Arts Colony Inc$10,00017%
Resist Inc$10,00010%
Charles Sherrod Community Dev Corp$10,000115%
New Mexico Black Leadership Council$10,00011%
Movement Ground Farm$10,00012%
Vecinos Inc$10,00010%
Changing Woman Initiative$10,00012%
University of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated$10,00030%
Khmer Girls in Action$10,00011%
East Bay Sailing Foundation$10,00016%
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc$10,00010%
Equal Justice Initiative$10,00010%
Dark Seas Project$10,00018%
San Francisco Parks Alliance$10,00010%
Sankofa Community Connection$8,1951n/a
South Carolina Beach Advocates$7,8001n/a
Rare$7,50010%
Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust$7,50011%
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems$7,50010%
California Indian Museum & Cultural Center$7,00011%
Rozalia Project$5,00012%
Greater Farallones Association$5,00010%
Elephant Cooperation$5,00010%
The Funders Network Inc$5,00010%
Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships$5,00011%
Dolores C Huerta Foundation$5,00010%
Blacks in Technology Foundation$5,00018%
University of Miami$5,00010%
Pope Memorial Humane Society$5,00010%
Toniic Institute$5,00010%
National Association of Black Scuba Divers$5,0001n/a
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation$5,00010%
Rise Above$5,00010%
Black Girls Code Inc$5,00010%
Altasea at the Port of Los Angeles$5,00010%
Higher Purpose Hub$5,00010%
US Right to Know$3,80011%
Puente de la Costa Sur$2,50010%
Kitchen Slow Down Jew Up$2,5001n/a
Troy University Foundation$2,50010%
Jones Valley Urban Farm$2,50010%
The University of Georgia Foundation$2,50010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$2,50010%
San Francisco Foster Youth Fund$2,50011%
Earth Child Inc$2,0001n/a
South Portland Historical Society$40010%
University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc$30010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 179 recipients with no EIN on record ($77M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Schmidt Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 128 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $29,630,000 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetSustainable Markets Foundation: $24,016,750 over 6y, 24% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $23,030,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $13,500,000 over 6y, 57% of budgetClimate Central Inc: $13,075,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetKqed Inc: $9,000,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetRegenerative Agriculture Foundation: $8,135,000 over 4y, 69% of budgetAlliance for Open Society Int'L Inc: $7,500,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetConservation X Labs Inc: $6,800,885 over 6y, 57% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $6,773,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetNational Public Radio Inc: $6,533,334 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetApparel Impact Institute: $6,085,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetFund for Global Human Rights Inc: $5,956,225 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetGreenpeace Fund Inc: $4,863,500 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetCalifornia Farmlink: $3,850,300 over 5y, 28% of budgetCommunities for a Better Environment: $3,615,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetFirst Nations Development Institute: $3,575,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetSogorea Te Land Trust: $3,475,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetMovement Strategy Center: $3,202,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetRealize Impact: $3,200,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $3,157,971 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Riverkeeper: $3,150,000 over 6y, 33% of budgetCenter on Race Poverty & the Environment: $3,028,600 over 5y, 34% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $2,950,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetMultiplier: $2,945,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetPhysicians for Social Responsibility: $2,804,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetSustainable Economies Law Center: $2,796,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetPhysicians Scientists and Engineers for Sustainable and Healthy Energy Inc: $2,700,000 over 6y, 35% of budgetGuardianorg Foundation: $2,600,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetOo Project: $2,570,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetCommunity Alliance With Family Farmers: $2,550,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetJustice Outside: $2,521,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetPesticide Action Network North America: $2,479,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetWestern Organization of Resource Councils Education Project: $2,405,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetInquiring Systems Inc: $2,349,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetClean Ocean Access Inc: $2,337,039 over 5y, 71% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $2,335,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEarthworks: $2,322,500 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $2,260,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetThe Voter Participation Center: $2,250,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center: $2,246,187 over 6y, 20% of budgetNew York University: $2,200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSeventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc: $2,168,500 over 5y, 16% of budgetInstitute for Local Self Reliance: $2,166,500 over 6y, 15% of budgetInclusive Development International: $2,155,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetVoteorg: $2,050,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetAccountability Counsel: $2,050,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetEarthjustice: $1,975,000 over 4y, 0.8% 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 200.

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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.

Windward FundDC111.5× affinity113 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Windward Fund · Resources Legacy Fund · Patagoniaorg · United States Energy Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Sustainable Markets Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Solutions Project Inc

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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How do I get to The Schmidt Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Schmidt Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Schmidt Family Foundation

How much does The Schmidt Family Foundation give?
The Schmidt Family Foundation reported 695 grants totaling $185,440,970 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 294 and 527 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Schmidt Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (39%), International (12%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
Who are The Schmidt Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Human Rights Watch Inc ($30M), Sustainable Markets Foundation ($24M), Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation ($23M).
Does The Schmidt Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Schmidt Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Schmidt Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Windward Fund, Resources Legacy Fund, Patagoniaorg.
Where is The Schmidt Family Foundation based?
The Schmidt 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 1121 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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