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The Schmidt Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$185M
Granted FY2024still arriving
695
Grants FY2024still arriving
49
States reached
$8.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 695 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k81 grants · $2.0M
  • $50k–250k396 grants · $48M
  • $250k+204 grants · $136M
$130,000
Median grant
49
States reached
$2.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION$8,000,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC$6,665,000
SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION$3,537,500
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC$3,400,000
REALIZE IMPACT$3,200,000
SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST$3,175,000
KQED INC$3,000,000
RSF SOCIAL FINANCE$2,679,117
GRIST MAGAZINE INC$2,513,000
MYRIAD USA$2,447,786
JUSTICE OUTSIDE$2,090,000
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION$2,050,000
CONSERVATION X LABS INC$2,000,000
APPAREL IMPACT INSTITUTE$2,000,000
CALIFORNIA FARMLINK$1,920,700
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $10.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $227k → 14%FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $150k → 16%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $900k → 18%HEART OF AMERICA INDIAN CENTER INC: $175k → 15%FREEDOM INC: $200k → 10%REALIZE IMPACT: $3.2M → 10%FOUR DIRECTIONS- RFA: $400k → 7%INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $250k → 18%INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $200k → 18%PRIME COALITION INC: $250k → 8%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $125k → 18%FAR AWAY PROJECTS: $397k → 12%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $125k → 18%NUESTRA CASA DE EAST PALO ALTO: $130k → 8%COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC: $400k → 22%COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC: $400k → 22%COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC: $400k → 22%COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC: $200k → 22%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $150k → 12%COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC: $200k → 22%COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC: $175k → 22%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $125k → 9%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION: $105k → 14%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $606k → 10%MORE IN COMMON INC: $100k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
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OH
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CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Schmidt Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Schmidt Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$566M · 607 repeat orgs$58M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

607 repeat relationships: 458 still active in FY2024, 149 since wound down; 207 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

607
268

Total granted

$566M
$27M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+20%

Still filing today

86%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SM
    SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $24M · revenue +170%
  • MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $23M · revenue +71%
  • CC
    CLIMATE CENTRAL INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $13M · revenue +161% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • G
    GOFUNDMEORGgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +26%
  • FF
    FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST
    one grant, 2019 · $700k · revenue 0% · 76% of their budget
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $700k · revenue -14%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
2
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
3
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
5
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
6
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
9
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
10
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
11
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
12
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Schmidt Ocean Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

904 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 904 of the 1,121 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

128
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
256
Early backer (in before they grew)
894/904
Grantees still filing
568/904
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $24,016,750 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATI…Grist Magazine Inc: $13,500,000 · EnvironmentGrist Magazine IncAPPAREL IMPACT INSTITUTE: $6,085,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INC: $4,863,500 · Environment+50 more: $74,795,226 · Environment+50 moreELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION: $12,718,000 · OtherELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATIONVIRUNGA FOUNDATION UK: $9,726,001 · OtherCLIMATE CENTRAL INC: $13,075,000 · OtherCLIMATE CENTRAL INCRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $12,233,242 · OtherRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC+99 more: $153,020,720 · Other+99 moreHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $29,630,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WA…AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $11,784,061 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH…ALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC: $7,500,000 · InternationalALLIANCE FOR OP…FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $5,956,225 · InternationalFUND FOR GLOBAL…PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $2,804,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $2,497,786 · International+6 more: $8,934,700 · International+6 moreMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $23,030,000 · AnimalsCONSERVATION X LABS INC: $6,800,885 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $6,773,000 · AnimalsROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $6,460,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $3,299,100 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,613,928 · PhilanthropyJUSTICE OUTSIDE: $2,521,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $2,005,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $1,777,241 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $1,725,000 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $860,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW WORLD FOUNDATION: $800,000 · PhilanthropyREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $8,135,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD & WATER WATCH: $5,815,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $1,555,000 · Food & NutritionHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION: $1,050,000 · Food & NutritionFriends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration: $1,006,500 · Food & NutritionINSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY: $987,000 · Food & NutritionNational Black Food and Justice Alliance: $900,000 · Food & NutritionREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE: $890,000 · Food & NutritionThe Oakland Institute: $850,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC: $800,000 · Food & NutritionCenter for Food Safety: $795,000 · Food & NutritionKQED INC: $9,000,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $6,533,334 · Arts & CultureGUARDIANORG FOUNDATION: $2,600,000 · Arts & CultureSolon Center For Research And Publishing: $1,525,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO WORKSHOP US INC: $880,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL B NEWS INC: $800,000 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEUM: $775,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$123,260,476Other$200,772,963International$69,106,772Animals$36,603,885Philanthropy$23,561,769Food & Nutrition$22,783,500Arts & Culture$22,113,334

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $12,233,242 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $11,784,061 over 6y, 7.7% 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 budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $6,460,000 over 4y, 0.5% 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 budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $5,815,000 over 6y, 11% 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 budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $3,299,100 over 6y, 10% 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 budgetTIDES CENTER: $3,118,873 over 5y, 0.6% 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 budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,613,928 over 4y, 0.4% 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 budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $2,526,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE OUTSIDE: $2,521,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $2,497,786 over 2y, 1.2% 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 budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Grist Magazine Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC ↗
  • Who funds RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION X LABS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds APPAREL IMPACT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FARMLINK ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT ↗
  • Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Realize Impact ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Columbia Riverkeeper ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
  • Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ↗
  • Who funds Sustainable Economies Law Center ↗
  • Who funds PHYSICIANS SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS FOR SUSTAINABLE AND HEALTHY ENERGY INC ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION ↗

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 FundResources Legacy FundPatagoniaorgUnited States Energy …Common Counsel Founda…Movement Strategy Cen…Rsf Social Finance IncRockefeller Family Fu…Natural Resources Def…Sustainable Markets F…Amalgamated Charitabl…Solutions Project Inc
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Schmidt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schmidt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Rogue Climate: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Verde Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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.

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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