· Private foundation
The Schmieding Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k52 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $960k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $728k
- $250k+3 grants · $753k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $252,500 |
| CHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $250,000 |
| COASTAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $191,380 |
| UAMS FOUNDATION FUND | $178,500 |
| JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY | $172,000 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS | $76,000 |
| SPRINGDALE SENIOR CENTER | $55,000 |
| SPRINGDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $55,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $44,300 |
| WASHINGTON REGIONAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $41,000 |
| ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATION | $39,370 |
| FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN | $38,000 |
| THE JONES CENTER | $30,000 |
| ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $334k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
- ACARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +186%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $506k · revenue +31%
- JBJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $332k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- VDVARIOUS DONATIONS UNDER 25000 EACHone grant, 2020 · $421k
- APAGING PARTNERS CITY OF LINCOLNone grant, 2021 · $168k
- MHMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION - NORTHWEST ARKANSASone grant, 2020 · $59k
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.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education
The alliance is a collaborative organization that works on behalf of arkansans facing hunger.
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
To enhance the quality of life for those facing serious illness and loss by surrounding them with love and embracing them with the best in physical, emotional and spiritual care programs and services, and to help donors meet their…
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
Provide help to domestic violence victims and encourage community efforts to promote domestic peace.
Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.
Food bank that distributes food supplies to families in need in nine counties.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Daphne High School Quarterback Club. 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
103 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. 103 of the 186 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 ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arisa Health Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Washington Regional Medical Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONCRIEF GAME CHANGER INC MONCRIEF LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Fayetteville Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds FITTING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 16 WESTARK AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkoma Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Hope Cancer Resources ↗
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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Wal-Mart Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Alice L Walton Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc · Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support · Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc · McKinney C & a Charitable Trust · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Riggs Benevolent Fund
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 Schmieding 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.
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