· Private foundation
The Schmieding Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $933k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $522k
- $250k+2 grants · $854k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UAMS FOUNDATION FUND | $603,500 |
| ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $250,500 |
| JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY | $171,500 |
| BALDWIN COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER | $75,000 |
| SPRINGDALE SENIOR CENTER | $50,000 |
| COMPASSION CENTER OF NWA INC | $39,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ACADEMY | $32,000 |
| FITTING FUTURES | $32,000 |
| THE JONES CENTER | $30,000 |
| SPRINGDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $27,000 |
| SALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH | $26,800 |
| ABILITY TREE | $26,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $25,247 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $431k) 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
122 repeat relationships: 87 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +186%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $531k · revenue +31%
- JBJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $504k · 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
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.
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.
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.
To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education
Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.
To provide services to low income individuals.
Food bank that distributes food supplies to families in need in nine counties.
The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
How this is measured
118 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 118 of the 207 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 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 BALDWIN COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds MONCRIEF GAME CHANGER INC MONCRIEF LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Washington Regional Medical Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fayetteville Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds FITTING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds ABILITY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkoma Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Hope Cancer Resources ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 16 WESTARK AREA COUNCIL ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Schmieding Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schmieding Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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