How much does The Schmitt Family Charitable Trust give?

The Schmitt Family Charitable Trust reported 27 grants totaling $120,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Schmitt Family Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Religion (20%), Health (12%).

Who are The Schmitt Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kenilworth Union Church ($68k), Jupiter Medical Center Inc ($65k), Sonoma Country Day School ($43k).

Does The Schmitt Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Schmitt Family Charitable Trust 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 Schmitt Family Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ceres Foundation, The Intuit Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.

Where is The Schmitt Family Charitable Trust based?

The Schmitt Family Charitable Trust is based in FL.

The Schmitt Family Charitable Trust

The Schmitt Family Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Schmitt Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$121k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$223kReligion$169kHealth$100kArts & Culture$77kPublic Benefit$60kCivil Rights$53kPhilanthropy$36kRecreation & Sports$29kOther$0

02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k24 grants · $86k
$10k–50k3 grants · $35k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER	$15,000
Intl Fellowship of ChristiansJews	$10,000
Christian Broadcasting Network	$10,000
KENILWORTH UNION CHURCH	$9,000
Network of Enlightened Women	$5,000
ORO Valley Church of the Nazerine	$5,000
Leadership Institute	$5,000
Prager University	$5,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE	$5,000
Lost Tree Chapel	$5,000
JUDICIAL WATCH	$5,000
Skokie Country Club Educational Fou	$5,000
The Gregory School	$5,000
Alliance Defending Freedom	$5,000
HADLEY SCHOOL FOR BLIND	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

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.

$705k · 47 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$705k

$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+29%

Still filing today

57%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthReligionPublic BenefitOther

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

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Jupiter Medical Center Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +115%
SC
SONOMA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
5× · 2017–2022 · $43k · revenue +71%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +141%

Funded once

SA
SONOMA ACADEMY
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -20%
JF
JEWS FOR JESUS
one grant, 2023 · $5k
NI
NORTHESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Revelation Media Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 85 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/44

Grantees still filing

35/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$450,875Education$147,800Health$74,000Public Benefit$63,000Civil Rights$34,000Arts & Culture$31,800Religion$31,500

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.

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.

Ceres FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ceres Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Schmitt Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schmitt Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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