· Private foundation
The Schmitz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERKELEY HALL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| WLMB-TV DOMINION BROADCASTING | $20,000 |
| OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC | $19,600 |
| ERIE SHORES COUNCIL - SCOUTING AMERICA | $12,500 |
| PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE | $12,500 |
| CHURCH OF THE CROSS | $10,000 |
| SPIRIT OF SEBASTIAN | $10,000 |
| LAKOTA SPORTS ORGANIZATION | $6,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH CONNECTION | $5,000 |
| DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- PAPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE6× · 2018–2025 · $63k · revenue +7%
- LSLAKOTA SPORTS ORGANIZATION8× · 2018–2025 · $47k · revenue +129%
- BMBALLET MAGNIFICAT INC3× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- GBGRACE BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $16k
- TAThe American Collegeone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +18%
- GCGRACE CHURCH INCone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
To connect, lead, and advocate in communities to ensure service members, veterans, and their families thrive. see schedule o for additional information.veterans bridge home connects veterans and their families, in any state of transition,…
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Provide the highest quality, patient-centered health care services for low-income and other underserved individuals.
Chapel pointe at carlisle is a continuing care retirement community of the christian and missionary alliance and is for persons of all faiths. our mission is to provide comfortable retirement living and quality care and service to each…
To provide financial resources to better enable Beaufort Memorial Hospital to serve the current and future health needs of the people of Beaufort County and the surrounding areas, as well as to foster health and wellness throughout the…
Promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf within the carolinas and to contribute to its growth by providing services to golf professionals and the golf industry within the carolinas.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
To preserve, promote, and serve the game of golf
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Med-I-Assist Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 45 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 CROSS OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERKELEY HALL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LAKOTA SPORTS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ERIE SHORES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BALLET MAGNIFICAT INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC ↗
- Who funds VANTAGE POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spirit of Sebastian ↗
- Who funds The American College ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Outreach Connection ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds Med-I-Assist Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds POCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON-JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROS ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Heritage Classic Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · Wexford Foundation · The Bargain Box · Palmetto Electric Trust · Douglas O & Gail S Tozour Foundation · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · The Marshall Miller Foundation · Julia Porter Scurry Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
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 Schmitz Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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