How much did THE SCHMITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of THE SCHMITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

church

2023

church

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $22k
$10k–50k4 grants · $72k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

WLMB-TV DOMINION BROADCASTING$30,000
BERKELEY HALL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$20,000
VANTAGE POINT FOUNDATION$11,500
ERIE SHORES COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$10,000
LAKOTA SPORTS ORGANIZATION$6,000
HOUSE OF PRAYER$2,500
ST JOHNS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$2,500
MED-I-ASSIST INC$2,500
OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC$2,500
MEALS ON WHEELS$2,500
SPRINGFIELD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$2,500
POCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE$500

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$892k · 18 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$892k

$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

+50%

Still filing today

50%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalOther

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

PA
PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE
5× · 2018–2023 · $51k · revenue +78%
LS
LAKOTA SPORTS ORGANIZATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +129%
BM
BALLET MAGNIFICAT
3× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +20%

Funded once

GB
GRACE BIBLE CHURCH
one grant, 2021 · $16k
TA
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
one grant, 2020 · $10k
TS
TOLEDO SCHOOL OF MINISTRY
one grant, 2022 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

South Carolina Golf Association

To preserve promote and serve the game of golf

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Veterans Trust Fund of South Carolina

Serve needs of south carolina veterans

Public Benefit

Georgia State Golf Association

Promotion of game/rules of golf throughout the state of georgia

Recreation & Sports

Virginia State Golf Association

The mission of the virginia state golf association is to promote the game of golf and serve the needs of golf in virginia.

Recreation & Sports

Hospice Care of the Lowcountry Inc

Provide hospice care and palliative care for patients in beaufort and jasper co's, sc.

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The Texas Golf Association

The texas golf association is one of the largest and most respected golf associations in the country, with an ongoing commitment of ensuring that the top resources and most dependable staff are in place to meet current and future needs of…

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On Course Foundation Usa

On course foundation supports the recovery of wounded, injured and sick (continued on schedule o) service members and veterans through golf. our mission is to build confidence and self-belief in our members through golf skills and…

Public Benefit

Chapel Pointe At Carlisle

Provide comfortable retirement living and care to residents in a secure, christian environment.

Human Services

Professional Golfers Association of

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.

Recreation & Sports

Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday Inc

Promotion of golf tourism

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Delta Golf Open Inc

Delta golf open, inc's mission is to raise funds for various committee selected charitable organizations by hosting an annual golf tournament.

Philanthropy

South Carolina Junior Golf Association

To promote preserve and serve the game of junior golf

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowcountry Foundation for Wounded Military Heroes and the most unlike its peers is Carolinas Golf Association. 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

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

16/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$737,329Religion$150,000Philanthropy$36,400Arts & Culture$28,000Education$7,600Health$3,800Crime & Legal$3,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC22.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Heritage Classic Foundation · The Berkeley Hall Charitable · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 organisation 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.

2024

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BERKELEY HALL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 464739893 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BERKELEY HALL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 36% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Schmitz Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Schmitz Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE SCHMITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Schmitz Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE SCHMITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Schmitz Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph