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The Walter E Schmid Family Foundation

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.8MEducation$1.1MHealth$538kReligion$83kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kAnimals$55kFood & Nutrition$33kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $433k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY$250,000
KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INC$250,000
GRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC$200,000
ERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$67,725
MERCY FLIGHT INC$65,275
HEALTH MANAGEMENT GROUP LTD$50,000
WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING$50,000
LABS4RESCUE INC$20,000
REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH$20,000
LIVING HOPE DEAF CHURCH$20,000
COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP$20,000
ASYLUM HILL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$20,000
HH-STONEWALL COMMUNITY FARM INC$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP: $20k → 11%COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP: $5k → 11%INDEPENDENCE UNLIMITED INC: $3k → 11%Communication Advocacy Network: $3k → 11%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $8k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 15 repeat orgs$320k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$3.4M
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationHealthOther

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

  • KM
    KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +69%
  • BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $425k · revenue +3%
  • GC
    GRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +290%

Funded once

  • BN
    BUFFALO NIAGARA MEDICAL CAMPUS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • HF
    HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +9%
  • NH
    NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -61%

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.

1
Schofield Home Health Care Services Inc

To provide the highest level of professional and paraprofessional home health care services with care, compassion, and allowing patients to remain in their own home. We meet our mission by operating a licensed home care agency providing…

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2
Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo Inc

We are western new york's community based healthcare organization dedicated to the care and support of individuals with a serious or end of life illness. we represent a passionate and diverse team of professionals dedicated to the holistic…

Health
3
Home Care Association of New York State Inc

To promote and enhance the quality and accessibility of health care and support at home.

Community Improvement
4
University At Buffalo Neurosurgery Inc

University at buffalo neurosurgery, inc. is an academic neurosurgical group committed to excellence in patient care, research, and education. our mission is to develop and implement sound strategies that focus on quality medical services,…

Health
5
Lutheran Church Home of Buffalo Inc

Our mission is to provide for the physical, social, and spiritual needs of individuals we serve, in a Christian environment. The organization is an adult care facility which can accommodate 48 residents.

Human Services
6
Neighborhood Health Center of Wny Inc

We welcome all western new yorkers for high quality, patient-centered primary healthcare.

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7
Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers Inc

To improve the quality of life of the people and neighborhoods we serve by preparing, equipping and empowering them to meet the challenges of contemporary urban life and realize their full potential.

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8
Independent Living for Seniors Inc

To meet the health care needs of elderly persons and other individuals who require chronic health care by establishing and maintaining a chronic care management program, including but not limited to: management and coordination of…

Religion
9
Hospice of Metropolitan Erie Inc

To provide support to the terminally ill

Human Services
10
Mercy Home Care

The Mission of Mercy Home Care, as part of the Catholic Health System (CHS) in Western New York, is to provide quality healthcare services in a home care setting. Committed to a common mission, the providers of Mercy Home Care continue the…

Human Services
11
Nascentia Community Care

For the regions we serve. nascentia community care's goal of maintaining, restoring and promoting the health and independence of those we serve is achieved by utilizing our agency and community resources, by working collaboratively, and by…

Health
12
Community Health Center of Buffalo Inc

The community health center of buffalo, inc operates four freestanding federally qualified health centers licensed as a diagnostic and treatment center under article 28 of the ny state health law. the center provides a broad range of…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Foundation of Wny Inc and the most unlike its peers is LABS4RESCUE Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr17%0%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr14%42%35–55yr20%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr17%0%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr20%51%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
9%
1,202/13,340

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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INC — $750,000 · Arts & CultureKLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INCBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $425,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INCGRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC — $400,000 · Arts & CultureGRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC+1 more — $50,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO INC — $1,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO INCWestern New York Public Broadcasting — $150,000 · OtherWestern New York Public BroadcastingBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $135,000 · OtherBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INCMERCY FLIGHT INC — $65,275 · Other+11 more — $154,500 · Other+11 moreHORIZON HEALTH ALLIANCE LTD — $250,000 · PhilanthropyHORIZON H…HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyHOSPICE F…NATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL …ERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $127,725 · EducationBUFFALO NIAGARA MEDICAL CAMPUS INC — $100,000 · HealthCOMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP — $27,500 · Human ServicesCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesINDEPENDENCE UNLIMITED INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $25,000 · AnimalsWNY VETERANS' HOUSING COALITION INC — $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$1,625,000Other$1,504,775Philanthropy$300,000Education$127,725Health$100,000Human Services$37,500Animals$25,000Housing & Shelter$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INC — $750,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $425,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC — $400,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetHORIZON HEALTH ALLIANCE LTD — $250,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $135,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $127,725 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBUFFALO NIAGARA MEDICAL CAMPUS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT INC — $65,275 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Music School — $50,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetCOMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP — $27,500 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLABS4RESCUE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetNATIONAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWNY VETERANS' HOUSING COALITION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEBRON INTERFAITH HUMAN SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDisabilities Network of Eastern Connecticut Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDEPENDENCE UNLIMITED INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 …The Baird FoundationThe Western New York …The Margaret L Wendt …The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Hartford Foundation f…Aetna Foundation IncThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for Good
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Baird Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

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 Walter E Schmid 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 45%
  • Independence Unlimited Inc — 100% of income from government
  • National Association of the Deaf — 58% of income from government
  • Communication Advocacy Network Corp — 45% of income from government
  • Disabilities Network of Eastern Connecticut Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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