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The William a Schmidt & Carolyn B Schmidt Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The William a Schmidt & Carolyn B Schmidt Charitable Foundation

$2k
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$29kAnimals$6kRecreation & Sports$6kCrime & Legal$5kHousing & Shelter$4kHuman Services$3kEducation$2kEmployment$1kOther$0
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
2
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIVING PLATE FOOD RELIEF$1,000
HEART AND SOUL SANCTUARY$600
CENTRAL OREGON VETERANS OUTREACH$200
CENTRAL OREGON VETS RANCH$200
ONE WORLD PROJECT$100
HEART OF OREGON CORPS$100
SHEPARDS HOUSE MINISTRIES$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2k → 10%GALLUP NYC: $1k → 20%NDI NEW MEXICO: $10k → 12%KIDS CENTER: $5k → 10%OPB: $25 → 12%LATIN AMERICAN EDUC FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1k → 10%HEART & SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $5k → 12%CASCADE CHORALE: $3k → 10%ONE WORLD PROJECT: $100 → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1k → 10%HEART SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1k → 12%CENTRAL OREGON VETERANS RANCH: $2k → 10%HEART AND SOUL SANCTUARY: $600 → 12%CENTRAL OREGON VETS RANCH: $200 → 10%MUSEUM OF NM FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%HIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $2k → 10%OPERA BEND: $1k → 10%TOWER THEATRE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%HEART OF OREGON CORPS: $1k → 10%OPERA BEND: $500 → 10%HEART OF OREGON CORPS: $100 → 10%GIVING PLATE FOOD RELIEF: $1k → 10%CENTRAL OREGON VETERANS OUTREACH: $200 → 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND: $100 → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OR: $100 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38k · 6 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$38k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+70%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21
AnimalsArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalEmploymentOther
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

  • TH
    THE HEART AND SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +57%
  • FS
    FIRST SERVE-NM INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue ×24
  • HO
    HEART OF OREGON CORPS INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $1k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +70%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • HIGH DESERT MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +274%
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.

1
Oregon Humane Society

The oregon humane society ("ohs") is a private animal welfare organization, founded in 1868 and incorporated in 1880, whose mission is to create a more humane society with the vision of a world where all animals are treated with…

Animals
2
Herding Dog Rescue of Central Oregon

Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.

Animals
3
Oregon Horse Rescue
Youth Development
4
Brightside Animal Center

Brightside animal center is a high-save shelter dedicated to providing sheltering, placement, and prevention services to reduce animal homelessness and unnecessary euthanasia.

Animals
5
Columbia Humane Society

To assist the community in the successful rehoming (and training) of adoptable animals.

Animals
6
Little Critter Crew

To help homeless small animals in the state of Oregon by providing adequate shelter and veterinary care.

Animals
7
Central Oregon Animal Friends Home At Last Humane Society

Central Oregon Animal Friends is committed to promoting healthy, safe and lifelong relationships between people and their pets through sustainable programs of education, adoption and spay/neutering. We will endeavor to fight for the abused…

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8
Rogue Valley Humane Society

The Rogue Valley Humane Society provides compassionate care for stray unwanted displaced and abandoned animals and works toward ending pet overpopulation so that there will be no more homeless pets. We are committed to placing every…

Animals
9
Oregon Friends of Shelter Animals

Rescue, rehabilitate and rehome companion animals

Animals
10
Central Oregon Villages

Central oregon villages mission is to advocate for and provide safe and secure shelter, housing and related services in central oreogn for the unhoused populations or at risk of becoming unhoused.

Housing & Shelter
11
Hearts With a Mission

To serve homeless and at-risk youth by providing shelter, education, mentoring and transition planning, and elder companion care all with a faith-based approach in jackson, josephine, douglas, coos, lincoln, and klamath counties, oregon.

Human Services
12
Partners in Care

Partners in care is an integrated and comprehensive end of life services organization servicing the central oregon region with home health care; in-home hospice care; in-patient hospice care in partners in care hospice house; and…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Oregon Veterans Ranch; the most unlike its peers is First Serve-Nm 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

11 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. 11 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NDI-NEW MEXICO: $20,250 · OtherNDI-NEW MEXICOHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $4,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCENTRAL OREGON VETERANS RANCH: $2,000 · OtherCENTRAL OREGON VETERANS RANCHOPERA BEND: $1,500 · Other+10 more: $4,053 · Other+10 moreTHE HEART AND SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $6,000 · AnimalsTHE HEART AN…+1 more: $100 · AnimalsFIRST SERVE-NM INC: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsFIRST SERVE…KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $5,000 · Crime & LegalKIDS INTER…HIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $2,200 · Arts & CultureTOWER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHEART OF OREGON CORPS INC: $1,100 · EmploymentCENTRAL OREGON VETERAN & COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $200 · Housing & ShelterSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $100 · Housing & Shelter
Other$34,803Animals$6,100Recreation & Sports$5,500Crime & Legal$5,000Arts & Culture$3,200Employment$1,100Housing & Shelter$300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HEART AND SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $6,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFIRST SERVE-NM INC: $5,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON VETERANS RANCH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHEART OF OREGON CORPS INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON VETERAN & COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

First Interstate Banc…The Oregon Community …United Way of Deschut…St Charles Health Sys…The Autzen FoundationMichael J & Adele M T…Bend FoundationThe Anjulicia Foundat…The Douglas and Glori…Barbara Emily Knudson…Braemar Charitable Tr…Maybelle Clark Macdon…
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of Deschutes County · St Charles Health System Inc · The Autzen Foundation · Michael J & Adele M Tennant Charitable · Bend Foundation · The Anjulicia Foundation · The Douglas and Gloria Rumberger Foundation · Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund

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 William a Schmidt & Carolyn B Schmidt Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William a Schmidt & Carolyn B Schmidt Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Central Oregon Veteran & Community Outreach Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Central Oregon Veterans Ranch: 45% of income from government
  • Heart of Oregon Corps Inc: 28% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum: 11% of income from government
  • Tower Theatre Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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