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The William J and Barbara a Schmidt Family Foundation Inc

To provide grants to qualified charitable organizations as determined by the board of directors.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$462k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$889kHousing & Shelter$827kHuman Services$702kHealth$560kEmployment$324kEducation$228kEnvironment$192kPublic Safety & Disaster$160kInternational$106kOther$2.2M
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $1,449,612 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,479,612 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $932k
  • $250k+1 grant · $462k
$65,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY$461,558
WISDOMESTHER$221,351
HEADSUP FOX CITIES$147,393
LEAVEN INC$123,697
THOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC$98,262
BASIC NEEDS GIVING PARTNERSHIP INC$76,090
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC (APPLETON)$65,000
PILLARS$50,000
COTS$50,000
RIVERVIEW GARDENS INC$50,000
REVOLUTION WORKSHOP$50,000
US VENTURE ASSOCIATES CARING TOGETHER FUND INC$25,000
KENYA WORKS$21,261
COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $702k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC: $98k → 6%CASA ESTHER: $30k → 11%CASA ESTHER: $20k → 11%CASA ESTHER: $20k → 11%CASA ESTHER: $15k → 11%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN - FOX CITIES: $26k → 7%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN - FOX CITIES: $16k → 7%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN - FOX CITIES: $15k → 7%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN - FOX CITIES: $15k → 7%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN - FOX CITIES: $13k → 7%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN - FOX CITIES: $13k → 7%HEADSUP FOX CITIES: $147k → 6%LEAVEN INC: $124k → 6%LEAVEN INC: $35k → 6%LEAVEN INC: $25k → 6%LEAVEN INC: $25k → 6%LEAVEN INC: $18k → 6%LEAVEN INC: $15k → 6%LEAVEN INC: $12k → 6%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET: $10k → 6%LEAVEN INC: $10k → 6%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 24 repeat orgs$597k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
15

Total granted

$5.1M
$341k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+35%

Still filing today

83%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEmploymentArts & CultureOther

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

  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    6× · 2017–2022 · $385k · revenue +60%
  • PI
    PILLARS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $310k · revenue +460%
  • RW
    REVOLUTION WORKSHOP
    6× · 2018–2024 · $290k · revenue +387%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GEANCO FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -5%
  • SB
    ST BERNADETTE PARISH
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +52%

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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
3
Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health
4
Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.

Human Services
5
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
6
Center for Healthcare Careers of Southeast Wisconsin Inc

The mission of the center for healthcare careers of southeast wisconsin, inc. (chcsew) is to unite all appropriate stakeholders in a viable, flexible structure to locate, educate and support a workforce from service to professional levels…

Health
7
Goodwill Manufacturing Inc

Goodwill manufacturing, inc. ("goodwill manufacturing") is a nonstock, not-for-profit wisconsin corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock, not-for-profit…

Employment
8
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
9
Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.

Human Services
10
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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11
Goodwill Industries of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

Goodwill industries of metropolitan chicago, inc. ("goodwill-chicago") is a nonstock, not-for-profit illinois corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock,…

Human Services
12
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%8%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%6%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr17%7%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
15%
5,091/32,883

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

37 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. 37 of the 43 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY — $1,244,258 · OtherCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMYChiaravalle Montessori School — $272,500 · OtherChiaravalle Montessori SchoolFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $243,300 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHST FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM INC — $126,000 · OtherRIVERVIEW GARDENS INC — $192,145 · OtherRIVERVIEW GARDENS INCUS VENTURE ASSOCIATES CARING TOGETHER FUND INC — $160,000 · OtherUS VENTURE ASSOCIATES CARING TOGETHER FUND INCTHE GEANCO FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Other+15 more — $354,985 · Other+15 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC — $495,400 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDA…ESTHER INC — $236,351 · PhilanthropyESTHER INCBASIC NEEDS GIVING PARTNERSHIP INC — $146,090 · PhilanthropyBASIC NEEDS GIVI…+1 more — $11,000 · PhilanthropyPILLARS INC — $310,000 · Housing & ShelterPILLARS INCCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $279,500 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIONS FOR…COTS INC — $237,500 · Housing & ShelterCOTS INCLEAVEN INC — $263,197 · Human ServicesLEAVEN INCHEADSUP FOX CITIES CORP — $147,393 · Human ServicesHEADSUP FOX …THOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC — $98,262 · Human ServicesTHOMPSON CEN…CASA ESTHER INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesCASA ESTHER …DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $83,048 · Human ServicesDOWN SYNDROM…+2 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $385,000 · HealthAnn & Robe…CATALPA HEALTH INC — $100,000 · HealthCATALPA HE…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $25,000 · HealthREVOLUTION WORKSHOP — $290,000 · EmploymentHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC — $33,500 · EmploymentKENYA WORKS INC — $228,244 · Education
Other$2,693,188Philanthropy$888,841Housing & Shelter$827,000Human Services$701,900Health$560,000Employment$323,500Education$228,244

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC — $495,400 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $385,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPILLARS INC — $310,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetREVOLUTION WORKSHOP — $290,000 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $279,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetChiaravalle Montessori School — $272,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLEAVEN INC — $263,197 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetCOTS INC — $237,500 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetESTHER INC — $236,351 over 3y, 74% of budgetKENYA WORKS INC — $228,244 over 8y, 12% of budgetRIVERVIEW GARDENS INC — $192,145 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetUS VENTURE ASSOCIATES CARING TOGETHER FUND INC — $160,000 over 4y, 49% of budgetHEADSUP FOX CITIES CORP — $147,393 over 1y, 20% of budgetBASIC NEEDS GIVING PARTNERSHIP INC — $146,090 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCATALPA HEALTH INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GEANCO FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTHOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC — $98,262 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCASA ESTHER INC — $85,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $83,048 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOX VALLEY WARMING SHELTER INC — $35,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC — $33,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPLETON BOYCHOIR INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetChicago Cubs Charities — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREACH COUNSELING SERVICES INC — $16,335 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF FOX CITIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL ELDER SERVICES INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS CONNECTIONS INC — $7,650 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN NICARAGUA PARTNERS OF THE AMERICAS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 …J J Keller Foundation…The Clarence Wallace …US Ventureschmidt Fam…Green Bay Packers Fou…John and Julie Schmid…Theda and Tamblin Cla…Oshkosh Area Communit…Oshkosh Corporation F…Crystal Print Foundat…Hartwig Family Founda…Basic Needs Giving Pa…
Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region IncWI47× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundation · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Crystal Print Foundation Inc · Hartwig Family Foundation Inc · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc

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 William J and Barbara a Schmidt Family Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The William J and Barbara a Schmidt Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The William J and Barbara a Schmidt Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 43 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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