· Private foundation
Theodore & Elizabeth Schmidt Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THEODORE & ELIZABETH SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALLET WEST | $25,000 |
| UTAH SYMPHONY OPERA | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| BEAR LAKE WATCH | $6,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH | $5,000 |
| UTAH YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| HCSC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE | $5,000 |
| JC PENNEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| UKRAINE WAR RELIEF FUND | $2,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON MT VERNON | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERV | $2,000 |
| UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPI | $1,825 |
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 (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BWBALLET WEST9× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +69%
- USUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA5× · 2017–2022 · $152k · revenue +18%
- MFMaliheh Free Clinic3× · 2018–2022 · $90k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- BLBEAR LAKE MEMORIAL HOPITALone grant, 2020 · $500k
- WCWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +841%
- SUSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
Foster development of winter sports in utah and manage and maintain the utah olympic park, utah olympic oval and soldier hollow nordic center.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
The Utah Sports Commission Foundation is a charitable organization governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international sports…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ukraine War Relief Fund. 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 46 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 83 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 BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds SALT LAKE CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEAR LAKE WATCH ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds HCSC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds Zahara Charity ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Utah · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Making a Difference Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Douglas & Shelley Felt Family Found · King Family Foundation · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Willard L Eccles 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 Theodore & Elizabeth Schmidt 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.
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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