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Theodore & Elizabeth Schmidt Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$123k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$608kHealth$596kEducation$367kPublic Safety & Disaster$131kPhilanthropy$131kEnvironment$60kHuman Services$60kYouth Development$39kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALLET WEST$25,000
UTAH SYMPHONY OPERA$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,000
BEAR LAKE WATCH$6,900
Individual grant recipient$5,500
HCSC FOUNDATION$5,000
UTAH YOUTH ORCHESTRA$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH$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
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $700 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%YOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $300 → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $2k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $1k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $1k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $1k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $600 → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $600 → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $500 → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $500 → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $1k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $1k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $6k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $5k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $5k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $5k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $5k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $5k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $2k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $3k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $3k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $2k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
ID
IL
WI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 54 repeat orgs$602k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
27

Total granted

$1.5M
$602k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+19%

Still filing today

56%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • BW
    BALLET WEST
    9× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +69%
  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    5× · 2017–2022 · $152k · revenue +18%
  • MF
    Maliheh Free Clinic
    3× · 2018–2022 · $90k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • BL
    BEAR LAKE MEMORIAL HOPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • WC
    WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +841%
  • SU
    SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Utah Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
2
Utah Geological Foundation
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3
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

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.

Environment
4
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
6
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
7
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
8
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
9
Utah Athletic Foundation

Foster development of winter sports in utah and manage and maintain the utah olympic park, utah olympic oval and soldier hollow nordic center.

Recreation & Sports
10
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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.…

Arts & Culture
11
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

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…

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12
Utah Sports Commission Foundation

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…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 83 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
37/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEAR LAKE MEMORIAL HOPITAL: $500,000 · OtherBEAR LAKE MEMORIAL HOPITALAMERICAN RED CROSS: $131,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSIndividual grant recipient: $111,979 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $93,986 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUTAH SYMPHONY OPERA: $75,000 · OtherUTAH SYMPHONY OPERAIndividual grant recipient: $67,881 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $67,449 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $47,400 · Other+51 more: $292,727 · Other+51 moreBALLET WEST: $238,610 · Arts & CultureBALLET WESTUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $152,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERAUTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FESTIVAL OPERA CO…+5 more: $11,850 · Arts & CultureMaliheh Free Clinic: $90,000 · HealthZahara Charity: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $550 · HealthSALT LAKE CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION: $83,900 · Community ImprovementBEAR LAKE WATCH: $60,200 · EnvironmentUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $32,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House Association: $8,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME: $5,000 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $4,200 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $3,950 · Human Services+1 more: $300 · Human ServicesUTAH'S PROMISE: $21,000 · PhilanthropyHCSC FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,387,422Arts & Culture$427,460Health$95,550Community Improvement$83,900Environment$60,200Human Services$53,450Philanthropy$42,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALLET WEST: $238,610 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $152,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $90,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetSALT LAKE CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION: $83,900 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetBEAR LAKE WATCH: $60,200 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetDIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHCSC FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: $10,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPhi Delta Theta Foundation: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $4,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $4,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $3,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUKRAINE WAR RELIEF FUND: $3,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteers of America Northern New England: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEBER PATHWAYS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZION CANYON MESA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $250 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.

  • 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 Zahara Charity ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Sorenson Legacy Found…Lawrence & Janet Dee …George S and Dolores …Kennecott Utah Copper…Making a Difference F…Larry H Miller and Ga…Douglas & Shelley Fel…King Family FoundationHenry W & Leslie M Es…C Scott & Dorothy E W…Willard L Eccles Char…
The Community Foundation of UtahUT29.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Theodore & Elizabeth Schmidt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theodore & Elizabeth Schmidt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    16report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Theodore & Elizabeth Schmidt Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Theodore & Elizabeth Schmidt Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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