· Private foundation
Walter and Leona Schmitt 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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $7,000 |
| PRODEO ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ALIGHT | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS | $4,000 |
| ADOPTACLASSROOMORG | $3,500 |
| NATIONAL PARK SERVICE | $3,500 |
| OPEN WINDOWS BOOKS | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS | $3,000 |
| PROGRAM FOR AID TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT | $2,000 |
| DOMESTIC ABUSE PROJECT | $2,000 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
| DAMIANO CENTER | $2,000 |
| GROVES ACADEMY | $1,000 |
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, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +47% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- UOUniversity of St Thomas9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +49%
- GAGROVES ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +58%
- DODAMIANO OF DULUTH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +330%
Funded once
- COCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICTone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -1%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +0%- SHSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
Global minnesotas mission is to advance international understanding and engagement. we are committed to serving minnesota from a foundation built on the values of respect, collaboration, nonpartisanship, global competency, inclusion and…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Map is a local, statewide, and national resource for communities looking to develop and implement proven, innovative, community-centered strategies that address gender-based violence. using map's "we are all connected" (waac) prevention…
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sanneh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 77 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 University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds GROVES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY LIBRARY FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 ↗
- Who funds PROTECT MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Domestic Abuse Project Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR LAKE AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds HELP THE HELPLESS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds J ARON ALLEN LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · St Croix Valley Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · The Casey Albert T Oneil Fdn · Osilas Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 Walter and Leona Schmitt 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.