· Private foundation
William a Schmidt & Teresa Elliot Schmidt Charitable 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA-CAMP JONES GULCH | $16,000 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY | $15,750 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINO | $11,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $8,500 |
| THE LIVING DESERT | $5,000 |
| FOOD SHARE INC | $4,900 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $1,895 |
| FIND FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| SAN FERNADO VALLEY RESCUE MISSION | $1,500 |
| MCCALLUM THEATER | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,500 |
| COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION | $1,375 |
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $1,050 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 36% of William a Schmidt & Teresa Elliot Schmidt Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 43%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 11 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FYFAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT5× · 2017–2021 · $41k · revenue +18%
- FSFOOD SHARE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +94%
- LDLIVING DESERT THE7× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +40%
- SFSAN FERNANDO VALLEY RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $4k
- SFSAN FERNANDO RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
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.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 117 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Desert Community Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William a Schmidt & Teresa Elliot Schmidt Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William a Schmidt & Teresa Elliot Schmidt Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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