· Private foundation
William C Schmoker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of William C Schmoker Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Trustees Of Hamilton College, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year William C Schmoker Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $408k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $150,000 |
| HAMILTON COLLEGE SCHMOKER FAMILY OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP FUND | $100,000 |
| TRUE FRIENDS | $50,000 |
| LONGVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WILDERNESS INQUIRY | $40,000 |
| BRAVEHEARTS | $8,000 |
| NORTHLAND AREA FAMILY SERVICE CENTER | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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 +55% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- MCMinnesota Children's Museum8× · 2017–2025 · $550k · revenue +98%
- WIWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $443k · revenue +150%
- TFTRUE FRIENDS8× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- MLMINNESOTA LAND TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +155%
- MCMEETINGHOUSE CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
- HAHOPE ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +240%
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is True Friends and the most unlike its peers is Longville Area Community Foundation. 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 46 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 32 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 Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds VENN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONGVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND AREA FAMILY SERVICE CTR ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BRITTANY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
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 Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catherine Marie Schmoker Family Foundation · Schmoker Family Foundation · Lisa Stuart Schmoker Family Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 William C Schmoker 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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