· 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 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 · 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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +55% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 32 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 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 VENN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- 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 N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William C Schmoker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William C Schmoker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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