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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 61-0921414

Schmidt Family Foundation

A private foundation in Sarasota, FL. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 5 grants and $322,000 paid in grants.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2025

    $322,000

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $4,511,653
  • Tax year 2024

    $495,000

    Grants listed
    13
    Assets, end of year
    $4,647,496
  • Tax year 2023

    $180,500

    Grants listed
    15
    Assets, end of year
    $4,707,285
  • Tax year 2022

    $377,000

    Grants listed
    15
    Assets, end of year
    $4,768,194
  • Tax year 2021

    $300,000

    Grants listed
    11
    Assets, end of year
    $5,042,179
  • Tax year 2020

    $296,000

    Grants listed
    14
    Assets, end of year
    $5,254,568
  • Tax year 2019

    $287,100

    Grants listed
    12
    Assets, end of year
    $5,388,475
  • Tax year 2018

    $300,000

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $5,553,388

Grants paid in 2025

5 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Care Guide Partners PaceElizabethtown, KY

    All contributions are made to further the

    $300,000
  2. Casa of the HeartlandElizabethtown, KY

    Charitable purposes of the recipient organizations.

    $10,000
  3. Habitat for HumanityElizabethtown, KY

    See above

    $10,000
  4. Elizabethtown Rotary ClubBowling Green, KY

    See above

    $1,000
  5. Face Autism IncEllenton, FL

    See above

    $1,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Crime and legal aid1 grant $10,00091% of the total
  2. Health1 grant $1,0009% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Kentucky4 grants $321,000
  2. Florida1 grant $1,000

Officers, directors and trustees

1 person as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Lawrence SchmidtPRESIDENT Hours 2Pay $0

The return

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