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SAM SCHMIDT FOUNDATION

EIN 43-1878305 INDIANAPOLIS, IN

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Revenue 2024
$12,657,600
Expenses 2024
$2,394,847

Program services were 74.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E50
Classification
1000
Street
1300 E 96TH ST STE 100

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ORGANIZATION IS COMMITTED TO FINDING TREATMENTS AND/OR CURES FOR SPINAL CORD INJURIES AND/OR PARALYSIS. THE SCHMIDT FAMILY HAS MADE A MULTI-YEAR COMMITMENT TO UNDERWRITE ALL OF CONQUER PARALYSIS NOW'S ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS TO ENSURE THAT 100% OF EVERY DOLLAR DONATED TO THE FOUNDATION WILL GO DIRECTLY TO FINDING TREATMENTS AND/OR CURES FOR SPINAL CORD INJURIES AND/OR PARALYSIS.

  • THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES REHABILITATION AND THERAPY SERVICES TO PATIENTS AND RECOGNIZES SERVICE INCOME FROM THOSE PATIENTS AT THE TIME SERVICES ARE RENDERED.

    Expenses $1,785,908 · Grants $125,001 · Revenue $304,258

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Sam Schmidt

    CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Bill Liacone

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Michael Kret

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Todd Davis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alan Lewis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brigadier General John P McGoff MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Pam Tondreau

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chet Beiler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Adell Means

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Savannah Boehrer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christine Louck

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $194,864
    From this org
    $181,063
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,801
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $181,063
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,400
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,401
    Filer's total
    $194,864

  • Brandi Kurka

    FORMER EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $159,790
    From this org
    $149,115
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,675
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,115
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,175
    Filer's total
    $159,790

  • Chad W Towner

    FORMER CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $168,360
    From this org
    $159,959
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,401
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $159,959
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,401
    Filer's total
    $168,360

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $12,657,600
    Expenses
    $2,394,847
    Contributions
    $11,339,641
    Grants paid
    $125,001
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $20,049,807
    Expenses
    $1,851,295
    Contributions
    $19,085,399
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,395,256
    Expenses
    $1,567,335
    Contributions
    $1,931,891
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,098,703
    Expenses
    $1,143,282
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,377,146

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,850,324
    Expenses
    $881,639
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,859,533

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,660,819
    Expenses
    $837,528
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,168,834

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $646,620
    Expenses
    $943,825
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,285,370

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $704,615
    Expenses
    $253,376
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,612,536

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,207,401
    Expenses
    $1,378,859
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,282,417

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • NEUROHOPE

    $125,001

    2024 TO AID INDIVIDUALS IN REHABILITATION OF SPINAL CORD INJURIES, BRAIN INJURIES, OR STROKES.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.