The inner work
arc of HUMANITY
A 52-week reflection journey for the architect of their own potential. Eight sections, fifty-two letters, one arc, from Embodiment through Scale.
Read the bookA 501(c)(3) Private Foundation
XPDSHN is a private foundation turning human transformation into ecological repair.
52 weeks of inner work. A pollinator and food security movement. A game for the next generation. One mission, three arcs, built for the long century.
The work
Three arcs. One mission.
The outer work
Bee. The. Difference.
A pollinator habitat and food-system action movement. We plant gardens, build hives, and connect the people who feed their land back to the land that feeds them.
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The next generation
POLLN8
A mobile and tablet game teaching the science and wonder of pollination through play. Because the next generation will inherit what we steward, or what we squandered.
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The long century
We are building a hundred-year institution.
XPDSHN exists to convert awareness into action, action into community projects, and community projects into durable cultural change. Our long arc is perpetual land ownership and stewardship: partnering with landowners and major philanthropists to protect ground, in Nevada, across the United States, and around the world, for pollinator habitat, biodiversity, community gardens, and clean food for the people who need it most.
This is multi-generational work. We are building XPDSHN to outlast its founder, to compound across decades, and to hand to the next stewards a foundation that has already done the slow work of becoming trusted, becoming patient, and becoming irreplaceable.
What we are seeking
Land donations and perpetual stewardship partners
We accept fee-simple gifts, conservation easements, bargain sales, and remainder interests. Whether you own ten acres or ten thousand, in Nevada or anywhere XPDSHN can serve, we will work with qualified land trust counsel to structure a covenant that protects your land in perpetuity for pollinator habitat, biodiversity, and food security.
Begin a land conversationCo-funding from foundations and philanthropists
XPDSHN is a 501(c)(3) private foundation, which makes PF-to-PF grants, DAF recommendations, and major individual gifts straightforward. We welcome conversations with foundations and philanthropists who want to co-fund land stewardship, pollinator research, regenerative education, or community food infrastructure. We are patient capital looking for patient partners.
Talk to the founderEducational distribution partners
Schools, libraries, community colleges, civic groups, and reading communities: we license POLLN8 for classroom use at no cost, distribute arc of HUMANITY for community reading programs, and partner on pollinator habitat projects with K-12 and higher-ed institutions. We are looking for educators who want to bring this work to the next generation.
Email us about distributionBeekeepers, gardeners, and habitat stewards
If you keep bees, grow food, restore native habitat, or steward land at any scale, you are part of this. We want to connect practitioners across Nevada and the broader West, sponsor habitat installations, and help fund equipment for committed stewards. Skill matters more than scale.
Join the networkA note from the founder
I didn't write this book because I had all the answers. I wrote it because I ran out of excuses.
XPDSHN was founded by Joseph Schmitt in Reno, Nevada, after a personal reckoning that became a public mission. Out of the lowest season of his life came a single refusal: to keep dying in place.
What began as a weekly letter to himself became arc of HUMANITY, a 52-week framework for clarity, agency, and scale. The foundation grew around it.
Read the full storyFoundation and trust information
Foundation
- Legal name
- XPDSHN
- Status
- 501(c)(3) private foundation
- EIN
- 88-1829537
- Effective
- April 17, 2022
- Filings
- Files IRS Form 990-PF
- Address
- 3995 Rewana Way, Reno, NV 89502
For funders & partners
All gifts are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by U.S. law.
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