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Alan J Schottenstein Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$132k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$90kArts & Culture$60kHuman Services$40kHealth$30kInternational$10kFood & Nutrition$8kYouth Development$3k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ETINAN CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
WILY NETWORK$25,000
BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC$17,300
SARASOTA ORCHESTRA$15,000
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN$10,000
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE$10,000
SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC$10,000
TWLOHA INC$10,000
CHILDREN FIRST INC$5,000
ALL FAITH FOOD BANK INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$153k · 7 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$153k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +48%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +1%
  • RC
    RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • WA
    WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGINGgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +36%
  • FW
    Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -37%
  • OC
    ONE CAN HELP INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
4
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Family Health Center of Boone County

To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.

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7
Fisk University

Fisk university produces graduates from diverse backgrounds with the integrity and intellect required for substantive contributions to society. our curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts. our faculty and administrators emphasize the…

Education
8
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
9
Four County Comprehensive Mental Health Center Inc

Dedicated to holistic care given with compassion, respect, acceptance and hope. achieving emotional well being and independence.

Health
10
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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11
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
12
Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc

Forty carrots family center's mission is to nurture healthy child and family development through research-based, relationship-centered education and mental health services.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Can Help Inc; the most unlike its peers is All Faiths Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WILY NETWORK: $50,000 · EducationTHE WILY NETWORKRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $15,000 · EducationRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN …Children First Inc: $10,000 · EducationChildren First IncETINAN CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherETINAN CHILDRENS SCHOLARS…SARASOTA ORCHESTRA: $15,000 · OtherSARASOTA ORCHESTRASENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC: $15,000 · OtherSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS…FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA STUDIO THEATR…Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFlorida West Coast Sy…BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC: $19,500 · HealthBETH ISRAEL L…TWLOHA INC: $10,000 · HealthTWLOHA INCWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $25,000 · Human ServicesWOODSTOCK A…ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $8,000 · Food & NutritionONE CAN HELP INC: $3,000 · Youth Development
Education$75,000Other$55,000Arts & Culture$45,000Health$29,500Human Services$25,000Food & Nutrition$8,000Youth Development$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WILY NETWORK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren First Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE CAN HELP INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alan J Schottenstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alan J Schottenstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Children First Inc: 100% of income from government
  • One Can Help Inc: 8% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Alan J Schottenstein Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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