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Benjamin J and Jennifer R Schlater Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$147k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$320kReligion$77kYouth Development$33kPhilanthropy$23kRecreation & Sports$14kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$2kInternational$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$176k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
DAMASCUS$25,000
ARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
DAMASCUS$5,000
ST HILARY PARISH$1,500
ARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL$1,051
ST HILARY PARISH$1,050
H2O FOUNDATIONS INC$1,000
ARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
H2O FOUNDATIONS INC$1,000
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 (FY19–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%H2O FOUNDATIONS INC: $2k → 7%H2O FOUNDATIONS INC: $1k → 7%H2O FOUNDATIONS INC: $1k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 17%H2O FOUNDATIONS INC: $1k → 7%H2O FOUNDATIONS INC: $1k → 7%H2O FOUNDATIONS INC: $1k → 7%H2O FOUNDATIONS INC: $1k → 7%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$403k · 10 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$403k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+31%

Still filing today

10%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyReligionYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • AH
    ARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $268k
  • RL
    Real Life Catholic
    2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +38%
  • CY
    CATHOLIC YOUTH SUMMER CAMPDAMASCUS
    3× · 2020–2023 · $31k

Funded once

  • SH
    ST HILARY PARISH & SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • SC
    ST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • JB
    JULIE BILLIART SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
Akron Community Foundation

To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…

Philanthropy
2
The Scholarship Granting Organization of the Catholic Community Foundation

The angel scholarship fund (asf) serves as the scholarship granting organization of the catholic community foundation. its mission is to promote the state of ohio scholarship tax credit program with all who support catholic education in…

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3
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
4
The Northern Cincinnai Foundation

Transforming generosity into impact by encouraging, supporting, and facilitating philanthropy to create more vibrant communities in northern cincinnati.

Philanthropy
5
Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio
Health
6
Agc of Ohio Education Foundation

Provide scholarships for construction careers

Education
7
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
8
Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc

Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…

Youth Development
9
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
10
Youth for Christ of Northern Ohio

Youth for christ is a non-denominational, youth-centered, christian association of churches that aims to participate in the body of christ in responsible evangelism of youth.

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11
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
12
Coats for Kids-Cleveland

Coats for kids-cleveland (cfk) is a non-profit organization that provides new coats to children in need in northeast ohio in cooperation with school districts and other local charitable organizations

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation 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

12 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. 12 of the 27 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $268,072 · OtherARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL INCCATHOLIC YOUTH SUMMER CAMPDAMASCUS: $31,000 · OtherCATHOLIC YOUTH SUMMER CAMPDAMASCUSST HILARY SCHOOL: $22,577 · OtherST HILARY SCHOOLCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherST HILARY PARENTS ASSOCIATION: $14,468 · Other+14 more: $42,298 · Other+14 moreReal Life Catholic: $35,000 · ReligionDAMASCUS INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentH2O FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $2,250 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $100 · PhilanthropyGREATER AKRON FORE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC FORMERLY THE FIRST TEE OF AKRON: $1,700 · Recreation & Sports
Other$393,415Religion$35,000Youth Development$30,000Human Services$9,000Food & Nutrition$2,250Philanthropy$2,100Recreation & Sports$1,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetReal Life Catholic: $35,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDAMASCUS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetH2O FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAIRLAWN COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPJS FROM GRANDMA INC: $250 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Real Life Catholic ↗
  • Who funds DAMASCUS INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds H2O FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER AKRON FORE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC FORMERLY THE FIRST TEE OF AKRON ↗
  • Who funds FAIRLAWN COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
  • Who funds PJS FROM GRANDMA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Akron Community FoundationOH15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · 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 Benjamin J and Jennifer R Schlater Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benjamin J and Jennifer R Schlater Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Benjamin J and Jennifer R Schlater Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Benjamin J and Jennifer R Schlater Family 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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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