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Caroline & Sigmund Schott Fund at a glance

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Caroline & Sigmund Schott Fund

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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$7.2MCivil Rights$2.0MArts & Culture$1.7MPhilanthropy$482kEnvironment$263kFood & Nutrition$210kHuman Services$156kAnimals$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $406k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$27,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION$700,000
ASF - ACCESS STRATEGIES FUND$400,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$325,000
PROTEUS FUND FBO JEWISH LIBERATION FUND$170,000
AGITARTE INC$100,951
KIBILIO INC$75,000
STATE POWER FUND$60,000
SOLIDAIRE NETWORK$27,500
NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER$10,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$10,000
RESIST INC$10,000
THE PHILANTHROPIC COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUC$10,000
LA PLANTA$10,000
T'RUAH$1,800
SVARA$518
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 (FY19–22, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS: $10k → 6%AYNI INSTITUTE: $5k → 16%FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $1k → 8%FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $500 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
AZ
NM
TN
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.7M · 19 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
50

Total granted

$9.7M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+23%

Still filing today

84%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k 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
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AI
    AGITARTE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +59% · 49% of their budget
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +10%
  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • GI
    GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL FBO PR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • CG
    COMMON GOOD FINANCE FBO KIBILIO GRANT FOR REFUGE PURCHASE
    one grant, 2022 · $255k
  • JG
    Jubilee Gift Galaxy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +26%
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
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
2
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Action Inc

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…

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3
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
4
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
5
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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6
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
7
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
8
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
9
Transform Finance Inc

To align capital with social justice values, and help activists and community leaders access capital as a tool for transformative social change. we empower community leaders to shape how capital flows affect them - both in terms of holding…

Community Improvement
10
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Schott Foundation for Public Education; the most unlike its peers is Greater Four Corners Action Coalition. 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

52 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. 52 of the 77 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
29/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $6,860,500 · EducationTHE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION+5 more: $22,500 · EducationGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL FBO PR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $1,000,000 · OtherGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL…ASF - ACCESS STRATEGIES FUND: $400,000 · OtherASF - ACCESS STRATEGIES …COMMON GOOD FINANCE FBO KIBILIO GRANT FOR REFUGE PURCHASE: $255,000 · OtherCOMMON GOOD FINANCE FBO …RESIST INC: $240,000 · OtherRESIST INCNORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FBO TRUTH TELLING PROJECT: $180,000 · OtherNORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UN…PROTEUS FUND FBO JEWISH LIBERATION FUND: $170,500 · OtherPROTEUS FUND FBO JEWISH …+45 more: $410,466 · Other+45 moreAGITARTE INC: $1,666,309 · Arts & CultureAGITARTE INCKibilio Inc: $200,000 · Arts & CultureKibilio Inc+3 more: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTIDES FOUNDATION: $325,000 · PhilanthropyJubilee Gift Galaxy Inc: $70,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network Inc: $48,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $80,000 · Crime & LegalFJC: $20,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & LegalSTATE POWER FUND: $60,000 · Human ServicesPAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS: $10,000 · Human ServicesAYNI INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $24,200 · Civil RightsMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $20,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Education$6,883,000Other$2,655,966Arts & Culture$1,906,309Philanthropy$446,500Crime & Legal$101,000Human Services$76,500Civil Rights$45,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $6,860,500 over 8y, 36% of budgetAGITARTE INC: $1,666,309 over 8y, 49% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $325,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESIST INC: $240,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJubilee Gift Galaxy Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSTATE POWER FUND: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $48,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $24,200 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFJC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDCARE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDelta Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetJOIN FOR JUSTICE INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreat NeckManhasset Community Child Care Partnership Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE IMPACT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVEGAN OUTREACH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLA PLANTA: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Four Corners Action Coalition: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAYNI INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLES RIGHTS FUND INC: $3,840 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetT'RUAH: $2,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW PRESS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAIR & OPEN TESTING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSVARA: $886 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED HOUMA NATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE FORWARD SCHOLARS FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF TULIP: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chain Collaborative: $300 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationImpactassetsincThe Ford FoundationProteus Fund IncBoston Foundation IncNew Venture FundSilicon Valley Commun…Solidaire Network IncWellspring Philanthro…The Nathan Cummings F…Marguerite Casey Foun…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC35.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Ford Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Solidaire Network Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Marguerite Casey 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 Caroline & Sigmund Schott Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caroline & Sigmund Schott Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Caroline & Sigmund Schott Fund?

Find your warmest path to Caroline & Sigmund Schott Fund 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 77 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home