· Private foundation
Forrest and Minnie Oates Schsp Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE | $2,250 |
| TROY UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $1,375 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $875 |
| JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA | $500 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2025 · $9k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA6× · 2018–2025 · $8k
- TUTROY UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2025 · $6k
Funded once
- JSJEFFERSON STATE COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $1k
- HJHALEY JOHNSON CO AUBURN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $1k
- BWBRITTON WADE CO UNIV OF MONTEVALLOone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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.
Johnson university is a private, coeducational institution of higher learning offering associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.
Provide a christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others.
To assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
To provide financial support to the JSU academic programs, student scholarships as well as general university support.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
An Episcopal University composed of the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Theology.
To provide instruction for approximately 5,200 students in undergraduate and graduate courses.
To provide quality post secondary educational opportunities and contribute to the betterment of society through research and development
A presbyterian church related university that provides undergraduate liberal arts education.
Saint martin's university is a catholic benedictine institute of higher education that empowers students to pursue a lifetime of learning and accomplishment in all arenas of human endeavor.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Higher Education - Bachelor and Master degrees - accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
How this is measured
4 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. 4 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Simpson Foundation · The Mouron Family Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Forrest and Minnie Oates Schsp Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forrest and Minnie Oates Schsp Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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