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Jay and Jean Schottenstein Foundation at a glance

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Jay and Jean Schottenstein 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.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$6.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$49MEducation$13MInternational$4.3MArts & Culture$3.5MPhilanthropy$1.7MHealth$1.2MCivil Rights$743kHuman Services$342kOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $628k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+9 grants · $15M
$25,354
Median grant
10
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NER L HOREINU INC$6,383,681
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS$1,916,500
MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION$1,601,488
GEMILOS CHASADIM CHASDEI MOSHE$1,363,000
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,154,544
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$1,093,000
YESHIVA TORAS YISRAEL$560,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC$281,755
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$253,522
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$224,840
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHASDEI YOSEPH$221,000
CONGREGATION TORAT EMET$216,500
COLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY$194,500
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$101,929
HADASSAH$101,454
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RELIEF RESOURCES: $18k → 20%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 15%COMMUNITY PROJECT: $5k → 15%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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MD
AZ
TN
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68M · 65 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
42

Total granted

$68M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+1%

Still filing today

42%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MH
    MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +60%
  • NL
    NER L HOREINU INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +45%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • EI
    EZRAT ISRAEL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • SM
    SWC MUSEUM CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +111%
  • ML
    MERKOS LINYONEI CHINUCH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $170k
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
University of Judaism Foundation
—
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
4
American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion
5
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
6
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
7
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
8
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
9
Sherit Isroel
—
10
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
11
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
12
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesorah Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Glsen 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

69 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. 69 of the 136 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/69
Grantees still filing
48/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEMILOS CHASODIM CHASDEI MOSHE: $11,521,900 · OtherGEMILOS CHASODIM CHASDEI MOSHEFRIENDS OF ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY: $7,355,282 · OtherFRIENDS OF ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITYHEBREW ACADEMY OF MIAMI: $4,224,013 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF MIAMIYESHIVA TORAS YISRAEL: $2,932,000 · OtherYESHIVA TORAS YISRAELWestern Wall Heritage Foundation Inc: $1,647,079 · OtherAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $1,484,786 · OtherHADASSAH: $1,401,454 · Other+74 more: $8,841,827 · Other+74 moreMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $7,703,362 · Arts & CultureMESORAH HERITAG…Brothers for Life: $1,411,238 · Arts & CultureBrothers for Li…SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $742,976 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHA…+3 more: $392,114 · Arts & CultureNER L HOREINU INC: $6,946,181 · ReligionNER L HOREINU …NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS: $1,916,500 · ReligionNATIONAL SOCIE…Chabad of Columbus Inc: $489,000 · Religion+13 more: $422,500 · ReligionOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,404,348 · EducationOHIO STATE U…COLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY: $1,099,522 · EducationCOLUMBUS TOR…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $439,750 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $424,274 · Education+4 more: $105,500 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC: $1,845,693 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,487,390 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $222,808 · International+7 more: $322,503 · InternationalJewish Federation of Columbus: $450,000 · PhilanthropyO A E PINSK KARLIN INC: $360,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $307,641 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $204,040 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNAI LEVY FOUNDATION: $172,000 · PhilanthropyColumbus Jewish Foundation: $74,364 · Philanthropy+6 more: $117,500 · PhilanthropyMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,027,762 · Health+2 more: $28,360 · Health
Other$39,408,341Arts & Culture$10,249,690Religion$9,774,181Education$8,473,394International$3,878,394Philanthropy$1,685,545Health$1,056,122

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 budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $7,703,362 over 5y, 16% of budgetNER L HOREINU INC: $6,946,181 over 2y, 22% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,404,348 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC: $1,845,693 over 5y, 19% of budgetWestern Wall Heritage Foundation Inc: $1,647,079 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,487,390 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $1,484,786 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetBrothers for Life: $1,411,238 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY: $1,099,522 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,027,762 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $742,976 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetChabad of Columbus Inc: $489,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetJewish Federation of Columbus: $450,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $439,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $424,274 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetO A E PINSK KARLIN INC: $360,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $307,641 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $300,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSWC MUSEUM CORP: $250,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $226,800 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $222,808 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $204,040 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNAI LEVY FOUNDATION: $172,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $150,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $144,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $116,114 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAAGALIM INC: $100,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetHADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $97,478 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEXLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetColumbus Jewish Foundation: $74,364 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS & NASSAU COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY STUDIES: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetJEWISH EMPOWERMENT MOVEMENT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetDEGEL YERUSHALAYIM CULTURAL FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGY & SECURITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetJEWISH LIFELINE NETWORK INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $43,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetJewish Heritage Programs: $40,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLSEN INC: $35,152 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC: $30,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLegacy Connections: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SEPHARDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $26,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChayenu Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NER L HOREINU INC ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC ↗
  • Who funds Western Wall Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Chabad of Columbus Inc ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Columbus ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds O A E PINSK KARLIN INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
  • Who funds SWC MUSEUM CORP ↗
  • Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ojc FundColumbus Jewish Found…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Associated Jewish Cha…FjcLori Schottenstein Fo…Jewish Federation of …Greater Miami Jewish …Jon and Susan Diamond…Jewish Federation of …Saul Schottenstein Fo…
Jewish Communal FundNY37.2× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Fjc · Lori Schottenstein Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Jon and Susan Diamond Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Columbus · Saul Schottenstein Foundation C

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 Jay and Jean Schottenstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jay and Jean Schottenstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Yehudi Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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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Find your warmest path to Jay and Jean 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 136 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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