· Private foundation
Joseph J Schott Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $152k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $115,000 |
| TRIDENT ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| ROPER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MCLAREN N MICHIGAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ONE80 PLACE | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARLESTON | $10,000 |
| N MICHIGAN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER | $10,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| TRIDENT UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $10,000 |
| MUSC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST RITA | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SMSCHOTT MEMORIAL CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $410k · revenue +18%
- HHHARBOR HALL INC4× · 2019–2022 · $250k · revenue +127%
- CACAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2024 · $182k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMIone grant, 2018 · $25k
- NMNORTHERN MICHIGAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k
- NMN MI HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
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.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chera Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 133 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SCHOTT MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HALL INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
- Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
- Who funds Charleston Library Society ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHERA Inc ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Rita School For The Deaf ↗
- Who funds Meet The Needs Charleston ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CUSHMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · John M Rivers Jr Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Wayne and Alicia Gregory Family Foundation Fka River Oaks Foundation · Guffey Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Joseph J Schott Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Cushman School Inc — 0% of income from government
- North Naples Education Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.