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Joseph J Schott Foundation at a glance

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Joseph J Schott Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$502k
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.3MEducation$499kArts & Culture$484kHuman Services$275kHousing & Shelter$230kReligion$180kPhilanthropy$163kFood & Nutrition$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $152k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$115,000
TRIDENT ACADEMY$50,000
CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION$25,000
ROPER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION$25,000
ST RITA$10,000
N MICHIGAN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
CRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC$10,000
TRIDENT UNITED WAY$10,000
MCLAREN N MICHIGAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARLESTON$10,000
ONE80 PLACE$10,000
MUSC FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $4k → 13%SIMPLE NEEDS GA INC: $5k → 8%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%SIMPLE NEEDS GA INC: $5k → 8%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%GUADALUPE CENTER: $2k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $1k → 10%LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH: $3k → 11%YOUTH HAVEN: $3k → 10%BLISS SPIRITUAL CO-OP: $3k → 12%BLISS SPIRITUAL CO-OP: $3k → 12%BLISS SPIRITUAL CO-OP: $1k → 12%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

AK
IL
WI
MI
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
MD
KS
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 78 repeat orgs$336k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
38

Total granted

$3.2M
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+22%

Still filing today

59%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SM
    SCHOTT MEMORIAL CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $410k · revenue +18%
  • HH
    HARBOR HALL INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $250k · revenue +127%
  • CA
    CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $182k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • NM
    N MI HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • BC
    BIRMINHAM COVINGTON SCHOOL PTSA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
2
Conway Hospital Community Services

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.

Health
3
South Shore Charter School

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…

Education
4
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

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.

Human Services
5
The Charleston Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
7
St Charles Hospital Foundation

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.

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8
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
9
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
10
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

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.

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11
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

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.

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12
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
56/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOTT MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $410,000 · OtherSCHOTT MEMORIAL CENTER INCDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $165,000 · OtherDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTERROPER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $160,000 · OtherROPER HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONPORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION: $145,000 · OtherPORTER-GAUD FOUNDATIONCharleston Library Society: $121,000 · OtherCharleston Library SocietyIndividual grant recipient: $115,000 · Other+87 more: $1,081,250 · Other+87 moreHARBOR HALL INC: $250,000 · HealthHARBOR HALL INCRoper St Francis Foundation: $125,000 · HealthRoper St Francis …MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthMCLAREN NORTHERN …MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDIC…NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $22,500 · Health+9 more: $61,000 · Health+9 moreCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $181,519 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA A…Children's Museum of the Lowcountry: $100,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's…Great Lakes Center for the Arts: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGreat Lake…+3 more: $14,500 · Arts & CultureTRIDENT ACADEMY INC: $90,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationNORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC: $24,400 · EducationTHE CUSHMAN SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS: $14,500 · EducationHarbor Springs Library: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $11,500 · EducationOne-Eighty Place: $165,000 · Housing & ShelterROOM AT THE INN: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterTRIDENT UNITED WAY: $80,000 · PhilanthropyBNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $11,500 · PhilanthropyAUTISM COLLIER INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyMeet The Needs Charleston: $25,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $13,000 · Food & NutritionEDESIA INC: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,197,250Health$553,500Arts & Culture$321,019Education$195,400Housing & Shelter$176,500Philanthropy$97,000Food & Nutrition$55,500

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 budgetSCHOTT MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $410,000 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetHARBOR HALL INC: $250,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $181,519 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetOne-Eighty Place: $165,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $165,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation: $125,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCharleston Library Society: $121,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetChildren's Museum of the Lowcountry: $100,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTRIDENT ACADEMY INC: $90,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTRIDENT UNITED WAY: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHERA Inc: $47,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt Rita School For The Deaf: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMeet The Needs Charleston: $25,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetGreat Lakes Center for the Arts: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC: $24,400 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $22,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CUSHMAN SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER ALLIANCE NETWORK INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY ANGELS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE REPERTORY COMPANY: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHarbor Springs Library: $10,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetROOM AT THE INN: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSimple Needs GA Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBLISS SPIRITUAL CO-OP: $6,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Resource Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIBU Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWAKE UP CAROLINA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPELOTONIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAggieland Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Coastal Community Fou…Central Carolina Comm…Post and Courier Foun…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Gaylord and Dorothy D…John M Rivers Jr Foun…Foundation for the Ca…Bny Mellon Charitable…Publix Super Markets …Collier Community Fou…Wayne and Alicia Greg…Guffey Family Foundat…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC32.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Joseph J Schott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph J Schott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
19report 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.

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 133 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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