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Lori 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.

$469k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
24%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$4.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Lori Schottenstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$469k0%
FY202325$565k24%
FY202222$441k18%
FY202119$435k26%
FY202017$370k59%
FY201916$348k44%
FY201811$194k64%
FY20175$110kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.4MPhilanthropy$737kEducation$498kAnimals$240kHealth$205kPublic Safety & Disaster$125kYouth Development$110kArts & Culture$79kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
NJ
MO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chabad of Columbus Inc$620,00084%
Columbus Torah Academy$193,00081%
Congregation Torat Emet$163,0007n/a
Chabad on Campus at Osu$136,0003n/a
Ohio State University Foundation$120,10050%
Columbus Humane$100,00071%
North Shore Animal League America Inc$90,00070%
Jewish Family Services$75,00060%
JewishColumbus$72,00021%
Yeshiva University$60,00040%
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All grantees of Lori Schottenstein Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chabad of Columbus Inc$620,00084%
Columbus Torah Academy$193,00081%
Congregation Torat Emet$163,0007n/a
Chabad on Campus at Osu$136,0003n/a
Ohio State University Foundation$120,10050%
Columbus Humane$100,00071%
North Shore Animal League America Inc$90,00070%
Jewish Family Services$75,00060%
JewishColumbus$72,00021%
Yeshiva University$60,00040%
Mid-Ohio Foodbank$55,00050%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$54,00010%
Community Shelter Board$50,00040%
Mesorah Heritage Foundation$50,00050%
Bella Run Equine$40,00057%
The Ridge Project Inc$25,00020%
Hearts Aligned$25,0002n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$20,00020%
Beth Jacob Congregation$15,0003n/a
Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance$15,000113%
Stonewall Columbus Inc$15,00011%
The Seena Magowitz Foundation Inc$10,00031%
The Fraternal Order of Police Foundation$10,00024%
The Homeless Families Foundation$9,50020%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc$5,00010%
Melissa's House$5,00012%
Angels With Autism Foundation$5,000163%
Congregation Ahavas Sholom$5,0001n/a
World Wildlife Fund Inc$5,00010%
Paws for Purple Hearts$2,00020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($881k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Lori Schottenstein Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChabad of Columbus Inc: $620,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetColumbus Torah Academy: $193,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetOhio State University Foundation: $120,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetColumbus Humane: $100,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNorth Shore Animal League America Inc: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Services: $75,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJewishColumbus: $72,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYeshiva University: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $54,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Shelter Board: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMesorah Heritage Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBella Run Equine: $40,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetThe Ridge Project Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFirefighter Behavioral Health Alliance: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetStonewall Columbus Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Seena Magowitz Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Fraternal Order of Police Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetThe Homeless Families Foundation: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMelissa's House: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAngels With Autism Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Columbus FoundationOH29.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Jay and Jean Schottenstein Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Jewish Federation of Columbus · Cardinal Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Nutis Foundation Inc · Jon and Susan Diamond Family Foundation · Ann and Ari Deshe 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.

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How do I get to Lori Schottenstein Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lori 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.

About Lori Schottenstein Foundation

How much does Lori Schottenstein Foundation give?
Lori Schottenstein Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $468,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lori Schottenstein Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (39%), Philanthropy (20%), Education (14%).
Who are Lori Schottenstein Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Chabad of Columbus Inc ($620k), Columbus Torah Academy ($193k), Congregation Torat Emet ($163k).
Does Lori Schottenstein Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lori Schottenstein Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lori Schottenstein Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Columbus Jewish Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc.
Where is Lori Schottenstein Foundation based?
Lori Schottenstein Foundation is based in OH.

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 46 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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