· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $251k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LORI SCHOTTENSTEIN CHABAD CENTER | $100,000 |
| COLUMBUS COMMUNITY MIKVAH FUND AT CJ FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SCHOTTENSTEIN CHABAD HOUSE | $50,000 |
| JEWISH COLUMBUS | $36,000 |
| RABBI ALEXANDER S GROSS HEBREW ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| CONGREGATION TORAT EMET | $25,000 |
| COLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| MID OHIO FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| BIKUR CHOLIM FUND AT CJ FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| COLUMBUS HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| BOYSGIRLS CLUB OF COLUMBUS | $10,000 |
| NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE | $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 (FY19–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- COChabad of Columbus Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $620k · revenue +180%
- CTCOLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +113%
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- FHFALLEN HEROES FUNDone grant, 2023 · $100k
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $54k · revenue +234%
- COCHABAD ON CAMPUSone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
To facilitate the collection, preservation and education of the jewish history of central ohio.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Angels With Autism Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 46 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.
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- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ↗
- Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS 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: 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
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 Lori Schottenstein 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 1% 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.
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