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Lori Schottenstein Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $251k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $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

NY
OH
NJ
MO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 31 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
13

Total granted

$2.6M
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+3%

Still filing today

58%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationAnimalsArts & CultureReligionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CO
    Chabad of Columbus Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $620k · revenue +180%
  • CT
    COLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +113%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • FH
    FALLEN HEROES FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $54k · revenue +234%
  • CO
    CHABAD ON CAMPUS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
2
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area

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,…

Human Services
3
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

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.

Philanthropy
4
Columbus Cares for Cats
—
5
Foundation for Cincinnati Jewish Seniors formerly Jewish Home of Cincinnati Inc
Health
6
University of Judaism Foundation
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7
Columbus Jewish Historical Society

To facilitate the collection, preservation and education of the jewish history of central ohio.

Arts & Culture
8
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
9
Fuchs Mizrachi Schools

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.

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10
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

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…

—
12
Hillel the Foundation of Jewish Campus Life

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…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 46 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOTTENSTEIN CHABAD HOUSE: $200,000 · OtherSCHOTTENSTEIN CHABAD HOUSECONGREGATION TORAT EMET: $163,000 · OtherCONGREGATION TORAT EMETCHABAD ON CAMPUS AT OSU: $136,000 · OtherCHABAD ON CAMPUS AT OSURABBI ALEXANDER S GROSS HEBREW ACADEMY: $125,000 · OtherRABBI ALEXANDER S GROSS HEBREW ACADEMYFALLEN HEROES FUND: $100,000 · OtherFALLEN HEROES FUNDCOLUMBUS COMMUNITY MIKVAH FUND AT CJ FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS COMMUNITY MIKVAH FUND AT CJ FOUNDA…NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $80,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $70,000 · OtherBOYSGIRLS CLUB OF COLUMBUS: $60,000 · OtherMid-Ohio Foodbank: $55,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD: $50,000 · OtherCHABAD ON CAMPUS: $50,000 · Other+17 more: $218,000 · Other+17 moreColumbus Jewish Foundation: $520,500 · PhilanthropyColumbus Jewish Foundat…Jewish Federation of Columbus: $216,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of Co…+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyChabad of Columbus Inc: $620,000 · ReligionChabad of Columbus In…JewishColumbus: $72,000 · ReligionJewishColumbusCOLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY: $193,000 · EducationCOLUMBUS TO…OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $120,100 · EducationOHIO STATE …YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNI…COLUMBUS HUMANE: $100,000 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $90,000 · AnimalsBella Run Equine: $40,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $54,000 · Arts & CultureMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHEARTS ALIGNED: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $9,500 · Human Services
Other$1,407,000Philanthropy$751,500Religion$692,000Education$373,100Animals$230,000Arts & Culture$129,000Human Services$84,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 Jewish Foundation: $520,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetJewish Federation of Columbus: $216,000 over 3y, 0.8% 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
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 Chabad of Columbus Inc ↗
  • Who funds Columbus Jewish Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Columbus ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HUMANE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds JewishColumbus ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds Bella Run Equine ↗
  • Who funds THE RIDGE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS ALIGNED ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FIREFIGHTER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds STONEWALL COLUMBUS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEENA MAGOWITZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS 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.

Columbus FoundationColumbus Jewish Found…United Way of Central…Jay and Jean Schotten…L Brands FoundationJewish Federation of …Cardinal Health Found…American Electric Pow…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Nutis Foundation IncJon and Susan Diamond…Ann and Ari Deshe Fou…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lori Schottenstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lori Schottenstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.
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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.

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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