Ohio · Private foundation
Louis & Melba Schott Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $100k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Louis & Melba Schott Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $100k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $90k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $85k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $88k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clifton Cultural Arts Center | $132,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Cincinnati Youth Collaborative | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Healthcare Connection Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| A Child's Hope International | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Focus on Youth Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Upspring | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Cincinnati Golden Gloves for Youth | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Cincinnati Urban Promise Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clifton Cultural Arts Center | $132,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Cincinnati Youth Collaborative | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Healthcare Connection Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| A Child's Hope International | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Focus on Youth Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Upspring | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Cincinnati Golden Gloves for Youth | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Cincinnati Urban Promise Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cancer Family Care Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Stepping Stones Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Beech Acres | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Josh Cares Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Talbert House | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Envision Children | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Elementz | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Louis & Melba Schott Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Millstone Fund · Josephine S Russell Charitable · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial
How this is measured
About Louis & Melba Schott Foundation
- How much does Louis & Melba Schott Foundation give?
- Louis & Melba Schott Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Louis & Melba Schott Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Health (21%), Youth Development (17%).
- Who are Louis & Melba Schott Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Clifton Cultural Arts Center ($133k), Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ($50k), The Healthcare Connection Inc ($50k).
- Does Louis & Melba Schott Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louis & Melba Schott Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Louis & Melba Schott Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sutphin Family Foundation Ica, Andrew Jergens Foundation, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
- Where is Louis & Melba Schott Foundation based?
- Louis & Melba Schott Foundation is based in OH.
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