· Private foundation
Louis & Melba Schott Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPSPRING | $25,000 |
| CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE | $25,000 |
| CINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE | $20,000 |
| A CHILDS HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC | $10,000 |
| THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDU | $10,000 |
| GUIDING LIGHT FOUNDATION | $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 (FY20–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- CCClifton Cultural Arts Center4× · 2020–2023 · $133k · revenue +7%
- CYCincinnati Youth Collaborative2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +2%
- ACA Child's Hope International2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- THTHE HEALTHCARE CONNECTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +37%
- FOFOCUS ON YOUTH INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +8%
- BCBreakthrough Cincinnati Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +26%
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.
Hope Ignites Cincinnati nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…
Unlocking the self-worth and potential of at-risk teens through the transformative power of art, a first-class environment and a character-building culture. Equipping at-risk teens with skills, credentials and pathways to employment.…
Every Child Succeeds is based on a strong scientific foundation demonstrating that a nurturing and stimulating environment in the first 1,000 days of life promotes optimal brain growth, cognitive development, psycho-social adjustment,…
WordPlay Cincy sparks storytelling through creative expression and arts in healing with Cincinnatis young people to cultivate belonging, celebrate our strengths, and empower the community in its pursuit of social justice.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
Advocates on behalf of abused and neglected Children. Mobilizing our community to break the vicious cycle of child abuse and neglect and provide outstanding advocacy for abused and neglected children who are in the juvenile court system.
The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
The mission of the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. Counting members and program participants, the Y reaches more than 114,000 people…
To offer children and young adults a top quality program that develops, trains and competes as competitive swimmers year-round in a supportive and motivating enviroment that respects, challenges and nurtures them as athletes, students, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Focus On Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Child's Hope International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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.
- Who funds Clifton Cultural Arts Center ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTHCARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds A Child's Hope International ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds UPSPRING ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI GOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds Cancer Family Care Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds JOSH CARES INC ↗
- Who funds TALBERT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Elementz ↗
- Who funds ENVISION CHILDREN ↗
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: 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
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 Louis & Melba Schott 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.
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.