· Private foundation
Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k16 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI ZOO | $525,000 |
| ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $401,000 |
| CINCINNATI STATE | $364,000 |
| CINCINNATI CANCER ADVISORS | $275,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $200,000 |
| ACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS | $200,000 |
| WOMEN HELPING WOMEN | $150,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (ST LOUIS) | $130,000 |
| PROKIDS | $125,000 |
| PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY | $100,000 |
| ST RITA'S SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF | $100,000 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $100,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% 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.
153 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2022, 70 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k 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
- TCThe Christ Hospital5× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +62%
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +24%
- MUMaryville University - St Louis4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +38%
Funded once
- TCTHE CROWN CINCINNATI CO GREEN UMBRELLAone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2018 · $360k
- TSTHE SUMMITone grant, 2021 · $273k
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.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
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,…
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.
The cincnnati health network (chn) is a grantee for the health care for the homeless program in the greater cincinnati area and operates as a federally qualified health center. the chn is also the ryan white part c grantee and provides…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
136 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. 136 of the 250 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 The Christ Hospital ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CISE Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds IMPACT AUTISM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds St Rita School For The Deaf ↗
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Edelweiss Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Unnewehr Family Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Millstone Fund · United Way of Greater Cincinnati
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 Marge & Charles J 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.
- The Community Builders Inc — 4% 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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