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Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.1M
Granted FY2022
110
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$525k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$7.1MHealth$5.9MHuman Services$3.5MAnimals$3.1MRecreation & Sports$3.1MReligion$2.5MArts & Culture$2.1MYouth Development$1.7MOther$0
02FY2022 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k16 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k65 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY$100,000
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$100,000
ST MARY'S CHURCH$100,000
ST RITA'S SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF$100,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$100,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $200k → 6%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $10k → 14%KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $200k → 6%FOCUS ON YOUTH: $15k → 12%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $10k → 14%KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%FOCUS ON YOUTH: $10k → 12%KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $150k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $75k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $75k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $50k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $50k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $50k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $10k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $10k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $10k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $10k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $10k → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST: $25k → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST: $15k → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST: $10k → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST: $10k → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST: $10k → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $100k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 16%ST MARGARET HALL: $50k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 16%SAINT MARGARET HALL: $50k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $20k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $20k → 16%SAINT MARGARET HALL: $20k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $15k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $10k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $10k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $10k → 16%KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%LADD: $25k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $25k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $25k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $15k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $10k → 16%THE DAD INITIATIVE: $100k → 16%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

IL
NY
IN
OH
CA
MO
KY
DC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 153 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

153
70

Total granted

$29M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+38%

Still filing today

56%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TC
    The Christ Hospital
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +62%
  • MU
    Maryville University - St Louis
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +38%
  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CROWN CINCINNATI CO GREEN UMBRELLA
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $360k
  • TS
    THE SUMMIT
    one grant, 2021 · $273k
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
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
2
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
3
Cincinnati Union Bethel

Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.

Human Services
4
Cincinnati Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education
5
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
6
Clermont Counseling Center

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
7
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
8
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

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.

Civil Rights
9
The Home Ownership Center of Greater Cincinnati in

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.

Housing & Shelter
10
The Cincinnati Health Network Inc

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…

Health
11
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio

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.

Human Services
12
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati; 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.
04the grantee network

136 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
132/136
Grantees still filing
101/136
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI ZOO: $3,092,500 · OtherCINCINNATI ZOOST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL INC: $1,401,000 · OtherST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL INCTHE CROWN CINCINNATI CO GREEN UMBRELLA: $1,000,000 · OtherOUR LORD CHRIST THE KING: $900,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER: $806,000 · Other+133 more: $15,751,973 · Other+133 moreMaryville University - St Louis: $1,000,000 · EducationMaryville U…XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · EducationXAVIER UNIV…CINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $689,000 · EducationCINCINNATI …Cincinnati Youth Collaborative: $300,000 · EducationCincinnati …+7 more: $230,000 · Education+7 moreThe Christ Hospital: $1,250,000 · HealthIMPACT AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · HealthCENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC: $100,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $96,000 · HealthRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $85,000 · Health+15 more: $383,000 · HealthKAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $700,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $450,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $300,000 · Human ServicesST MARGARET HALL: $120,000 · Human ServicesDAD INIATIVE: $100,000 · Human ServicesPREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC: $80,000 · Human Services+13 more: $372,500 · Human ServicesMUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INC: $800,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $115,000 · Arts & CultureProKids: $700,000 · Civil RightsCISE Foundation: $533,000 · PhilanthropyCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $70,000 · Philanthropy
Other$22,951,473Education$3,219,000Health$2,314,000Human Services$2,122,500Arts & Culture$990,000Civil Rights$700,000Philanthropy$603,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Christ Hospital: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INC: $800,000 over 5y, 61% of budgetKAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $700,000 over 5y, 86% of budgetProKids: $700,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetCINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $689,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS: $600,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetCISE Foundation: $533,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI: $462,900 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $450,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetIMPACT AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 5y, 48% of budgetCAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetCORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC: $350,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetCincinnati Youth Collaborative: $300,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $300,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $263,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD: $250,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetSt Rita School For The Deaf: $250,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $150,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetST MARGARET HALL: $120,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetST JOSEPH HOME INC: $110,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetDAD INIATIVE: $100,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetTENDER MERCIES INC: $100,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBethany House Services Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC: $100,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetKILGOUR FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetTHE HEALTHCARE CONNECTION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $96,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $90,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS: $85,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOVER THE RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSING: $83,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC: $80,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $70,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $65,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHYDE PARK MULTI-SERVICE CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS: $60,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS: $55,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAdopt A Class Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $50,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetOhio River Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetBEECHWOOD HOME: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 The Christ Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 OUR DAILY BREAD ↗

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Edelweiss FoundationJohn a Schroth Family…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Sutphin Family Founda…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…The Thomas J Emery Me…Johnson Charitable Gi…Unnewehr Family Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…Millstone FundUnited Way of Greater…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH135.5× affinity99 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Community Builders Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to Marge & Charles J Schott 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 250 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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