New York · Private foundation
Otto a Shults Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $47k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,339
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,696
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $893k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Otto a Shults Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $47k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $44k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $47k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $54k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $49k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $48k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $50k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nazareth University | $108,714 | 9 | 0% |
| St John Fisher University | $86,970 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $21,745 | 9 | 0% |
| St Thomas More Church | $21,744 | 9 | n/a |
| The Aquinas Institute of Rochester | $21,744 | 9 | 0% |
| McQuaid Jesuit High School | $21,744 | 9 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($152k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Otto a Shults Foundation
- How much does Otto a Shults Foundation give?
- Otto a Shults Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $46,781 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Otto a Shults Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Religion (35%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are Otto a Shults Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nazareth University ($109k), St John Fisher University ($87k), University of Rochester ($22k).
- Does Otto a Shults Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Otto a Shults Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Otto a Shults Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Otto a Shults Foundation based?
- Otto a Shults Foundation is based in NY.
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