Iowa · Private foundation
Otto Schoitz Foundation
Improve the health and well-being of the community and its individual members within the greater cedar valley region, defined as the geographical area within 30 miles from the center of waterloo, iowa. Its fy2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 56
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $74M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Otto Schoitz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k 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 | 52 | $3.6M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $3.4M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $3.5M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $3.7M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $2.2M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $2.2M | 37% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $2.8M | 66% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $2.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity | $2,568,266 | 7 | 55% |
| Cedar Valley Friends of the Family Inc | $2,029,794 | 6 | 17% |
| Christian Community Development | $1,832,779 | 7 | 61% |
| Northeast Iowa Food Bank | $1,150,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Cedar Valley | $1,150,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Peoples Community Health Clinic Inc | $1,005,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Hawkeye Community College Fdn | $675,000 | 5 | 18% |
| Successlink Inc | $625,000 | 7 | 12% |
| Grin & Grow Ltd | $618,750 | 8 | 28% |
| Waterloo Community Schools Foundation | $501,000 | 3 | 16% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Otto Schoitz Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Lsb Foundation · Cedar Valley United Way · R J McElroy Trust · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation · Trustage Foundation Inc · Duroe Family Foundation · The Gallagher Family Foundation · The Accel Foundation · GreenState Credit Union
How this is measured
About Otto Schoitz Foundation
- How much does Otto Schoitz Foundation give?
- Otto Schoitz Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $3,726,109 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Otto Schoitz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (20%), Human Services (15%), Community Improvement (14%).
- Who are Otto Schoitz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity ($2.6M), Cedar Valley Friends of the Family Inc ($2.0M), Christian Community Development ($1.8M).
- Does Otto Schoitz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Otto Schoitz Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Otto Schoitz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation, Black Hawk County Gaming Association, Lsb Foundation.
- Where is Otto Schoitz Foundation based?
- Otto Schoitz Foundation is based in IA.
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