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The Fred E Scholl Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Fred E Scholl Charitable Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.3M
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Education$2.3MYouth Development$1.9MHealth$164kPhilanthropy$104kEnvironment$13kArts & Culture$10kAnimals$10kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2021 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k6 grants · $18k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.0M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND FOUNDATION FOR COLLEGE NOW$2,000,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND$1,700,000
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (KNIGHT)$250,000
CLEVELAND FOUNDATION FOR CVNP$150,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND (SCHOLARSHIPS)$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND$50,000
CONSERVANCY CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK$7,500
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN$2,500
METRO HEALTH M&I$1,000
JOSEPH HOUSE OF CLEVELAND$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $3k → 8%DENVER DUMB FRIENDS: $3k → 12%BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (KNIGHT): $250k → 12%CONSERVANCY CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $8k → 13%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $2k → 15%OHIO GUIDESTONE: $2k → 17%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $2k → 8%DENVER DUMB FRIENDS: $2k → 12%BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (KNIGHT): $20k → 12%CONSERVANCY CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $5k → 13%CLEVELAND FOUNDATION FOR COLLEGE NOW: $2.0M → 17%CLEVELAND FOUNDATION FOR CVNP: $150k → 17%CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY WILDLIFE CAMPAIGN: $5k → 17%UNITED WAY: $4k → 17%METRO HEALTH M&I: $1k → 17%METRO HEALTH M&I: $1k → 17%COLLEGE NOW (SCHOLARSHIPS 42000 SERVICE FEE 4000): $46k → 17%COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND RE MALONE GOLF OUTING: $5k → 17%COLLEGE NOW (SCHOLARSHIP INVOICE): $4k → 17%JOSEPH HOUSE OF CLEVELAND: $1k → 17%ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 17%ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME EDUCATIONAL FUND: $10k → 17%ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $1.7M → 17%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $50k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $50k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND (SCHOLARSHIPS): $50k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND (SCHOLARSHIPS): $3k → 17%EASTER SEALS NORTHEAST OHIO: $5k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $1k → 17%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.
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 8 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$2.2M
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+33%

Still filing today

38%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
HealthEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • CF
    CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +59%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +57%
  • AC
    ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CN
    COLLEGE NOW (SCHOLARSHIPS 42000 SERVICE FEE 4000)
    one grant, 2020 · $46k
  • RR
    ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME EDUCATIONAL FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • CZ
    CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY WILDLIFE CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND FOUNDATION FOR COLLEGE NOW: $2,000,000 · OtherCLEVELAND FOUNDATION FOR COLLEGE NOWBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $1,800,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELANDBOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (KNIGHT): $270,000 · OtherBOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (KNIGHT)CLEVELAND FOUNDATION FOR CVNP: $150,000 · Other+13 more: $145,900 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $12,500 · EnvironmentMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $5,000 · HealthOhioGuidestone: $2,000 · HealthTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $2,000 · Education
Other$4,365,900Community Improvement$100,000Environment$12,500Health$7,000Education$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $2,000 over 1y, 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
  • Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Fred E Scholl Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fred E Scholl Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 22 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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