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The Schoch 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.

$191k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$219kEducation$198kPhilanthropy$103kYouth Development$42kHealth$7kInternational$2kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUZANNE REHL CHARITABLE TRUST$100,000
USC SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS$30,000
THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL$21,000
THE PATH FUND INC$15,000
RED BULL THEATER$10,000
THE PATH FUND INC$8,700
THE PATH FUND INC$2,500
USC ASSOCIATES$1,500
USC ASSOCIATES$1,500
USC ASSOCIATES ASSOCIATES$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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $109k → 7%THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $21k → 10%CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $5k → 22%ST HELENA MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5k → 9%USC SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS: $30k → 14%RED BULL THEATER: $10k → 17%THE PALM BEACH OPERA GUILD: $10k → 11%BROADWAY DREAMS FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%OCEAN CITY POPS: $8k → 10%GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $8k → 7%THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $10k → 10%SUZANNE REHL CHARITABLE TRUST: $100k → 22%USC ASSOCIATES: $2k → 14%RED BULL THEATER: $6k → 17%THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION OF PALM BEACH: $4k → 11%BROADWAY DREAMS FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%OCEAN CITY POPS: $3k → 10%GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $6k → 7%THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $5k → 10%THE WHARTON FUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%USC ASSOCIATES: $2k → 14%RED BULL THEATER: $2k → 17%PALM BEACH SYMPHONY: $5k → 11%BROADWAY DREAMS FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5k → 7%the shipley school: $5k → 10%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $16k → 22%USC ASSOCIATES ASSOCIATES: $1k → 14%BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $3k → 17%THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK: $5k → 11%BROADWAY DREAMS FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5k → 7%THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $5k → 10%THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY: $3k → 11%BROADWAY DREAMS FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5k → 7%THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $1k → 10%THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK: $1k → 11%boys and girls club of palm beach county: $3k → 11%THE FIRST TEE OF THE PALM BEACHES: $1k → 11%THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $20k → 11%INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH: $2k → 11%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$363k · 8 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$363k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-2%

Still filing today

88%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth 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

  • TG
    THE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $138k · revenue +60%
  • SS
    SHIPLEY SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +8%
  • RB
    RED BULL THEATER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Society of the Four Arts Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue ×11
  • MC
    MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2024 · $16k · revenue +15%
  • TP
    THE PALM BEACH OPERA GUILD INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -11%
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
Royal Palm Players Inc

Royal palm players is dedicated to providing boca grande and surrounding communities with outstanding live theater and drama education in order to create a deeper sense of community, provide grist for thoughtfull discussion, and enrich the…

Arts & Culture
2
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education
3
The Palmetto Opera

To raise awareness of opera and fine arts in sc.

Arts & Culture
4
Amda Inc (American Musical and Dramatic Academy)

Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…

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5
The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc

See schedule o.the mission of the new york philharmonic encompasses the following key attributes:(1) to maintain and foster an interest in the enjoyment of music and musical affairs; (2) to inculcate an interest in symphonic music among…

Arts & Culture
6
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc

See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…

Arts & Culture
7
Broadway By the Bay

To inspire, educate, and engage the community and local talent through the power of musical theater.

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8
Princeton Pro Musica

Laws of the state of new jersey. the mission of the organization is to perform choral masterworks and other works of the choral literature with energy, passion, and uncompromising artistic excellence. the organization believes in the power…

Arts & Culture
9
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc

To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…

Arts & Culture
10
Palm Beach Day Academy Inc

The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.

Education
11
Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival

Present the world's greatest musical artists in chamber music concerts of classical and alternative genres for diverse audiences. offer music education to concert attendees, students, and aspiring young musicians.

Arts & Culture
12
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 24 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $138,282 · OtherTHE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOLSUZANNE REHL CHARITABLE TRUST: $100,000 · OtherSUZANNE REHL CHARITABLE TRUSTUSC SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS: $30,000 · OtherUSC SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTSTHE PATH FUND INC: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,451 · Other+8 more: $21,246 · Other+8 moreBroadway Dreams Foundation Corporation: $38,500 · Arts & CultureBroadway Dreams Founda…The Society of the Four Arts Inc: $20,308 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Fou…RED BULL THEATER INC: $17,990 · Arts & CultureRED BULL THEATER INCMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $16,000 · Arts & CultureMANN CENTER FOR THE PE…THE PALM BEACH OPERA GUILD INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BEACH OPERA G…THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $8,079 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHON…THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC: $6,000 · Arts & CulturePATH FUND INC: $95,450 · PhilanthropyPATH FUND INCSHIPLEY SCHOOL: $47,073 · EducationSHIPLEY SC…CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $5,067 · EducationCHESTNUT H…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$315,979Arts & Culture$116,877Philanthropy$95,450Education$52,140Youth Development$2,500

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 GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $138,282 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPATH FUND INC: $95,450 over 6y, 15% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL: $47,073 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBroadway Dreams Foundation Corporation: $38,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $20,308 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRED BULL THEATER INC: $17,990 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH OPERA GUILD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $8,079 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC: $6,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $5,067 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Helena Montessori School Inc: $4,675 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PALM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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.

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 Philadelphia Foun…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Schoch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schoch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Children's Golf Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Schoch Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Schoch 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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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