Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION
THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,724,505 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,000,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $46M
- Net assets
- $16M
What The Schott Foundation for Public Education does
Mission
The purpose of the corporation is to engage in the following activities: (1) to operate exclusively for charitable and educational purposes under code section 501(c)(3), (2) to develop and strengthen a broad-based and representative movement to achieve fully resourced, quality pre k-12 public education, and (3) to engage in any and all other lawful activities incidental to and in pursuit of the foregoing purposes, except as specifically restricted by the articles of organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Opportunity to learn - the opportunity to learn philanthropic strategy is an effort to increase resource accountability and ensure that race is no longer a significant predictor of educational resource access or outcomes. Schott will build the capacity of the education justice movement to accomplish these objectives through increasing philanthropic resources to the opportunity to learn network, executing a grantmaking strategy using a race and gender lens, and providing advocacy and operations technical assistance to national education justice networks.
$3,124,302 spentof which $1,842,123 as grants59% of program spendingHllc provides a framework including education, health, safety, school climate, community power, etc. To equip parents, students and public school systems to create healthy community climates that are just and fair. The objectives of the hllc initiative are three-fold: 1) assess communities' cross-cutting capacity to meet the whole child needs, 2) provide recommendations and prescriptions for needed supports, and 3) support the community actions and partnerships that have proven to lead to sustainable systemic change. More than 25 cities and communities across the nation will be engaged in the hllc initiative.
$476,016 spentof which $445,000 as grants9% of program spendingSchott foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor to two national education justice organizations as part of the package of resource supports provided by schott to our community partners aligned with our work on education justice. Schott serves as the legal entity for these organizations and provides accounting, management, technical assistance, leadership development, and other administrative services while vesting decision-making authority within the organizations themselves.
$589,587 spentof which $75,300 as grants11% of program spendingExecutive alliance is an alliance of philanthropic ceos who are invested in working to improve the life expectancy and outcomes for boys and men of color.
$771,721 spentof which $625,000 as grants15% of program spendingLoving cities organizes and supports local and state grassroots leaders to actively secure full racial equity-centered funding from federal, state and local governments to address community needs.
$334,015 spent6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,295,641.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $7.7M to $16M (+106%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
85% of THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
John H Jackson
President and CEO
Board chair
Kyle Serrette
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $4.2M → $5.1M.
11 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 51% · 2019 39% · 2020 41% · 2021 28% · 2022 69% · 2023 36% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
31% of THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Opportunity to Learn Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION?
- THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,724,505 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,000,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $45,724,505 in grants to THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 58 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing