Multiplying Love:
Mobilizing Resources.
Building loving communities. Advancing Youth Well-Being.
Welcome to Schott’s FY2026 Impact Report
How we invest our resources reveals what, and whom, we value.
At Schott, we believe young people are among our nation’s greatest assets. More than that, we believe they are worthy of our love, not an abstract or sentimental love, but one expressed through action. The kind that invests. The kind that shares power and refuses to give up on a young person or their community…
John H. Jackson
President and CEO
stories from the heart
Mobilizing Resources
In FY2026, as a philanthropic intermediary, the Schott Foundation brought donors together to fuel community-led campaigns and Schott initiatives that drive systemic change and improve young people’s well-being.
Partners invest in Schott to build a future in which every young person is healthy, educated, economically secure, technologically prepared, civically engaged, powerful, and thriving.
Partners Speak
Schott partners recognize that people closest to the challenges are closest to the solutions.
In FY2026, Schott connected donor partners with organizations, shifting power to those with the know-how to target resources to make the system changes that meet their communities’ needs.
Schott Partners in impact
As an intermediary, Schott Foundation brings together donor partners to make game-changing investments in our nation’s young people and the systems that serve them.
At Schott, love becomes powerful when it becomes collective action.
In FY2026, Schott advanced its pivotal role as a bridge for donors to coalesce resources and impact communities. As a philanthropic intermediary, we collaborated with our donor partners to provide funding as well as other critical strategic resources and support to movement organizations and campaigns for youth well-being.
As a national public fund and movement-building organization, we seek to dramatically increase the capacity of advocates nationally and across 24 states, with a specific focus on three regions: the Northeast, South, and West.
Schott pools and leverages funding to increase parent- and youth-led organizations’ capacity, impact, and results at a scale greater than any individual contribution would allow.
in FY2026:
Dollars pooled from donor partners*
Grants made
Technical assistance hours provided to grantees
Grant dollars awarded*
Schott has moved over $55 million to grassroots organizations since its founding.
* Note: As Schott’s fiscal year is July 1 to June 30, these figures reflect our grantmaking from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 captured in our FY 2026 unaudited financial statement.
View Schott Foundation’s Financials
Coalescing Philanthropy
Shifting the philanthropic sector to build winning movements has meant venturing into uncharted territory, sharing discoveries and insights as we go. Schott’s donor partners support these initiatives and research projects.
Meet The Team
Meet the Schott staff and read their mottos for FY2027.
Learn about the Schott Board of Directors.
We can only do this with your help
Donors and funders invest in Schott to advance youth well-being and build a future where every young person knows they matter, belong, and are worthy of opportunity.
When I think of Multiplying Love, I think about what becomes possible when people come together around a shared commitment to young people, families, and communities.
Throughout my career, I’ve seen love multiplied when people closest to the challenges shape the solutions. Communities make that possibility real every day through organizing, leadership, and collective action…
Marc Philpart
Board Chair
This report was brought to you by:
Melissa Daar Carvajal, Donor Communications and Marketing Director
Kayla Henderson Wood, Communications Manager
Patrick St. John, Narrative and Digital Campaign Director
Cover Art: Rafael Arzuaga
Video Editor: MediaMakeChange, Tara L. Conley, EdD
Thanks to all of our contributors!