The Otto Schoitz Foundation is seeking applications for its grants to improve the health and wellbeing of the Cedar Valley community and its individual members by funding grants.
Donor Name: Otto Schoitz Foundation
State: Iowa
City: Iowa
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/11/2026
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Otto Schoitz Foundation awards grants twice per year, in the Spring and Fall. If your organization and project align with the Foundation’s Funding Preferences, you may be eligible for funding.
Principles
Comprehensive: For sustained improvement, a broad approach is taken:
- Addressing the multi-dimensional levels of individuals, i.e., the physical, emotional and mental levels.
- Investing in the Cedar Valley community to enhance its vibrancy for all to live, learn, work, play, and age.
- Initiating change for community betterment, actively and collaboratively.
- Partnership: The Foundation partners with others to address community issues.
- Impartiality and Objectivity: To advance its mission, the Foundation objectively distributes funds to aligned organizations that do not discriminate on any basis prohibited by applicable law.
- Perpetuity: The Foundation safeguards its endowment for the betterment of generations to come.
- Continuous Improvement: The Foundation adapts, evolves and changes with the times, thereby maximizing its benefit to the Cedar Valley community.
Funding Preference
The funding preference favors proposals generating significant benefit and/or addressing serious need in the Cedar Valley community and that:
- Improve residents’ quality of life.
- Better the Cedar Valley community.
- Meet the needs of the vulnerable.
- Create equitable opportunities, particularly as it relates to racial/ethnic equity.
- Address root or primary causes.
- Show evidence of success and impact.
- Impact Waterloo, because of the greater need.
- Share funding with others.
Ineligibility
The Foundation does not fund:
- For-profit entities or not-for-profits that are not 501(c)(3) organizations
- Competitors of MercyOne
- Projects not aligned with the Foundation’s mission
- Fundraising events or endowment campaigns
- Religious events and promotions
- Multiple applications from a single entity in a given funding cycle
- Individuals
- Projects beyond the 30-mile radius of Waterloo, IA.
For more information, visit OSF.
