Ohio · Private foundation
Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $75k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,240
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 23
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $75k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $61k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $69k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $88k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $95k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kent State University | $71,903 | 5 | n/a |
| Walsh University Inc | $17,850 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Mount Union | $15,057 | 5 | 0% |
| The Ohio State University | $11,200 | 1 | n/a |
| The College of Wooster | $7,928 | 5 | 0% |
| Malone University | $6,307 | 4 | 0% |
| Ohio Northern University | $6,140 | 3 | 0% |
| Aultman Health Foundation | $6,009 | 3 | n/a |
| Mount Vernon Nazarene University | $4,709 | 2 | 0% |
| John Carroll University | $4,208 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kent State University | $71,903 | 5 | n/a |
| Walsh University Inc | $17,850 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Mount Union | $15,057 | 5 | 0% |
| The Ohio State University | $11,200 | 1 | n/a |
| The College of Wooster | $7,928 | 5 | 0% |
| Malone University | $6,307 | 4 | 0% |
| Ohio Northern University | $6,140 | 3 | 0% |
| Aultman Health Foundation | $6,009 | 3 | n/a |
| Mount Vernon Nazarene University | $4,709 | 2 | 0% |
| John Carroll University | $4,208 | 3 | 0% |
| Grove City College | $4,067 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Evansville | $3,720 | 3 | 0% |
| Ashland University | $3,540 | 2 | 0% |
| Capital University | $3,088 | 2 | 0% |
| Anderson University | $2,420 | 2 | 0% |
| Miami University | $2,420 | 2 | n/a |
| Cedarville University | $2,420 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Dayton | $1,621 | 1 | 0% |
| Marietta College | $1,621 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $1,467 | 1 | 0% |
| Tiffin University | $1,467 | 1 | 0% |
| Brigham Young University | $1,467 | 1 | n/a |
| Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State | $1,120 | 1 | n/a |
| Waynesburg University | $1,120 | 1 | 0% |
| Jackson College | $1,120 | 1 | n/a |
| Hiram College | $1,120 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Premier Bank Foundation · Eberly Da & Tb Scholarship Ta · John Q Shunk Association · Fw Albrecht Family Foundation · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Charles Koch Foundation · Stark Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Columbus Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund
- How much does Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund give?
- Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund reported 26 grants totaling $75,040 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Youth Development (0%).
- Who are Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Kent State University ($72k), Walsh University Inc ($18k), University of Mount Union ($15k).
- Does Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Paul and Carol David Foundation, Council of Independent Colleges, Premier Bank Foundation.
- Where is Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund based?
- Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund is based in OH.
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