How much did BERNARD-WENTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of BERNARD-WENTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

—

2021

mount

2022

scholarshipsakronwalshmountkent

2023

scholarshipswest

2025

kentwest

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k25 grants · $64k
$10k–50k1 grant · $11k

$2,240

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$11,200
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON$8,960
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY$7,840
OHIO UNIVERSITY$6,720
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY TUSCARAWAS$6,720
UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION$3,360
OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY$2,240
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY$2,240
WALSH UNIVERSITY$2,240
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY$2,240
COLLEGE OF WOOSTER$2,240
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$2,240
MALONE UNIVERSITY$2,240
WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY$1,120
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY$1,120

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 92% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$362k · 27 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$362k

$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%

+19%

Still filing today

52%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION
5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +33%
ON
OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY
3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +16%
MV
MOUNT VERNON NAZARENE UNIVERSITY
2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +21%

Funded once

SA
SEE ATTACHED
one grant, 2020 · $86k
CM
CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2021 · $2k
CU
CLARION UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2021 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

University of Northwestern Ohio

The university of northwestern ohio is an entrepreneurial, not-for-profit institution of higher learning, preparing students for careers and productive citizenship.

Education

The University of Findlay

The mission of The University of Findlay is to equip our students for meaningful lives and productive careers.

Education

Union University

Union University provides Christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education

Ohio Wesleyan University

Owu is one of the nation's premier small liberal arts colleges, boasting strong relationships between students and faculty and opportunities that prepare students for service and leadership.

Education

Trine University

Trine, an internationally recognized private, independent, co-educational institution offers degrees in various programs including engineering, math, science and business.

Education

Cedarville University

Cedarville university transforms lives through excellent education and intentional discipleship in submission to biblical authority.

Education

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

Hiram College

The mission of hiram college is to foster intellectual excellence and social responsibility enabling our students to thrive in their chosen careers, flourish in life and face the urgent challenges of our times.

Education

Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover share knowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and develop leadership expressed in service to others.

Education

Huntington University

Huntington university is a christ centered institution that exists to carry out the mission of christ in higher education through a curriculum of academic excellence.

Education

Cleveland State University

The CSUF is organized primarily to engage in activities to provide support and services to CSU.

Education

Kansas City University

Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Northern University and the most unlike its peers is Grove City College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/23

the rest of the field

6,875/74,283

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

13/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$384,061Education$89,870

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ohio Foundation OfOH18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ohio Foundation Of · Council of Independent Colleges · Columbus Foundation · John Q Shunk Association · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Eberly Da & Tb Scholarship Ta · Verna M Griffee Trust · Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust · Fw Albrecht Family Foundation · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation BERNARD-WENTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~26 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 310732512 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 26 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund?

Find your warmest path to Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BERNARD-WENTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund?

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BERNARD-WENTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund?

More from the funding graph