· Private foundation
Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,200 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $8,960 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,840 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY TUSCARAWAS | $6,720 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $6,720 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION | $3,360 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY | $2,240 |
| COLLEGE OF WOOSTER | $2,240 |
| WALSH UNIVERSITY | $2,240 |
| OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY | $2,240 |
| ASHLAND UNIVERSITY | $2,240 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $2,240 |
| MALONE UNIVERSITY | $2,240 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $1,120 |
| YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,120 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Mount Union5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +16%
THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +4%- MUMALONE UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- BYBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $2k
- AUASHBURY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $2k
- UOUniversity of Daytonone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +14%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Mount Union ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗
- Who funds Mount Vernon Nazarene University ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds Marietta College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Tiffin University ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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