How much did CHARLES ELMER SCHOLARSHIP FUND grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of CHARLES ELMER 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.

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k12 grants · $36k
$10k–50k2 grants · $23k

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY$12,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$10,750
CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$5,000
LAKE ERIE COLLEGE$4,750
Northeast Ohio Medical University$4,000
Wheaton College$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$3,500
John Carroll University$3,250
OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY$3,000
LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$2,750
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$1,500
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$1,250
UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION$1,250
BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY$1,250

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$424k · 24 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$424k

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%

+4%

Still filing today

46%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationEmploymentOther

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

GC
GROVE CITY COLLEGE
3× · 2018–2020 · $8k · revenue +108%
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
4× · 2018–2023 · $7k · revenue +17%
Wheaton College
2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +13%

Funded once

NY
NEW YORK UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +59%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +26%
HC
HIRAM COLLEGE
one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -17%

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.

Union University

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

Education

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

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

Oberlin College

Core values derived from our mission include: - Educational Excellence: The College of Arts and Sciences and Conservatory of Music are committed to educating students to achieve academic and musical excellence in an environment where…

Education

Augsburg University

A private lutheran four-year university located in downtown minneapolis.

Education

Lincoln Memorial University

Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.

Education

Tiffin University

Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.

Education

Niagara University

Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives though programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.

Education

The College of Wooster

The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community.

Education

Lehigh University

Lehigh university strives to earn international prominence as a universty of special distinction and provide students with opportunities for success through its integration of teaching, research and service to society.

Education

Cedarville University

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

Education

The University of Findlay

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

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 75 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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%1/26

the rest of the field

6,874/74,280

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.

04the grantee network

23 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)

22/23

Grantees still filing

12/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$354,497Education$94,750Employment$8,000

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.

National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · The Ohio Foundation Of · Premier Bank Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Oscar & Hildegard Thiele Scholarship Fund · Ann McConahay Educational Foundation · Fw Albrecht Family Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Park 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 CHARLES ELMER 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.

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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 12% 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 Charles Elmer Scholarship Fund?

Find your warmest path to Charles Elmer 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.

CHARLES ELMER SCHOLARSHIP FUND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Charles Elmer Scholarship Fund?

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CHARLES ELMER SCHOLARSHIP FUND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Charles Elmer Scholarship Fund?

More from the funding graph