Ohio · Private foundation
Clapper Scholarship Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 21
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $827k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Clapper Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 16 | $40k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $26k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $32k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $43k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muskingum University | $17,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Marietta College | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Dayton | $4,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Miami University | $3,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Mount Vernon Nazarene University | $3,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Franklin University | $3,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Kent State University | $3,050 | 2 | n/a |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | $2,800 | 2 | 0% |
| The University of Findlay | $2,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Heidelberg University | $2,250 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muskingum University | $17,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Marietta College | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Dayton | $4,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Miami University | $3,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Mount Vernon Nazarene University | $3,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Franklin University | $3,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Kent State University | $3,050 | 2 | n/a |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | $2,800 | 2 | 0% |
| The University of Findlay | $2,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Heidelberg University | $2,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Indiana Wesleyan University | $2,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Ohio Technical College | $1,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Ashland University | $1,450 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Evansville | $1,450 | 1 | 0% |
| Harding University Inc | $1,450 | 1 | 0% |
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | $1,450 | 1 | 0% |
| Otterbein University | $1,350 | 1 | 0% |
| Ithaca College | $1,350 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint Francis University | $1,350 | 1 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $1,350 | 1 | 0% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $1,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Capital University | $1,350 | 1 | 0% |
| Ohio Dominican University | $1,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Russell Sage College | $850 | 1 | 0% |
| Walsh University Inc | $850 | 1 | 0% |
| Campbellsville University Inc | $850 | 1 | 0% |
| Cedarville University | $725 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Clapper Scholarship Fund supplied at peak.
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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: Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Ella Weiss Educational Fund · Columbus Foundation · Shelly Family Foundation · Coshocton Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · A K Stephenson Fdn Char Tr Agy · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Clapper Scholarship Fund
- How much does Clapper Scholarship Fund give?
- Clapper Scholarship Fund reported 16 grants totaling $39,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 21 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Clapper Scholarship Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
- Who are Clapper Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Muskingum University ($18k), Marietta College ($5k), University of Dayton ($5k).
- Does Clapper Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Clapper Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clapper Scholarship Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust, The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges, Ella Weiss Educational Fund.
- Where is Clapper Scholarship Fund based?
- Clapper Scholarship Fund is based in OH.
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