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Crissinger Donna Daniel Scholarship Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$481kScience & Tech$6k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$24,000
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF FINDLAY$12,000
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY$6,000
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$6,000
MOUNT VERNON NAZARENE UNIVERSITY$6,000
THE OHIO STATE MARION CAMPUS$6,000
MARION TECHNICAL COLLEGE$6,000
02The need
03

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 (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF FINDLAY: $12k → 9%ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 12%MOUNT VERNON NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $24k → 15%THE OHIO STATE MARION CAMPUS: $6k → 17%MARION TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $6k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$407k · 13 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$407k
$45k

Still filing today

54%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • MV
    Mount Vernon Nazarene University
    5× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +14%
  • BW
    Baldwin Wallace University
    4× · 2020–2023 · $21k · revenue +8%
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $21k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLUMBIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY AT MARION
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • TR
    TRI RIVERS ADULT EDUCATION
    one grant, 2021 · $6k

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.

1
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
2
Excelsior University

Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…

Education
3
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
University of Mount Union

The university affirms the institution's mission to prepare students for fulfilling lives, meaningful work and responsible citizenship. the university of mount union offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide array of academic…

Education
7
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
8
Heidelberg University

Heidelberg university's mission and programs are firmly rooted in liberal arts with innovative coursework in sciences, global education, business and related graduate-level programs. quality education, services to students, a close…

Education
9
Roberts Wesleyan University

As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.

Education
10
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
11
Dordt University

As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…

Education
12
Franklin University

Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…

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

04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $154,500 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITYMARION TECHNICAL COLLEGE — $55,500 · OtherMARION TECHNICAL COLLEGETHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $24,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYBOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY — $24,000 · OtherBOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITYMIAMI UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY — $12,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $12,000 · Other+10 more — $50,750 · Other+10 moreMount Vernon Nazarene University — $27,000 · EducationMount Vernon Nazarene UniversityThe University of Findlay — $24,000 · EducationThe University of FindlayBaldwin Wallace University — $21,000 · EducationBaldwin Wallace UniversityTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE — $21,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTEN…Otterbein University — $16,500 · EducationOtterbein UniversityCALVIN UNIVERSITY — $12,000 · EducationCALVIN UNIVERSITYASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $12,000 · EducationASHLAND UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $5,981 · Education
Other$347,750Education$139,481

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMount Vernon Nazarene University — $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Findlay — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOtterbein University — $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $5,981 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Mount Vernon Nazarene University
  • Who funds The University of Findlay
  • Who funds Baldwin Wallace University
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE
  • Who funds Otterbein University
  • Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Crissinger Donna Daniel Scholarship Trust 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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