· Private foundation
Cushwa William & Anna Jean Fdn
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY | $27,500 |
| WALSH UNIVERSITY | $24,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $22,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $12,500 |
| OHIO DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE | $10,000 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| HOLY CROSS COLLEGE | $9,500 |
| SAINT MARYS COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
John Carroll University5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +16%- WUWalsh University Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +2%
- SVSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE4× · 2020–2023 · $53k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- SMST MARYS COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $30k
- COCONGREGATION OF HOLY CROSS UNITED STATES PROVINCE INCone grant, 2021 · $12k
- OUOHIO UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds OHIO DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cushwa William & Anna Jean Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cushwa William & Anna Jean Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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