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Dale E & Bernice E Mansperger Foundation Inc

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.

$84k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of DALE E & BERNICE E MANSPERGER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$1,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$20,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$8,000
OTTERBEIN MARBLEHEAD SENIOR LIFE$3,000
LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BSA$2,500
EUCLID PUBLIC LIBRARY$2,250
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$2,000
EUCLID HUNGER CENTER$2,000
HOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF N EAST OH$1,500
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,500
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$1,500
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WASHINGTON CROSSING COUNCIL BSA: $2k → 6%METHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCH: $8k → 5%HOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS: $2k → 9%OTTERBEIN MARBLEHEAD SENIOR LIFE: $3k → 10%ASHLAND CHRIST UTD METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 11%GIRL SCOUTS OF N EAST OH: $2k → 13%MUSKINGUM VALLEY COUNCIL BSA: $3k → 14%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $8k → 19%METHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCH: $5k → 5%HOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS: $2k → 9%OTTERBEIN MARBLEHEAD SENIOR LIFE: $2k → 10%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BSA: $8k → 17%OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%METHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCH: $5k → 5%HOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS: $2k → 9%OTTERBEIN MARBLEHEAD SENIOR LIFE: $2k → 10%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BSA: $8k → 17%OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%METHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCH: $5k → 5%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BSA: $3k → 17%OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%METHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCH: $5k → 5%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%METHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCH: $5k → 5%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%METHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCH: $5k → 5%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%SIMON KENTON COUNCIL BSA: $3k → 15%EAST SHORE CHURCH UNITED METHODIST: $4k → 17%EAST SHORE CHURCH UNITED METHODIST: $4k → 17%EUCLID PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
MD
TN
GA
FL

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$395k · 31 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
15

Total granted

$395k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+1%

Still filing today

32%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +6%
  • The Ohio University Foundation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $34k · revenue +119%
  • University of Illinois Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • SK
    SIMON KENTON COUNCIL BSA
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • MV
    MUSKINGUM VALLEY COUNCIL BSA
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • WC
    WASHINGTON CROSSING COUNCIL BSA
    one grant, 2021 · $2k

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
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

2
Oberlin College

Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…

Education
3
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
4
Ohio Bankers League

Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.

Community Improvement
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
Shawnee State University Foundation

The shawnee state university foundation (ssuf) was created as a 501(c)(3) organization with the mission of making friends and creating funds and support for shawnee state university.

Education
7
The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges

To solicit contributions from the corporate community and private foundations on behalf of 33 member-college/universities that serve nearly 80,000 students. members are nonprofit, privately controlled, 4-year colleges/universities…

Education
8
The University of Toledo Foundation

The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…

Education
9
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

10
Ohio Wesleyan University

See schedule oohio wesleyan's charter provides that "the university is forever to be conducted on the most liberal principles, accessible to all religious denominations, and designed for the benefit of our citizens in general." in the…

Education
11
Ohio Christian University

Ohio christian university (ocu) is committed to offering a complete education that develops students intellectually, professionally, and spiritually. (continued on schedule o)ocu offers degree programs designed to equip students to become…

Education
12
Ohio Northern University

Ohio northern's purpose is to help students develop into self reliant, mature individuals open to the contemporary world, active in learning and sensitive to higher values.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ohio University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Henn. 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

15 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. 15 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $38,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAKE ERIE COUNCIL BSA — $31,000 · OtherLAKE ERIE COUNCIL BSAGIRL SCOUTS OF N EAST OH — $13,500 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF N EAST OHOTTERBEIN MARBLEHEAD SENIOR LIFE — $12,250 · OtherOTTERBEIN MARBLEHEAD SENIOR LIFEEUCLID PUBLIC LIBRARY — $12,250 · OtherEUCLID PUBLIC LIBRARYEAST SHORE CHURCH UNITED METHODIST — $10,400 · OtherHOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS — $10,000 · OtherEUCLID HUNGER CENTER — $7,500 · OtherWVIZ — $7,500 · Other+26 more — $55,715 · Other+26 moreOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONThe Ohio University Foundation — $34,000 · EducationThe Ohio University FoundationUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $32,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation+3 more — $4,750 · EducationTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $5,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,500 · HealthGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $5,500 · Food & NutritionFriends of the Henn — $2,250 · Arts & CultureSINGERS CLUB — $500 · Arts & CultureSOUTHEASTERN OHIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $250 · Arts & CultureWEST CREEK CONSERVANCY — $2,250 · EnvironmentIDEASTREAM — $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$198,115Education$195,750Health$11,000Food & Nutrition$5,500Arts & Culture$3,000Environment$2,250Youth Development$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation — $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEST CREEK CONSERVANCY — $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Henn — $2,250 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetMETHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL IN OHIO — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOtterbein University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDEASTREAM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSINGERS CLUB — $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN OHIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $250 over 1y, 0.6% 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 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Ohio University Foundation
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds WEST CREEK CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds Friends of the Henn
  • Who funds METHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL IN OHIO
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Otterbein University
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organization Dale E & Bernice E Mansperger Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 49 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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