· Private foundation
Ella Weiss Educational Fund
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $2,450 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,050 |
| MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY | $875 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY ZANESVILLE | $525 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $350 |
| ASHLAND UNIVERSITY | $175 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE | $175 |
| OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY | $175 |
| CENTRAL OHIO TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $175 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FINDLAY | $175 |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $175 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $175 |
| HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY | $175 |
| WALSH UNIVERSITY | $175 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY | $175 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% 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.
31 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ONOhio Northern University5× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +17%
- UOUniversity of Dayton5× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +27%
- OUOtterbein University5× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TOTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERISTYone grant, 2020 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Rooted in our Mercy Catholic liberal arts identity, we educate and inspire diverse learners in an environment where faith and reason flourish together for meaningful lives, dignified work, and leadership in service toward a just and loving…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
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…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
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…
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…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 75 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.
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 · Columbus Foundation · Clapper Scholarship Fund · Verna M Griffee Trust · Shelly Family Foundation · A K Stephenson Fdn Char Tr Agy · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Coshocton Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Ann McConahay Educational Foundation · The Pearce Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ella Weiss Educational Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ella Weiss Educational Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
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