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Gay Su Pinnell Educ Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$801k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$801k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Philanthropy$4.9MEducation$1.7MArts & Culture$440kHealth$226kInternational$6kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$801,237
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY$801,237
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LESLIE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 12%THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION: $250k → 8%INTERUNIVERALISM INC: $75k → 10%CREA: $30k → 10%THE BROOKE JACKSON FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%QUEENSBURY UNION FREE DIST - READIN: $25k → 10%MONROE 2- ORLEANS BD OF COOP ED: $25k → 14%EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY: $801k → 18%FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY: $300 → 15%CARPE DIEM STRING QUARTET: $700 → 9%PANHELLENIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $3k → 14%HEINEMANN: $25k → 5%LESLIE UNIVERSITY: $31k → 12%CREA (NICARAGUAN ED RESOURCE CTR): $30k → 10%ENMU FOUNDATION: $160k → 18%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%PANHELLENIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1k → 14%HEINEMANN: $2k → 5%CREA: $30k → 10%PORTALES MUN SCHOOLS: $100k → 18%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $660 → 15%PANHELLENIC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $100 → 14%ENMU FOUNDATION: $80k → 18%COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUND: $250k → 15%EASTERN NM UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $70k → 18%COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $150k → 15%PORTALES MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS: $35k → 18%COLUMBUS SYMPHONY: $140k → 15%PORTALES MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS: $20k → 18%COLUMBUS SYMPHONY: $102k → 15%COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUND: $50k → 15%COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOLS: $30k → 15%NAMI OHIO: $25k → 15%COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12k → 15%COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2k → 15%RULING OUR EXPERIENCES: $1k → 15%RULING OUR EXPERIENCES: $500 → 15%READING RECOVERY COUNCIL OF NA: $100k → 15%READING RECOVERY COUNCIL: $51k → 15%READING RECOVERY COUNCIL: $50k → 15%CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $200 → 15%COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $4.5M → 15%COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $60k → 15%THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%CITY YEAR COLUMBUS: $100 → 15%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

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
NM

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$893k · 10 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$893k
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+69%

Still filing today

30%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $801k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22
EducationArts & CultureInternationalYouth 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $242k
  • EF
    ENMU FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $240k
  • LU
    LESLIE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $181k

Funded once

  • CM
    COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue -47%
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
  • CS
    COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $164k · revenue +314%

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.

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The Columbus Academy

The columbus academy aspires to be an inclusive community where all differences consistent with the mission of the school are valued, respected, and integrated into the education process.

Education
2
Columbus State University Foundation Inc

The Columbus State University Foundation supports educational excellence and the expansion of educational opportunities at Columbus State University. The Foundation attracts, receives, invests, manages, and expends gifts and other…

Education
3
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
4
Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation

The mission of the organization is to connect students residing in greater cincinnati with post-high school scholarship opportunities to pursue their educational goals

5
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
6
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
7
Thomas University

Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.

Education
8
Niagara University

Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives through programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.

Education
9
Carleton University

Carleton university provides post secondary education

10
Public Library of Science

Please see schedule o for complete description of the organization's mission.

Science & Tech
11
Colgate University

Colgate university's mission is to provide a demanding, expansive educational experience to a select group of diverse, talented, intellectually sophisticated students who are capable of challenging themselves, their peers and their…

Education
12
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hands Together Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 30 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $4,603,633 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATIONEASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY — $801,237 · OtherEASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITYTHE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherTHE CARNEGIE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $242,046 · OtherIndividual grant recipientENMU FOUNDATION — $240,000 · OtherENMU FOUNDATIONLESLIE UNIVERSITY — $181,250 · OtherLESLIE UNIVERSITYREADING RECOVERY COUNCIL — $101,000 · OtherPORTALES MUN SCHOOLS — $100,000 · OtherREADING RECOVERY COUNCIL OF NA — $100,000 · Other+14 more — $395,501 · Other+14 moreCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationNICARAGUAN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER — $30,000 · Education+2 more — $4,400 · EducationCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $164,000 · Arts & CultureHands Together Inc — $6,000 · InternationalRULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC — $1,500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$4,603,633Other$2,411,034Education$334,400Arts & Culture$164,000International$6,000Youth Development$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $4,603,633 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $164,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNICARAGUAN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetNAMI OHIO — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHands Together Inc — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKE JACKMAN FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $100 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 COLUMBUS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
  • Who funds NICARAGUAN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER
  • Who funds NAMI OHIO
  • Who funds Hands Together Inc
  • Who funds Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation
  • Who funds RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC
  • Who funds THE BROOKE JACKMAN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Columbus FoundationOH16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Gay Su Pinnell Educ Foundation 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gay Su Pinnell Educ Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gay Su Pinnell Educ Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 30 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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