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Gay Su Pinnell Educ Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$801,237
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY$801,237
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
NM
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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

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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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Foundation; 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 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. 11 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗

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.

Columbus FoundationThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gay Su Pinnell Educ Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gay Su Pinnell Educ Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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