· Public charity
I Know I Can
Ikic inspires and equips central ohio students with the knowledge, resources, and support needed to achieve their dreams through postsecondary education and career readiness.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $1,993,005 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,086,063 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $93,058 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $492k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $504k
- $250k+2 grants · $934k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $662,638 |
| COLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $271,212 |
| OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY | $123,781 |
| CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY | $72,596 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $69,318 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - NEWARK | $69,000 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $61,704 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $56,071 |
| CAPITAL UNIVERSITY | $51,200 |
| OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $47,910 |
| OHIO DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY | $42,314 |
| KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY | $42,250 |
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY | $42,000 |
| WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY | $37,247 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY | $35,149 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 17 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $596k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +36%
- CSColumbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +609%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $361k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- MCMOREHOUSE COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +49%
- ECEarlham College Incone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -10%
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +63%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashland University and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 70 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 73 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Columbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Otterbein University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wright State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Bowling Green State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
- Who funds Tiffin University ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds MOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE OF NURSING ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Dayton Foundation · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Community Foundations Inc · Ohio Aerospace Institute · Prevention Action Alliance · Ingram-White Castle 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 I Know I Can 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 0% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 0% of income from government
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.