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New Orphan Asylum Scholarship Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$112k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$872kHealth$2k
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$3,042
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$17,490
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$12,169
ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY$8,751
FISK UNIVERSITY$6,085
MIAMI UNIVERSITY$6,085
XAVIER UNIVERSITY$6,085
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY$4,945
NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY$4,945
ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY$3,042
WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY$3,042
DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY$3,042
OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY$3,042
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$3,042
MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY$3,042
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$3,042
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 18%FISK UNIVERSITY: $11k → 14%COLLEGE OF COASTAL GEORGIA: $4k → 14%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $4k → 18%WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $8k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $30k → 16%WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 18%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $6k → 8%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY: $9k → 11%FISK UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $4k → 18%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $25k → 16%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $22k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $19k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $18k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $17k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $13k → 16%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $32k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $9k → 16%TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 14%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 14%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 14%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%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

WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$820k · 45 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
17

Total granted

$820k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+34%

Still filing today

42%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +24%
  • FU
    FISK UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +61%
  • MS
    MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI BLUE ASH
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +24%
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
Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
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
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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4
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
5
Walsh University Inc

Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…

Education
6
DePauw University

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…

Education
7
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
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
10
Furman University

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.

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muskingum University; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

34 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. 34 of the 71 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
27/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $152,899 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATITENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $78,881 · OtherTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITYNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $47,780 · OtherNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITYALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY: $38,703 · OtherALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITYKENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $35,572 · OtherKENT STATE UNIVERSITYNORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $33,305 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $32,780 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $26,987 · Other+30 more: $194,832 · Other+30 moreXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $45,853 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITYFISK UNIVERSITY: $28,129 · EducationFISK UNIVERSITYMOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY: $14,250 · EducationMOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITYTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $11,587 · EducationGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $10,745 · EducationCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $9,263 · EducationKettering University: $9,262 · EducationUniversity of Dayton: $9,180 · EducationMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $8,800 · EducationTuskegee University: $7,886 · Education+23 more: $77,677 · Education+23 more
Other$641,739Education$232,632

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 budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $45,853 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY: $28,129 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY: $14,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $11,587 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $10,745 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $9,263 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKettering University: $9,262 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $9,180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $8,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $7,886 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Indianapolis: $7,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $6,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC: $6,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $6,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY: $4,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $4,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Northern University: $4,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College Chicago: $4,123 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOtterbein University: $3,042 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $3,042 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $2,663 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $2,200 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilmington College: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENNETT COLLEGE: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTiffin University: $1,903 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,903 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,562 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $1,139 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $1,100 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 XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FISK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Kettering University ↗
  • Who funds University of Dayton ↗
  • Who funds MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
  • Who funds University of Indianapolis ↗
  • Who funds Spelman College ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗
  • Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗

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.

The Austin E Knowlton…Council of Independen…Columbus FoundationThe Ohio Foundation o…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Greater Cincinnat…Ibm International Fou…Duke Energy FoundationA K Stephenson Fdn Ch…I Know I CanPeoples Bank Foundati…National Collegiate A…
The Austin E Knowlton Foundation IncOH17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Austin E Knowlton Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Columbus Foundation · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · A K Stephenson Fdn Char Tr Agy · I Know I Can · Peoples Bank Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association

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 New Orphan Asylum Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Orphan Asylum Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to New Orphan Asylum Scholarship Foundation?

Find your warmest path to New Orphan Asylum Scholarship 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 71 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home