· Private foundation
Northwest Ohio Education Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS | $3,000 |
| DISCOVERY INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH THE WORKER | $1,000 |
| MAGIS CENTER | $1,000 |
| AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| RATIO CHRISTI | $500 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MARY MOTHER OF THE EUCHARIST | $500 |
| LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL | $400 |
| THE FELLOWSHIP OF ST JAMES (SALVO) | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 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; $400 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE6× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +44%
- SPST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY6× · 2019–2024 · $6k · revenue +85%
- TATHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- ECEPIPHANY CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $1k
- SMST MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC PARISHone grant, 2020 · $1k
- LFLITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
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.
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.
Conference
How this is measured
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.
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.
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds College of St Joseph the Worker Inc ↗
- Who funds Ratio Christi Inc ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC ANSWERS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSIONARY SISTERS OF MARY IMMACULATE 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.
Open a dossier: Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Northwest Ohio Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Ohio Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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