· Public charity
Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund Inc
To award need-based scholarships for children to attend private schools or be homeschooled for grades kindergarten through the eighth grade.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $150,057 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $345,825 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $195,768 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $34,648 |
| WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $30,446 |
| STATELINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $27,871 |
| TEMPLE CHRISTIAN | $20,398 |
| OTTAWA COUNTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $16,269 |
| MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $8,038 |
| MANSFIELD CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $6,700 |
| TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $5,687 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +113% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 30 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- MCMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +89%
- BGBOWLING GREEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY6× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +166%
- TCTEMPLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL6× · 2018–2023 · $67k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- MSMASJID SAAD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SPST PAUL LUTHERANone grant, 2022 · $6k
- MSMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF BOWLING GREENone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +12%
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 mission of maryville christian school is to partner with christian parents by providing an academically excellent, biblically-based education,producing students with distinctive christian character.
Quality education from a biblical perspective.
Equipping minds and hearts to love, learn, and lead for Christ.
Education of students from preschool to 12th grade
Education and instruction for grades k-6th
Se schedule o classical christian academy
To cultivate a stimulating environment in partnership with the home and local church. Developing the whole student through the Bible and Jesus Christ centered relationships to prepare the student to serve God in the community and the world.
The private school offers a complete curriculm from pre-school to grade 12 in a christian environment. the school is affilitated with the church which is located on the same property. the school is operated on church owned property.
Christian education, pre-k through 12th grade
Christian School grades k-8
Proividing a classical christian academy for school-age children for the youth of brown county and surrounding counties
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Christian Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Francis Desales. 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 80 years old; the field is 21. 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 — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
10 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. 10 of the 45 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 MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOWLING GREEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CELERYVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIET ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF BOWLING GREEN ↗
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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Ohio Scholarship Fund · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund Inc 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.
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.