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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.

$346k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
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 2023.

Education$1.8MReligion$5k
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $150,057, the rows itemized in this filing. The $345,825 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $195,768 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
$20,398
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ST FRANCIS DESALE'S: $5k → 18%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 36 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +113% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
8

Total granted

$1.8M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+113%
+12%

Still filing today

17%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MC
    MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +89%
  • BG
    BOWLING GREEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +166%
  • TC
    TEMPLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    6× · 2018–2023 · $67k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • MS
    MASJID SAAD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SP
    ST PAUL LUTHERAN
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • MS
    MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF BOWLING GREEN
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +12%
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
Maryville Christian School

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.

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2
Conway Christian School

Quality education from a biblical perspective.

Education
3
Muskegon Christian School

Equipping minds and hearts to love, learn, and lead for Christ.

Education
4
Kentucky Christian School Inc

Education of students from preschool to 12th grade

—
5
Tipton Christian School

Education and instruction for grades k-6th

Education
6
Classical Christian Academy Inc

Se schedule o classical christian academy

Education
7
Trinity Christian High School

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.

Education
8
Westbury Christian School

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.

Education
9
Trinity Christian Academy Inc

Christian education, pre-k through 12th grade

Education
10
Valley Christian Academy Inc

Christian School grades k-8

Education
11
Brown County Christian Academy

Proividing a classical christian academy for school-age children for the youth of brown county and surrounding counties

Education
12
Christian Heritage School

Education

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Christian Schools Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST APOSTOLIC CHURCH: $201,749 · OtherFIRST APOSTOLIC CHURCHSTATELINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $121,532 · OtherSTATELINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLST JOHN THE EVANGELIST PARISH: $117,968 · OtherST JOHN THE EVANGELIST PARISHCHRIST THE KING: $86,966 · OtherMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $86,456 · OtherLITTLE FLOWER OF JESUS PARISH: $68,795 · OtherMONCLOVA ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH: $60,372 · OtherTOLEDO SAINT JOAN OF ARC PARISH: $59,144 · OtherST PATRICK'S OF HEATHERDOWNS: $56,652 · Other+30 more: $773,707 · Other+30 moreBOWLING GREEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $74,512 · EducationBOWLING GREE…TEMPLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $66,694 · EducationTEMPLE CHRIS…MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $36,301 · EducationMAUMEE VALLE…TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $12,093 · EducationTRINITY CHRI…+1 more: $6,032 · EducationST FRANCIS DESALES: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,633,341Education$195,632Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $86,456 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBOWLING GREEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $74,512 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTEMPLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $66,694 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $52,195 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $36,301 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCELERYVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIET: $14,038 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $12,093 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5,108 over 1y, 0.6% 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 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 ↗

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.

Toledo Community Foundation IncOH22.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund Inc. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 45 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $388k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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