· Public charity
Oberlin College
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership.
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 10 grants below total $256,066 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $111,342,784 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $111,086,718 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oberlin Unitarian Universalist Fell | $63,000 |
| City Of Oberlin | $50,708 |
| Oberlin Early Childhood Center | $38,000 |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $35,000 |
| NATURAL AREAS LAND CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| Hispanic Ministries of Tuscarawas County | $10,600 |
| Village Family Farms Foundation | $10,500 |
| Providing Oberlin with Efficiency Responsibility (POWER) | $10,000 |
| Our Family (Fathers and Mothers Involved in Local Youth) | $6,758 |
| City Fresh | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $479k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $13M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS
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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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +68% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- OCOBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL4× · 2018–2021 · $113k · revenue +301%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY4× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +57%
- POPROVIDING OBERLIN WITH EFFICIENCY RESPONSIBLY4× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue +188% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- SSunboltone grant, 2022 · $16k
- SCSUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATES LTDone grant, 2023 · $16k
REWILDone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +1%
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.
To inspire people to embrace their callings in creation and community by connecting people with nature and faith.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Conserving farmlands, stream corridors, aquifer and watershed protection areas, wildlife habitats, woodlands, scenic vistas and ecologically sensitive areas of environmental, historical and community importance in knox county ohio and…
To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
Supporting the work of and advocating on behalf of all county land reutilization corporations, commonly known as land banks, across ohio. with 61 of ohios 88 counties having land banks, a clear need has emerged for a statewide association…
The organic center's mission is to conduct and convene credible, evidence-based science on the environmental and health effects of organic food and farming and communicate the findings to the public. we will achieve our mission through: -…
To benefit the general public by preserving natural lands and significant habitats, lands suitable for the production of food, timber, or other cultivated or natural products, lands creating scenic vistas for public enjoyment, lands with…
Soil & water conservation
To advocate and educate on behalf of our members to increase the quality and supply of affordable housing in the state of ohio, and to provide our members with current legislative awareness, a forum for voicing legislative and programmatic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Reserve Land Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Hispanic Ministries of Tuscarawas County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 OBERLIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds OBERLIN COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds City Fresh ↗
- Who funds PROVIDING OBERLIN WITH EFFICIENCY RESPONSIBLY ↗
- Who funds FOREST CITY FOOD COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL AREAS LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OUR FAMILY FATHERS AND MOTHERS INVOLVED IN LOCAL YOUTH ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC MINISTRIES OF TUSCARAWAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KENDAL AT OBERLIN ↗
- Who funds OBERLIN HISTORICAL AND IMPROVEMENT ORGANIZATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of Lorain County · The Nord Family Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · 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 Oberlin College 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.