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OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE
We collaborate with members in government, industry and academia to accelerate ohio's aerospace workforce development through a global network of connections, educational programs, and cutting-edge information.
$1.8M
Granted FY2023
15
Grants
1
Communities
$72k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2023 · 15 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $183k
$26,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$72,000
- UNIVERSITY OF AKRON$56,500
- KENT STATE UNIVERSITY$54,000
- OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY THE$28,500
- CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY$28,000
- YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY$28,000
- MIAMI UNIVERSITY$27,500
- OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY$26,300
- CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY$17,000
- BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY$15,000
- CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY$13,000
- UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON$13,000
- WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY$13,000
- UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO$11,000
- MARIETTA COLLEGE$7,500
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 13%. 56% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 18 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
18
3
Total granted
$2.6M
$15k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+16%
+14%
Still filing today
39%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationArts & CultureOther
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
- ONOHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2023 · $198k · revenue +16%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON6× · 2018–2023 · $153k · revenue +19%
- CUCEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2023 · $78k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- LCLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $8k
- IIISPACE INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +14%
- CSCOLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Ohio Wesleyan University
Owu is one of the nation's premier small liberal arts colleges, boasting strong relationships between students and faculty and opportunities that prepare students for service and leadership.
Education
2
University of Northwestern Ohio
The university of northwestern ohio is an entrepreneurial, not-for-profit institution of higher learning, preparing students for careers and productive citizenship.
Education
3
Washington University
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Education
4
Tiffin University
Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.
Education
5
Hiram College
The mission of hiram college is to foster intellectual excellence and social responsibility enabling our students to thrive in their chosen careers, flourish in life and face the urgent challenges of our times.
Education
6
Oberlin College
Core values derived from our mission include: - Educational Excellence: The College of Arts and Sciences and Conservatory of Music are committed to educating students to achieve academic and musical excellence in an environment where…
Education
7
The University of Findlay
The mission of The University of Findlay is to equip our students for meaningful lives and productive careers.
Education
8
Midwestern University
Midwestern university dedicates the institution and its resources to the highest standards of academic excellence to meet the educational needs of the health care community.
Education
9
The College of Wooster
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community.
Education
10
Widener University
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Education
11
William Woods University
William woods university promotes a student-centered learning environment valuing inclusion, creativity, and intellectual inquiry. focused on professions-oriented education, we prepare learners for success.
Education
12
Union University
Union University provides Christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Northern University and the most unlike its peers is Baldwin Wallace 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,963,006Education$646,911Arts & Culture$5,000
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.
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.
Ascendium Education Solutions IncWI20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Prevention Action Alliance · The Ohio Foundation Of · Community Foundations Inc · American Chemical Society · The Dayton Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · National Collegiate Investors &
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 organisation OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 310604719 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Ohio Aerospace Institute?
Find your warmest path to Ohio Aerospace Institute through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines