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Ohio Aerospace Institute

The primary tax-exempt purpose is to further human scientific and engineering knowledge in a broad array of aerospace related disciplines through investigational and developmental research; to build ohio's aerospace economy through research and technology, education and training, and collaboration and information exchange. To further the…

$1.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Itemized grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$492k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$28,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$53,950
Organizations funded a year
15 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ohio Aerospace Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$492k0%
FY202416$653k0%
FY202315$410k0%
FY202217$619k0%
FY202119$698k11%
FY202017$221k0%
FY201918$290k0%
FY201818$376k17%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.5MScience & Tech$756k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Cincinnati$433,6809n/a
Ohio State University The$408,9338n/a
The University of Akron$402,5079n/a
Kent State University$388,8639n/a
Cleveland State University$377,2789n/a
Ohio Northern University$301,41090%
Miami University$241,8909n/a
University of Dayton$226,67090%
Wright State University$216,6178n/a
University of Toledo$159,0508n/a
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All grantees of Ohio Aerospace Institute by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Cincinnati$433,6809n/a
Ohio State University The$408,9338n/a
The University of Akron$402,5079n/a
Kent State University$388,8639n/a
Cleveland State University$377,2789n/a
Ohio Northern University$301,41090%
Miami University$241,8909n/a
University of Dayton$226,67090%
Wright State University$216,6178n/a
University of Toledo$159,0508n/a
Central State University$147,8009n/a
Baldwin Wallace University$132,40080%
Cedarville University$127,53390%
Youngstown State University$126,3869n/a
Ohio University$113,5175n/a
Wilberforce University Wilberforce University$100,61090%
Marietta College$96,55090%
Case Western Reserve University$60,50860%
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$47,8801n/a
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College Foundation$45,18511%
Ohio State University Research Foundation$31,33810%
Lakeland Community College$15,0001n/a
Sinclair Community College$9,5001n/a
Lorain County Community College$8,0001n/a
Ispace Inc$5,0001n/a
Cincinnati Observatory Center$5,00011%
Columbus State Community College$2,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ohio Aerospace Institute supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOhio Northern University: $301,410 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $226,670 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University: $132,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $127,533 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWilberforce University Wilberforce University: $100,610 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMarietta College: $96,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $60,508 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati State Technical and Community College Foundation: $45,185 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOhio State University Research Foundation: $31,338 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCincinnati Observatory Center: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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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.

Ascendium Education Solutions IncWI21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Columbus Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · I Know I Can · Prevention Action Alliance · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Community Foundations Inc · National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc · American Chemical Society

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.

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About Ohio Aerospace Institute

How much does Ohio Aerospace Institute give?
Ohio Aerospace Institute reported 18 itemized grants totaling $491,650, out of $1,945,945 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ohio Aerospace Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (82%), Science & Tech (18%).
Who are Ohio Aerospace Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Cincinnati ($434k), Ohio State University The ($409k), The University of Akron ($403k).
Does Ohio Aerospace Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ohio Aerospace Institute?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ascendium Education Solutions Inc, Columbus Foundation, Folds of Honor Foundation.
Where is Ohio Aerospace Institute based?
Ohio Aerospace Institute is based in OH.

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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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