· Public charity
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.
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 18 grants below total $491,650 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,945,945 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,454,295 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 $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $414k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $53,950 |
| BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY | $42,900 |
| OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY | $40,900 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $40,400 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $36,900 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $36,900 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $30,900 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $29,550 |
| WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY | $28,500 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,500 |
| MARIETTA COLLEGE | $24,550 |
| CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY | $24,200 |
| CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY | $21,500 |
| WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY | $18,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO | $13,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% of your 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 +38% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ONOhio Northern University9× · 2017–2025 · $301k · revenue +27%
- UOUniversity of Dayton9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +38%
- BWBaldwin Wallace University8× · 2018–2025 · $132k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CCCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue +24%
- CSCINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +35%
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue -97%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Northern University and the most unlike its peers is Ohio State University Research Foundation. 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 27 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 Ohio Northern University ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Marietta College ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISPACE INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER ↗
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: 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
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 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.
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.