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Ohio Christian Education Network Scholarship Granting Organization

The ohio christian education network (ocen) protects the religious liberty of christian schools and ensures every ohio family has access to a gospel-centered education.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$320k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0162% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2025.

Education$3.3MReligion$8kOther$2.0M
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $692k
  • $250k+1 grant · $320k
$64,389
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY$320,400
WORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$147,500
CINCINNATI HILLS CHRISTIAN ACADMENY$130,000
THE GARDEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$79,360
CHARIS CLASSICAL ACADEMY$71,289
GROVE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$70,750
ST PEREGRINE ACADEMY$66,416
CHAPEL HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$64,389
MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$62,480
MADISON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$38,700
CHESS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$28,250
WEAVER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC$27,988
ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL$26,400
CANTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$18,975
HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL$15,729
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GENOA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $64k → 5%AGAPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $37k → 6%MEDINA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $35k → 7%SHEKINAH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $52k → 10%KINGSWAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $36k → 10%GRANVILLE CRISTIAN ACADEMY: $60k → 10%CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $275k → 13%CINCINNATI CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $59k → 13%CALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $48k → 13%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $65k → 13%MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $69k → 15%CINCINNATI HILLS CHRISTIAN ACADMENY: $259k → 16%THE GARDEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $79k → 17%VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $76k → 19%CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $133k → 13%CINCINNATI CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $50k → 13%BOWLING GREEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $46k → 13%MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $62k → 15%CINCINNATI HILLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $144k → 16%VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $62k → 19%CHARIS CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $71k → 6%HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $320k → 6%CHAPEL HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $64k → 13%LAKE CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $82k → 13%WORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $148k → 15%MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $38k → 15%CINCINNATI HILLS CHRISTIAN ACADMENY: $130k → 16%DELAWARE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $78k → 5%HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $154k → 6%LAKE CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $64k → 13%WORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $135k → 15%MIAMI VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $164k → 16%HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $102k → 6%ST PEREGRINE ACADEMY: $69k → 13%WORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50k → 15%MIAMI VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $107k → 16%WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $126k → 17%ST PEREGRINE ACADEMY: $66k → 13%WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $62k → 17%ST PEREGRINE ACADEMY: $57k → 13%TREE OF LIFE: $195k → 15%CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $66k → 13%TREE OF LIFE: $158k → 15%CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $38k → 13%OPEN DOOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $141k → 15%GROVE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $71k → 15%GROVE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $53k → 15%MADISON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $39k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.0M · 35 repeat orgs$395k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
13

Total granted

$5.0M
$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+4%

Still filing today

71%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationReligionOther

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

  • HC
    HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $576k · revenue +144%
  • CH
    Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy
    3× · 2023–2025 · $532k · revenue +2%
  • CV
    CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $408k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • DC
    DELAWARE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $78k
  • GC
    GENOA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $64k
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF SAINT PIUS X CLEVELAND OHIO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $57k

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.

1
Victory Christian Academy

The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…

Education
2
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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3
Heritage Classical Christian Academy

Aiding parents in their responsibility to educate their children so that they may love the lord their god with all their heart, all their soul, all their mind and all their strength.

Education
4
Kings Classical Academy

Provide classroom instruction and educational services to K-12 students

Education
5
The Christian Academy

The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.

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6
Covenant Christian School

Covenant Christian School exist to partner with Christian parents in training their children: to provide quality Christ-centered academic education for children, and to actively promote service in the local church, community and nation.

Education
7
Cornerstone Christian School

The school provides a biblically sound education program of high academic standards in a loving environment that meets the need of the whole child: spiritually, academically, physically, and socially.

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8
Ch Friend School

To educate all students to the highest levels of academic achievement in a Christ-centered environment. To provide student-centered educational programs that challenge all students to perform at their highest potential. To prepare all…

Education
9
Christian Schools Inc

Education - private christian school grades k-12

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10
Holy City Christian Academy

Educational programs

Education
11
Kentucky Christian School Inc

Education of students from preschool to 12th grade

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12
Grace Christian Academy St Louis

The mission of Grace Christian Academy is to first serve families and children by giving them a Biblically-based education centered on a growing relationship with Jesus Christ, imparting a Christian world view and emphasizing Godly…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Granville Christian Academy and the most unlike its peers is Weaver Child Development Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%11%<5yr13%5%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr15%37%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr19%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%3%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr15%44%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr19%19%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
12%
4,718/38,780

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
25/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY — $576,388 · EducationHERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMYCincinnati Hills Christian Academy — $532,387 · EducationCincinnati Hills Christian AcademyCUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $408,145 · EducationCUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMYMIAMI VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $270,948 · EducationMIAMI VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMYWESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $188,065 · EducationWESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMYLAKE CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $146,390 · EducationValley Christian Academy Inc — $138,459 · EducationCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $126,436 · Education+18 more — $935,118 · Education+18 moreTREE OF LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $353,402 · OtherTREE OF LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSWORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $332,194 · OtherWORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INCMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $169,705 · OtherMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLGAHANNA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $149,859 · OtherGAHANNA CHRISTIAN ACADEMYST PEREGRINE ACADEMY — $135,616 · OtherST PEREGRINE ACADEMYGROVE CITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — $131,680 · OtherGROVE CITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENECHARIS CLASSICAL ACADEMY — $105,189 · OtherTHE GARDEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $103,055 · OtherDELAWARE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $78,369 · OtherCALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $74,795 · Other+14 more — $405,526 · Other+14 moreFAITH LIFE CHURCH — $8,050 · Religion
Education$3,322,336Other$2,039,390Religion$8,050

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY — $576,388 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCincinnati Hills Christian Academy — $532,387 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $408,145 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMIAMI VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $270,948 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $188,065 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $169,705 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGAHANNA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $149,859 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetLAKE CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $146,390 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetValley Christian Academy Inc — $138,459 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $126,436 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCINCINNATI CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $108,530 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHAPEL HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $92,289 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGRANVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $92,205 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOPEN DOOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $81,051 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS OF OHIO INC — $76,486 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGROVEPORT MADISON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $75,138 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOWLING GREEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $72,090 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNorthstar Classical School Inc — $58,100 over 2y, 12% of budgetKINGSWAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $54,955 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWEAVER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $53,628 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetAGAPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $44,222 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNORTHSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $42,675 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHESS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $35,750 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWestside Christian School — $31,299 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $24,400 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTEMPLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $19,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAMETOWN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $14,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCrown Preparatory Academy — $10,133 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN FAITH ACADEMY — $8,525 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $5,730 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

In His Steps Foundati…Crossroads FoundationColumbus FoundationOhio Child Care Resou…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Renaissance Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for Good
In His Steps FoundationOH25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: In His Steps Foundation · Crossroads Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

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 Christian Education Network Scholarship Granting Organization 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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
    14report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ohio Christian Education Network Scholarship Granting Organization?

    Find your warmest path to Ohio Christian Education Network Scholarship Granting Organization through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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