· Public charity
Ohio Scholarship Fund
Creates partnerships to provide the resources necessary to help ohio families access the educational options which work best for their children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $1,622,634 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,749,866 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $127,232 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $414k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $762k
- $250k+1 grant · $386k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND | $385,999 |
| COLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY | $232,099 |
| FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL | $223,198 |
| GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL | $101,924 |
| CINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $70,753 |
| BRIDGEWAY ACADEMY | $69,220 |
| COLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $65,012 |
| CARDINAL STRITCH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL & ACADEMY | $37,579 |
| OHR TORAH CINCINNATI | $34,400 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $30,955 |
| COMMUNITY MONTESSORI | $29,300 |
| PADRE PIO ACADEMY | $29,115 |
| STS PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $28,890 |
| CHAVIVA HIGH SCHOOL | $26,590 |
| CANTON CENTRAL CATHOLIC | $25,104 |
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.
26 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- FMFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS3× · 2022–2024 · $645k · revenue +38%
- CTCOLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY3× · 2022–2024 · $589k · revenue +44%
- GSGROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $267k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- OVOHIO VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $19k
- NDNOTRE DAME ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $9k
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.
Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…
The columbus jewish day school operates an elementary school with students in kindergarten through fifth grade. the school integrates judaic studies into its curriculum, which includes, in addition to core classes, music, art, computer and…
Ohr chadash academy (oca) is a torah-driven orthodox jewish day schoolfor boys and girls in early childhood through 8th grade, where thedivine spark and unique worth of each individual are celebrated. weemphasize the inherent kedusha of…
Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…
Jcs is a parent participation elementary school, collaboratively governed by parents and teachers designed to foster a lifelong love of learning and meaningful connection to hashem.
The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)
The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.
In order to achieve the vision and mission, torah academy of milwaukee will do the following: teach young women mitzvos with ideals and aspiration of torah which enhance their lives; foster an environment that encourages jewish families to…
At Gesher Jewish Day School we inspire our students to be passionate about learning, practice justice, kindness and respect, aspire to a life guided by Jewish values, torah and community.
Or hachaim academy is a jewish religious school currently serving children from pre-school to 8th grade. in addition to jewish religious training, the school follows the educational curriculum as required by the state of california. the…
To instill in its students a personal love for and commitment tohashem, the study and practice of torah, halacha, and jewish values asa way of life, and a love for the state of israel and the jewishpeople.
Cjds creates for its students a standard of excellence in both jewish and general studies. students develop a passion for learning and a strong sense of themselves as jews and as human beings. students are inspired to develop a strong…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Romero Academy and the most unlike its peers is Canton Montessori Association Dba Canton Montessori School. 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 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 41 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 HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA DERECH HATORAH ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHAVIVA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Padre Pio Academy ↗
- Who funds ROSS COUNTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY BIBLE ACADEMY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mesivta of Cleveland DBA Yeshivas Toras ↗
- Who funds RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELSHE INC ↗
- Who funds CANTON MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION DBA CANTON MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Waldorf School ↗
- Who funds ROMERO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · The Kline Family Foundation · Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund Inc · Irving I Stone Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Scholarship Fund 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.
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