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Oliver W Storer Scholarship Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$245k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$1.7MFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,013
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
Individual grant recipient$7,013
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 (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%MARANATHA BAPTIST BIBLE COLLEGE: $13k → 8%Wesleyan University: $7k → 7%TRINE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 9%ANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 15%Butler University: $7k → 16%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $26k → 18%BALL STATE UNIVERSITY: $66k → 19%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $46k → 19%TAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON: $7k → 14%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $7k → 20%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WI
MI
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
AL

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 71 repeat orgs$361k to everyone else

71 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
27

Total granted

$1.5M
$305k

Still filing today

0%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2020–2023 · $29k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2024 · $29k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2020–2023 · $29k

Funded once

  • BS
    BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $66k
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $46k
  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2018 · $26k

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
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
2
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
6
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
7
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
8
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
9
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
10
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
11
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Taylor University and the most unlike its peers is Wesleyan 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 107 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BALL STATE UNIVERSITY — $66,055 · Other+98 more — $1,758,020 · Other+98 moreANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC — $19,750 · EducationTaylor University — $9,683 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY — $6,583 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $6,583 · EducationTrine University — $6,583 · EducationUniversity of Dayton — $6,583 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $6,583 · EducationButler University — $6,583 · Education
Other$1,824,075Education$68,931

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC — $19,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTaylor University — $9,683 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY — $6,583 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $6,583 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrine University — $6,583 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton — $6,583 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $6,583 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetButler University — $6,583 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Oliver W Storer Scholarship Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Wesleyan University1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 107 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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