· Private foundation
Oscar & Hildegard Thiele Scholarship Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,500 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| ASHLAND UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO | $1,000 |
| LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $1,000 |
| OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $1,000 |
| COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FINDLAY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
69 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BWBaldwin Wallace University4× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +11%
- ONOhio Northern University4× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +18%
THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
- LELAKE ERIE COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +10%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 214 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
- Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds HIRAM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The University of Findlay ↗
- Who funds Trine University ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Marietta College ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Oscar & Hildegard Thiele Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oscar & Hildegard Thiele Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Oscar & Hildegard Thiele Scholarship Fund?
Find your warmest path to Oscar & Hildegard Thiele Scholarship Fund 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.
Play a game based on Oscar & Hildegard Thiele Scholarship’s filings →