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School Choice Ohio Inc

The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.

$25k
Granted FY2022
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Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192022.

Education$78kHuman Services$45kCivil Rights$25kReligion$20k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO EXCELS$25,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%OHIO EXCELS: $25k → 16%CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%AGUDATH ISRAEL OF OHIO: $25k → 17%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 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.

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Christian Academy Schools Inc

To equip and inspire a new generation of christ-centered leaders.

2
Covenant Christian School

Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…

Education
3
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
4
Summit Classical Christian School

Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…

Education
5
Christian Schools Inc

Education - private christian school grades k-12

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Cincinnati Christian Schools Inc

Cincinnati christian schools, partnering with christian families, provides a bible-centered, quality educational program to equip, train, and disciple students to follow christ and impact culture.

Education
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Heritage Christian School

At heritage christian school, we exist to serve christ by partnering with parents to provide biblically faithful, academically excellent education.

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Axiom Christian Classical School

To provide a comprehensive Christian Classical education to grades 1-12.

Education
9
Christ Church Episcopal School

Cces is a coeducational college preparatory school in the episcopal tradition for primer through grade 12 that nurtures each student's intellectual and spiritual development, personal integrity, sense of community and self-worth, and…

Education
10
Central Iowa Christian School

Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.

Education
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Canterbury Classical School

Provides Private Christian Education from Kindergarten through Grade 12.

Education
12
Hudsonville Christian School

To provide a christian grade school education for those desiring it in hudsonville, mi and surrounding areas.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue and the most unlike its peers is Agudath Israel of Ohio Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 15 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS — $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUSSUPER LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 · OtherSUPER LEARNING CENTERDIOCESE OF YOUNGSTOWN CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION — $10,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF YOUNGSTOWN CATHOLIC CHARITIES C…LIMA CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $10,000 · OtherLIMA CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TOLEDO INC — $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TOLEDO INCMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $5,000 · OtherMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLTOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $5,000 · OtherTOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INCSANDUSKY CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL — $2,500 · OtherOHIO EXCELS — $25,000 · Human ServicesOHIO EXCELSAgudath Israel of Ohio Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesAgudath Israel of Ohio IncCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATIONCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE — $25,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CHRIS…CISE — $10,000 · ReligionEMMANUEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $5,000 · Education
Other$62,500Human Services$60,000Civil Rights$25,000Religion$10,000Education$10,000

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 budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetOHIO EXCELS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAgudath Israel of Ohio Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCISE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMMANUEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 School Choice Ohio Inc 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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 · 0–5%
    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.

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    How do I get to School Choice Ohio Inc?

    Find your warmest path to School Choice Ohio Inc 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 15 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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