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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
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO EXCELS$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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Christian Academy Schools Inc

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

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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
Shekinah Christian School

Shekinah Christian School aims to be a well-known and preferred educational partner for Christian families and Bible-believing churches within a 30-mile radius of Plain City. Inspire students through programs and relationships to be…

Education
5
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
6
Christian Schools Inc

Education - private christian school grades k-12

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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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8
Axiom Christian Classical School

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

Education
9
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
10
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
11
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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue; 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 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. 9 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUPER LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 · OtherSUPER LEARNING CENTERCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TOLEDO INC: $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TOLEDO INCDIOCESE 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 DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS: $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUSTOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $5,000 · OtherTOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INCMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSANDUSKY 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTOLEDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization School Choice Ohio Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from School Choice Ohio Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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