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· Public charity
The College of Wooster
The College of Wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community.
$75M
Granted FY2023
4
Grants
4
Communities
$521k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Arts & Culture$539kEducation$207kInternational$57kYouth Development$9kHuman Services$5kOther$25k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
performed partpart grant-funded
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $521k
$200,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$658M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Shift Design Inc$520,940
- Northeastern University$200,000
- Ashesi University Foundation$15,000
- Great Decisions of Wayne County Inc$6,000
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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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The College of Wooster
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community.
Education
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University of Northwestern Ohio
The university of northwestern ohio is an entrepreneurial, not-for-profit institution of higher learning, preparing students for careers and productive citizenship.
Education
3
Widener University
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Education
4
Washington University
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Education
5
Ohio Wesleyan University
Owu is one of the nation's premier small liberal arts colleges, boasting strong relationships between students and faculty and opportunities that prepare students for service and leadership.
Education
6
Westminster University
Offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs.
Education
7
Oberlin College
Core values derived from our mission include: - Educational Excellence: The College of Arts and Sciences and Conservatory of Music are committed to educating students to achieve academic and musical excellence in an environment where…
Education
8
Western New England University
See Schedule O Statement for Part III, Line 1 that also applies to Part I, Line 1
Education
9
Whitworth University
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars. recognized as one of the top regional colleges and…
Education
10
Cleveland State University
The CSUF is organized primarily to engage in activities to provide support and services to CSU.
Education
11
New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
12
Norwich University
Norwich's mission is to give our youth an education that shall be american in its character.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashesi University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Northeastern University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$539,090Education$207,000International$57,126Other$25,000Youth Development$8,500Human Services$5,453
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 Shift Design Inc ↗
- Who funds Northeastern University ↗
- Who funds Ashesi University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Great Decisions of Wayne County Inc ↗
- Who funds Citizen X Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Wooster Inc ↗
- Who funds The Board of Trustees for the Leland Stanford Junior University ↗
- Who funds People to People Ministries ↗
- Who funds Companion Community Development Alternatives ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation The College of Wooster 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Shift Design Inc.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.5× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 300718529 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Shift Design Inc, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 26% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The College of Wooster?
Find your warmest path to The College of Wooster through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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