· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $1,582,593 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $73,485,027 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $71,902,434 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHIFT DESIGN INC | $1,556,498 |
| WOOSTER CITY SCHOOLS | $12,050 |
| ONE EIGHTY INC | $8,045 |
| GREAT DECISIONS OF WAYNE COUNTY INC | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SDSHIFT DESIGN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $2.2M · revenue -19% · 26% of their budget
- AUASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2023 · $79k · revenue +30%
- GDGREAT DECISIONS OF WAYNE COUNTY6× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue -22% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +22%- CXCITIZEN X INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $15k
- WEWAYNE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
All of the expenses of the cww are for the purpose of improving local government and administration through cooperative efforts. all services are provided to various communities in western wayne county, michigan.
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. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.
The wsuaa exists to provide opportunities for alumni to participate in and contribute to wayne state university ("wsu"). the mission of the wsuaa is to provide wsu's alumni and friends information, resources, programs and service…
The corporation was formed to lessen the burdens of government and act in the public interest; to facilitate economic activities throughout wayne county, ny including the location and expansion of civic, industrial and commercial…
Wayne mediation center strives to provide the community served with a process for resolving disputes through empowerment, education, and effectiveness.
To aid, assist & promote education
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Wayne state university foundation was established to be a centralized means of encouraging and managing financial support to wayne state university. this support allows wayne state university to provide its students, faculty, and…
Wagner college prepares students for life, as well as for careers, by emphasizing scholarship, achievement, leadership, and citizenship. wagner college offers a comprehensive educational program that is anchored in the liberal arts,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne Economic Development Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citizen X Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN X INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WAYNE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ONEEIGHTY INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Wooster Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC % JOSEPH SZEKER ↗
- Who funds COMPANION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation · Wayne County Community Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co · Seaman Family Foundation Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 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.
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
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.