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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.

$73M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$2.2MEducation$329kFood & Nutrition$18kArts & Culture$15kHuman Services$13kPublic Benefit$10kYouth Development$9kReligion$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $1,582,593, the rows itemized in this filing. The $73,485,027 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $71,902,434 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
$12,050
Median grant
2
States reached
$721M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHIFT DESIGN INC$1,556,498
WOOSTER CITY SCHOOLS$12,050
ONE EIGHTY INC$8,045
GREAT DECISIONS OF WAYNE COUNTY INC$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ONE EIGHTY INC: $8k → 10%People to People Ministries: $5k → 10%One Eighty Inc: $5k → 10%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 4 repeat orgs$277k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$2.3M
$265k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+57%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SD
    SHIFT DESIGN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2.2M · revenue -19% · 26% of their budget
  • AU
    ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $79k · revenue +30%
  • GD
    GREAT DECISIONS OF WAYNE COUNTY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue -22% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +22%
  • CX
    CITIZEN X INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • WE
    WAYNE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +9%
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.

04Its 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.

1
Waynesburg University

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…

Education
2
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. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…

Education
3
Wayne Mediation Center

Wayne mediation center strives to provide the community served with a process for resolving disputes through empowerment, education, and effectiveness.

Civil Rights
4
Portage Development Board

To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.

Public Benefit
5
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
6
The George Washington University

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…

Education
7
Wayne State Foundation

To aid, assist & promote education

Education
8
Wayne Economic Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
9
Wagner College

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,…

Education
10
Delaware Valley University

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…

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11
United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co

In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…

Philanthropy
12
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne Economic Development Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHIFT DESIGN INC: $2,219,938 · Arts & CultureSHIFT DESIGN INC+1 more: $36,450 · Arts & CultureNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationNORTHEAST…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $14,000 · EducationTHE BOARD…ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $79,000 · InternationalCOMPANION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES INC: $5,126 · InternationalCITIZEN X INCORPORATED: $15,000 · OtherWAYNE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $15,000 · OtherWOOSTER CITY SCHOOLS: $12,050 · OtherWOOSTER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $10,000 · OtherDAYBREAK COMMUNITY CHURCH: $6,000 · OtherONEEIGHTY INC: $13,339 · Human ServicesPEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC % JOSEPH SZEKER: $5,453 · Human ServicesBoys and Girls Club of Wooster Inc: $8,500 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$2,256,388Education$214,000International$84,126Other$58,050Human Services$18,792Youth Development$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHIFT DESIGN INC: $2,219,938 over 3y, 26% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $79,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGREAT DECISIONS OF WAYNE COUNTY: $36,450 over 6y, 33% of budgetCITIZEN X INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetWAYNE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONEEIGHTY INC: $13,339 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Wooster Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC % JOSEPH SZEKER: $5,453 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMPANION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES INC: $5,126 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

Ralph R and Grace B J…Wayne County Communit…Donald & Alice Noble …United Way of Wayne a…Seaman Family Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ralph R and Grace B Jones FoundationOH17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The College of Wooster funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The College of Wooster. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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