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· Private foundation

The Lyle B & Wanda K Ganyard Scholarship Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
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 FY20172025.

Education$210kHealth$15kRecreation & Sports$4k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$626k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$2,000
MEDINA HOSPITAL$2,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$2,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MEDINA HOSPITAL: $2k → 7%MEDINA HOSPITAL: $2k → 7%MEDINA HOSPITAL: $2k → 7%MEDINA HOSPITAL: $2k → 7%MEDINA HOSPITAL: $2k → 7%MEDINA HOSPITAL: $2k → 7%MEDINA HOSPITAL: $2k → 7%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$100k · 12 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
86

Total granted

$100k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+18%

Still filing today

42%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • BW
    Baldwin Wallace University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +12%
  • University of Chicago
    3× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +34%
  • UO
    University of Mount Union
    2× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
4
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
5
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
6
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

12
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 78 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%13%10–20yr14%4%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr20%70%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr16%9%35–55yr20%77%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,281

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 102 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $28,000 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITYKENT STATE UNIVERSITY — $17,500 · OtherKENT STATE UNIVERSITYMEDINA HOSPITAL — $14,000 · OtherMEDINA HOSPITALUNIVERSITY OF AKRON — $9,399 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI — $8,500 · OtherMIAMI UNIVERSITY — $6,500 · Other+79 more — $108,285 · Other+79 moreBaldwin Wallace University — $7,000 · EducationBaldwin Wallace …THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $4,185 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF …University of Chicago — $3,000 · EducationUniversity of Ch…University of Mount Union — $3,000 · EducationUniversity of Mo…William Marsh Rice University — $2,500 · EducationWilliam Marsh Ri…CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC — $2,000 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVER…GROVE CITY COLLEGE — $2,000 · EducationGROVE CITY COLLE…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RES…+8 more — $8,000 · Education+8 moreNorthwestern University — $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$192,184Education$33,685Recreation & Sports$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBaldwin Wallace University — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $4,185 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Mount Union — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont McKenna College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Carroll University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarietta College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Baldwin Wallace University
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds University of Chicago
  • Who funds University of Mount Union
  • Who funds Northwestern University
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University
  • Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Lyle B & Wanda K Ganyard Scholarship Tr 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Johns Hopkins University11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 102 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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