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The Ohio State University Alumni Association

To be the heart of the buckeye alumni community, inspiring and cultivating engaged citizens.

$53k
Granted FY2019
8
Grants FY2019
5
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2019 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$6,902
Median grant
5
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OSU ALUMNI CLUB OF DETROIT$8,647
TRI-COUNTY ALUMNI CLUB$8,120
STADIUM SCHOLARSHIP ALUMNI SOCIETY$7,074
THE OHIO STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC$6,902
THE OHIO STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF DALLAS$6,300
SARASOTA MANATEE FLORIDA ALUMNI CLUB$5,892
THE OHIO STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF RICHLAND COUNTY$5,098
THE OHIO STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY$5,068
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 (FY18–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE OHIO STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF DALLAS: $6k → 14%THE OHIO STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC: $7k → 14%THE OHIO STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA: $8k → 6%TRI-COUNTY ALUMNI CLUB: $8k → 9%SARASOTA MANATEE FLORIDA ALUMNI CLUB: $6k → 10%OSU ALUMNI CLUB OF DETROIT: $9k → 8%WEST MICHIGAN ALUMNI CLUB: $5k → 11%STADIUM SCHOLARSHIP ALUMNI SOCIETY: $7k → 15%THE OHIO STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF RICHLAND COUNTY: $5k → 15%THE OHIO STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC: $6k → 9%TRI-COUNTY ALUMNI CLUB: $6k → 9%OSU ALUMNI CLUB OF DETROIT: $8k → 8%THE OHIO STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY: $5k → 15%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.

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$56k · 4 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$56k
$13k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $17k
  • TA
    TRI-COUNTY ALUMNI CLUB
    2× · 2018–2019 · $14k
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $13k

Funded once

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2019.

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 20182019, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 10 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $16,533 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INCTRI-COUNTY ALUMNI CLUB — $14,438 · OtherTRI-COUNTY ALUMNI CLUBOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $13,211 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INCOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CLUB OF SARASOTA-MANATEE — $11,721 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CLUB OF SARASOTA-MANATEEOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $8,457 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INCSTADIUM SCHOLARSHIP ALUMNI SOCIETY — $7,074 · OtherSTADIUM SCHOLARSHIP ALUMNI SOCIETYTHE OHIO STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF DALLAS — $6,300 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE ALUMNI CLUB OF DALLASOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $5,098 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INCTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO — $5,068 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIOOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $5,001 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
Other$92,901

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their 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.

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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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