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The Robert H Jentes Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
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.

Education$459k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
$3,225
Median grant
3
States reached
$906k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY$19,565
MALONE UNIVERSITY$16,770
OHIO UNIVERSITY$4,945
COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN$3,655
HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE$3,225
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$3,225
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$2,795
WALSH UNIVERSITY$2,365
Individual grant recipient$2,150
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $3k → 16%HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 13%COLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY: $2k → 5%MALONE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 13%WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY: $20k → 15%COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $4k → 15%OHIO UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%WALSH UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 15%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$372k · 31 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
15

Total granted

$372k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+24%

Still filing today

16%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • TB
    THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $81k · revenue +3%
  • MU
    MALONE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $46k · revenue +1%
  • UO
    University of Dayton
    4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
Lehigh University

Lehigh university strives to earn international prominence as a universty of special distinction and provide students with opportunities for success through its integration of teaching, research and service to society.

Education
2
John Carroll University

As one of 27 jesuit catholic universities in the usa, john carroll university's mission is to inspire individuals to excel in learning, leadership, and service.

Education
3
University of New Haven

University of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education
4
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Delaware Valley University

A private four-year university providing higher education to individuals seeking advancement.

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7
California Lutheran University

Clu is an institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
8
Massachusetts Higher Education

Provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
National Collegiate Athletic Association

Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.

Recreation & Sports
10
Mount Saint Mary's University Inc

Mount st. mary's university, the second oldest catholic university in the u.s., (see schedule o), offers more than 60 academic majors, minors, and concentrations. graduate programs in business, education, philosophy, theology and divinity…

Education
11
Mcdaniel College Inc

Students are the focus at mcdaniel and providing the ideal learning environment is our goal.

Education
12
The Associates of the University

The Organization's mission is to accept donations from sources within the United States for the benefit of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mount Union; the most unlike its peers is Hillsborough Community College. 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

6 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. 6 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $42,325 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITYKENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $17,120 · OtherKENT STATE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $13,100 · OtherOHIO UNIVERSITY: $9,945 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherSTARK STATE COLLEGE: $8,900 · Other+34 more: $150,240 · Other+34 moreTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE: $81,005 · EducationTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGEMALONE UNIVERSITY: $45,560 · EducationMALONE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Dayton: $12,150 · EducationUniversity of DaytonCOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $11,965 · EducationCOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGNWalsh University Inc: $7,005 · Education+1 more: $2,800 · Education
Other$250,630Education$160,485

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE: $81,005 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMALONE UNIVERSITY: $45,560 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $12,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $11,965 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWalsh University Inc: $7,005 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Mount Union: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Dayton ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
  • Who funds University of Mount Union ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert H Jentes Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert H Jentes Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 46 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-PF 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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