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Thomas L Myrtle R & Eva Alexander Sch Fifth at a glance

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Thomas L Myrtle R & Eva Alexander Sch Fifth

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$345kRecreation & Sports$2kHealth$1k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$70,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$955k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES$70,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1k → 11%TRINE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 9%HANOVER COLLEGE: $1k → 12%ANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $9k → 15%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $9k → 18%INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $70k → 15%MIDWAY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 10%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 19%SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS: $1k → 19%OFIC: $63k → 15%ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECH: $1k → 19%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $61k → 15%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $56k → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$256k · 7 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$256k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+33%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • TO
    THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $186k · revenue +21%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +7%
  • MU
    MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • O
    OFIC
    one grant, 2022 · $63k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
  • UO
    UNIVERISTY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
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
2
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
3
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
4
Otterbein University

Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…

Education
5
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
6
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
7
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
8
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
9
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
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Trinity University

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

Education
12
Walsh University Inc

Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midway University Inc Fka Midway College; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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 20 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $186,000 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGESUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $24,900 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE+8 more: $13,800 · Education+8 moreOFIC: $63,410 · OtherOFICTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $17,100 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYIndiana University School of Medicine: $14,500 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $8,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANAMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,900 · OtherMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERISTY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $5,900 · Other+4 more: $6,500 · Other
Education$224,700Other$123,810

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $186,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $24,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWabash College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarian University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrine University: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHanover College: $1,300 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.

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.

Folds of Honor Founda…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Folds of Honor FoundationOK13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Thomas L Myrtle R & Eva Alexander Sch Fifth funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas L Myrtle R & Eva Alexander Sch Fifth. 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%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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 20 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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