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Tr Uw Chas E Schell Education

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$425k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2021–2025.

Education$4.4MHealth$1.9M
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $800k
  • $250k+1 grant · $425k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$425,000
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$200,000
THE CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
XAVIER UNIVERSITY$100,000
MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY$100,000
RHODES STATE COLLEGE$100,000
ADRIAN COLLEGE$100,000
LAKELAND FOUNDATION$100,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MEDGAR EVERS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 20%OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%ADRIAN COLLEGE: $100k → 12%SAINT AUGUSTINE'S UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%TRINE UNIVERSITY INC: $100k → 9%OAKLAND CITY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 10%SAINT MARY OF THE WOODS COLLEGE: $100k → 19%TAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%LAKELAND FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 9%WILMINGTON COLLEGE: $200k → 12%BLUFFTON UNIVERSITY: $100k → 13%MALONE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $425k → 16%CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%MIDWAY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 10%LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE: $100k → 22%UNION COLLEGE: $100k → 33%GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUN: $100k → 11%RHODES STATE COLLEGE: $100k → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $300k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200k → 16%UNION INSTITUTE & UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%THE CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $300k → 16%THE CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200k → 16%THE CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200k → 16%THE CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $100k → 16%GODS BIBLE SCHOOL & COLLEGE & MISSIONARY: $100k → 16%ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $100k → 16%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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 6 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
19

Total granted

$3.9M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+1%

Still filing today

83%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther

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

  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $900k · revenue +8%
  • TC
    The Christ Hospital Foundation
    4× · 2021–2025 · $800k · revenue +106%
  • MS
    MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • WC
    Wilmington College
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -5%
  • BU
    Bluffton University
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -16%
  • MU
    MALONE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +1%

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
Capital University

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

Education
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
Tiffin University

Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.

Education
4
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
5
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
6
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
7
Franklin University

Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…

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8
Trinity University

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

Education
9
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
10
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
11
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
12
Calvin University

The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midway University Inc Fka Midway College and the most unlike its peers is Central State University. 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 67 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr21%5%10–20yr14%9%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr20%55%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr21%20%10–20yr14%7%20–35yr16%39%35–55yr20%32%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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/25
the rest of the field
11%
8,036/74,281

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

24 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 29 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)
22/24
Grantees still filing
13/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

XAVIER UNIVERSITY — $900,000 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITYKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $600,000 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONMOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationMOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITYWilmington College — $200,000 · EducationWilmington CollegeART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI — $200,000 · EducationART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI+15 more — $1,500,000 · Education+15 moreGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,125,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATI…OAKLAND UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherOAKLAND UNIVERSITYRHODES STATE COLLEGE — $100,000 · OtherRHODES STATE COLLEGEMEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherMEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL…GODS BIBLE SCHOOL & COLLEGE & MISSIONARY — $100,000 · OtherGODS BIBLE SCHOOL & COLLEGE & MI…Union Institute & University — $100,000 · OtherUnion Institute & UniversityGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUN — $100,000 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE F…THE LAKELAND FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherTHE LAKELAND FOUNDATIONThe Christ Hospital Foundation — $800,000 · HealthThe Christ Hos…
Education$3,700,000Other$1,825,000Health$800,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY — $900,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Christ Hospital Foundation — $800,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWilmington College — $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI — $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBluffton University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMALONE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADRIAN COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTrine University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Augustine's University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnion Institute & University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTaylor University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAKELAND FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetOakland City University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charities Aid Foundat…A K Stephenson Fdn Ch…John B & Brownie Youn…The Ohio Foundation o…Council of Independen…National Collegiate A…The Greater Cincinnat…Three Arts Scholarshi…Berry Marie D Fd H Pf…The Austin E Knowlton…Johnson Charitable Gi…Duke Energy Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA16× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · A K Stephenson Fdn Char Tr Agy · John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fund · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Council of Independent Colleges · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc · Berry Marie D Fd H Pfdn · The Austin E Knowlton Foundation Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Duke Energy Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tr Uw Chas E Schell Education 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report 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, FY20–25

    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 29 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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