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Walt & Teri Bettinger Foundation Walter W Bettinger II Trustee

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.

$954k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$513k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

67% of Walt & Teri Bettinger Foundation Walter W Bettinger II Trustee’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Walt & Teri Bettinger Foundation Walter W Bettinger II Trustee named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $954k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
7
’18
6
’19
4
’20
6
’21
5
’22
3
’23
4
’24
7
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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$11MPhilanthropy$9.2MReligion$1.2MRecreation & Sports$151kPublic Safety & Disaster$53kHealth$20kFood & Nutrition$10k
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $393k
  • $250k+1 grant · $513k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$512,636
INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$226,624
GRACE CHURCH$166,666
GLENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
CAMP KOOCH-I-CHING$15,000
URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION OF COLORADO$10,000
YWAM MONTANA$3,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAMP KOOCH-I-CHING: $15k → 12%THE KINGS ACADEMY: $100k → 8%THE INLAND EMPIRE COMMUNITY FUND: $11k → 11%URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $10k → 12%ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION: $30k → 5%LAKEWOOD PARK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $25k → 9%CROSS AMERICA: $500k → 15%INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2.3M → 19%LAKESIDE CHATAUQUA FOUNDATION: $625k → 10%OHIO'S HOSPICE LIFE CARE: $20k → 10%ATHLETES VS CROHN'S AND COLITIS: $10k → 13%OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY: $105k → 15%GRACE CHURCH: $167k → 17%DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $400k → 29%ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $20k → 29%THE KINGS ACADEMY: $50k → 8%INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2.3M → 19%LAKESIDE CHATAUQUA FOUNDATION: $550k → 10%CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $726k → 13%ADA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $103k → 15%GRACE CHURCH: $25k → 17%DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 29%INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $360k → 19%LAKESIDE CHATAUQUA FOUNDATION: $300k → 10%CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $723k → 13%OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY: $75k → 15%GLENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 17%INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $227k → 19%CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $645k → 13%OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 19%CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $513k → 13%INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 19%CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $465k → 13%INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 19%CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $228k → 13%INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 19%CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $185k → 13%INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 19%CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $132k → 13%KINWELL ACADEMY: $60k → 19%KINWELL ACADEMY: $50k → 19%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES NE OHIO FINS CLUB BASEBALL: $15k → 13%LIVE THIRD FOUNDATION: $12k → 19%GRACE CHURCH: $167k → 13%GRACE CHURCH: $167k → 13%GRACE CHURCH: $167k → 13%BATH TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT: $52k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MT
MN
MA
IN
OH
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
MS
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 10 repeat orgs$715k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$13M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+67%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $577k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • IW
    INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +22%
  • CV
    CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +137%
  • TL
    THE LAKESIDE CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $1.5M · revenue +158% · 88% of their budget

Funded once

  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +63%
  • OH
    OHIO'S HOSPICE LIFE CARE
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • TI
    THE INLAND EMPIRE COMMUNITY FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
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
Nebraska Wesleyan University

Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.

Education
2
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
3
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
4
Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
5
Wilson College

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

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
8
Gardner-Webb University

The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
11
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Northern University; the most unlike its peers is Small College Basketball Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 29 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $5,936,624 · EducationINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYCUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $3,616,714 · EducationCUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY+8 more: $559,148 · Education+8 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $7,671,037 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCTHE LAKESIDE CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION: $1,475,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LAKESIDE CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATIONGRACE CHURCH INC: $691,666 · OtherDELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $412,500 · OtherBATH TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT: $53,125 · Other+11 more: $141,100 · OtherCross America Inc: $500,000 · ReligionADA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC: $105,500 · Recreation & SportsSMALL COLLEGE BASKETBALL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$10,112,486Philanthropy$9,146,037Other$1,298,391Religion$500,000Recreation & Sports$110,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $7,671,037 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $5,936,624 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $3,616,714 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetTHE LAKESIDE CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION: $1,475,000 over 3y, 88% of budgetDELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $412,500 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetOhio Northern University: $230,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KING'S ACADEMY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKINWELL ACADEMY INC: $110,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetADA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC: $105,500 over 2y, 86% of budgetZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGREENWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $4,148 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKESIDE CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cross America Inc ↗
  • Who funds DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗
  • Who funds THE KING'S ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds KINWELL ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds ADA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds SMALL COLLEGE BASKETBALL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗

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.

Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Renaissance Charitable Foundation IncIN12.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Walt & Teri Bettinger Foundation Walter W Bettinger II Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walt & Teri Bettinger Foundation Walter W Bettinger II Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Walt & Teri Bettinger Foundation Walter W Bettinger II Trustee through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 29 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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