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OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 189 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,738,983 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,743,625). 125 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$174M
Revenue FY2025
189
Funders on record
$31M
Grants received
$471M
Net assets
125/189 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 671 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($114M) Expenses 100 ($114M) Net assets 100 ($338M)2018 Revenue 106 ($121M) Expenses 103 ($118M) Net assets 104 ($352M)2019 Revenue 126 ($143M) Expenses 106 ($121M) Net assets 108 ($364M)2020 Revenue 95 ($108M) Expenses 103 ($118M) Net assets 106 ($358M)2021 Revenue 105 ($119M) Expenses 96 ($109M) Net assets 130 ($440M)2022 Revenue 107 ($122M) Expenses 99 ($113M) Net assets 121 ($408M)2023 Revenue 99 ($112M) Expenses 109 ($124M) Net assets 122 ($412M)2024 Revenue 108 ($123M) Expenses 118 ($134M) Net assets 125 ($424M)2025 Revenue 153 ($174M) Expenses 126 ($143M) Net assets 139 ($471M)
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Revenue (153)Expenses (126)Net assets (139)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 4% · 2022 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

33% of OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 729 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$195k
17
$3.0M
18
$22M
19
$9.3M
20
$10M
21
$9.0M
22
$12M
23
$11M
24
$31M
25
0.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 49 funders to 92 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $2.8M.

47 of 189 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 189 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.

15%
largest funder
34%
top three
~18
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 31% · 2019 20% · 2020 18% · 2021 32% · 2022 27% · 2023 16%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

46% of OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

53% of OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $15M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 26 states.

VT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
KY
MD
DE
KS
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 189 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.2M on record — $11.2M federal, $5k state.

Federal$11.2M
grants $11.2Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$8.1M
  • National Science Foundation$1.7M
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.2M
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$136k
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$70k
State$5k
Top programs
  • SCHOLARSHIPS$5k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 8%Fundraising 3%

Governance

37
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • 19 Williams Manager LLC · disregarded
  • 19 Williams Drive Investor LLC · disregarded
  • Strand Theatre and Cultural Arts Association · exempt
  • Owu Fund LP · partnership
  • 19 Williams Drive LLC · partnership

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 189 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,738,983 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,743,625). 125 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 189 organizations giving $30,738,983 in grants to OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 125 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,743,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 189funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing