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OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 195 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,923,743 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,743,625). 127 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $174M
- Funders on record
- 195
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $471M
What Ohio Wesleyan University does
Mission
See schedule oohio wesleyan's charter provides that "the university is forever to be conducted on the most liberal principles, accessible to all religious denominations, and designed for the benefit of our citizens in general." in the spirit of its heritage, the university defines itself as a community of teachers and students devoted to the free pursuit of truth. It develops in its students qualities of intellect and character that will be useful no matter what they choose to do in later life. Owu judges itself successful when it has accomplished three objectives in its work with students: to impart knowledge. To develop and enhance certain important capabilities of students. To place education in the context of values.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
One of the nation's premier small liberal arts colleges, Ohio Wesleyan University boasts a rigorous curriculum, exceptionally strong mentoring relationships between students and faculty, and a host of experiential learning opportunities that link the liberal arts to practical realities and prepare students for service and leadership in their careers and communities.
$128,463,359 spentof which $60,666,968 as grants$102,171,891 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $128,463,359.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $451M to $523M (+16%).
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.
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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Emilie Clark
Executive director-nyarts
Board chair
Nicholas Calio
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
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 195 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 195 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.
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; 65% give in more than one year at all.
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
52% 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, 66% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 24 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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.
Against its field
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
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.
- 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
- 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
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
- OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 195 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,923,743 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,743,625). 127 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% 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 195 organizations giving $30,923,743 in grants to OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 127 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.
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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 195 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing