Ohio · Nonprofit
Scholarship Opportunities for Success
Scholarship Opportunities for Success (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,406 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($29,859). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $558k
What Scholarship Opportunities for Success does
Mission
Scholarship Opportunities for Success is a totally volunteer organization helping women overcome financial barriers to education by paying for tuition, books, fees, equipment and supplies, transportation and child care expenses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Scholarship Opportunities for Success is an all-volunteer organization which in 24 years has awarded over $1,000,000 to help 220 women. They are given the opportunity to pursue their academic goals, enabling them to obtain jobs that can raise the economic status of their families. Many recipients have overcome abuse, homelessness, addiction and financial hardships and graduate with academic honors.Applicants are carefully screened. They must be at least 18 years old and be US citizens. They must demonstrate financial need and show evidence that they are likely to succeed in achieving their goals. Awards do not exceed $7,500 and are paid directly to the facility providing the needed services. The scholarship funds may be used for tuition at universities, colleges, technology and trade schools, supplies, equipment, books, fees, bus passes and child care.
$77,547 spentof which $75,429 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $77,547.
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 2023 to 2024, from $388k to $479k (+23%).
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.
63% of Scholarship Opportunities for Success’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $75 → $10k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Scholarship Opportunities for Success’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Scholarship Opportunities for Success leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
55% 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 Scholarship Opportunities for Success.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 59% · 2022 97% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
55% of Scholarship Opportunities for Success'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 $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Scholarship Opportunities for Success runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Scholarship Opportunities for Success
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Scholarship Opportunities for Success: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Scholarship Opportunities for Success?
- Scholarship Opportunities for Success (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,406 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($29,859). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Scholarship Opportunities for Success have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $55,406 in grants to Scholarship Opportunities for Success, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Scholarship Opportunities for Success?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $29,859 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Scholarship Opportunities for Success 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 5 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing