Ohio · Nonprofit
Shawnee State University Foundation
Shawnee State University Foundation (Ohio) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,110,156 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($567,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Shawnee State University Foundation does
Mission
The Shawnee State University Foundation (ssuf) was created as a 501(c)(3) organization with the mission of making friends and creating funds and support for shawnee state university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student financial aid in the form of academic scholarships and awards, and need-based scholarships and loans provided to students helps the institution attract the best students and allow students who might otherwise not be afforded a college education to attend shawnee state university. All scholarship payments totaling $506,780 were paid to shawnee state university on behalf of the enrolled award recipient students for partial payment of tuition, fees and/or other expenses directly related to education. The number of unique scholarship recipients during fiscal year 2025 was 300. The foundation also made payments to the university during fiscal year 2025 totaling $1,678,540 to benefit various university projects and programs.
$2,286,341 spentof which $2,286,341 as grants94% of program spendingDisbursements to benefit the academic programs of shawnee state university.
$117,428 spent5% of program spendingThe foundation supports departmental programs, faculty development in the form of research and writing subsidies, and provides funds for visiting scholars and lecturers which are all vital to the development of the faculty at shawnee state university. Grant payments totaling $16,107 were paid to faculty and staff for direct support of research and academic programming. The number of faculty and staff grant recipients during fiscal year 2025 was 6.
$23,870 spentof which $16,107 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,427,639.
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 $31M to $35M (+13%).
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: 2019 15% · 2020 19% · 2021 29% · 2022 53% · 2023 32% · 2024 1% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of Shawnee State University Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $5k → $139k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Shawnee State University Foundation’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
Shawnee State University Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 Shawnee State University Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 56% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 80% · 2022 37% · 2023 36% — 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
13% of Shawnee State University Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
61% of Shawnee State University Foundation'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 $434k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $677k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Shawnee State University Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Shawnee State University Foundation
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Shawnee State University · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Shawnee State University Foundation: 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 Shawnee State University Foundation?
- Shawnee State University Foundation (Ohio) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,110,156 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($567,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Shawnee State University Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,110,156 in grants to Shawnee State University Foundation, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Shawnee State University Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $567,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Shawnee State University Foundation 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 20 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