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New Orphan Asylum Scholarship Foundation

Cincinnati, OH · EIN 31-0536683. Reported 102 grants totalling $502,001 to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,042median grant
$502,001granted, 2021-2024
46organizations funded
65%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,718,740assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. New Orphan Asylum Scholarship Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $3,042. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,903 and $5,522; the smallest was $1,100 and the largest $32,054. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
71 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
20 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
10 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
University of CincinnatiCincinnati, OH$83,599442024
Tennessee State UniversityNashville, TN$66,781442024
Alabama A&m UniversityHuntsville, AL$32,103442024
Xavier UniversityCincinnati, OH$31,553442024
Northern Kentucky UniversityHighland Heights, KY$26,880442024
Fisk UniversityNashville, TN$20,429442024
North Carolina A&t State UniversityGreensboro, NC$18,815442024
Bowling Green State UniversityBowling Green, OH$15,690332024
Miami UniversityOxford, OH$15,369332024
Mount St Joseph UniversityCincinnati, OH$14,250442024
University of AkronAkron, OH$14,080432023
The Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH$12,687542024
Kent State UniversityKent, OH$12,472222022
Alabama State UniversityMontgomery, AL$12,326332024
Howard UniversityWashington, DC$11,587332024
West Virginia State UniversityInstitute, WV$11,207332023
Georgetown CollegeGeorgtown, KY$10,745332023
University of LouisvilleLouisville, KY$8,985332023
College of Coastal GeorgiaBrunswick, GA$7,445222023
Tuskegee UniversityTuskegee, AL$5,686222022
Kentucky State UniversityFrankfort, KY$4,862222023
Kettering UniversityFlint, MI$4,862222022
Morgan State UniversityBaltimore, MD$4,142222024
Columbia College ChicagoChicago, IL$4,123222024
Valparaiso UniversityValparaiso, IN$4,103222024
University of Cincinnati Blue AshBlue Ash, OH$3,847112022
Hampton UniversityHampton, VA$3,763222022
Columbus College of Art & DesignColumbus, OH$3,300332024
Delta State UniversityCleveland, MS$3,042112024
Morehouse CollegeAtlanta, GA$3,042112024
Otterbein UniversityWesterville, OH$3,042112024
Wright State UniversityDayton, OH$3,042112024
Claflin UniversityOrangeburg, SC$2,663112021
Wake Forest UniversityWinstonsalem, NC$2,663112021
Muskingum UniversityNew Concord, OH$2,200112021
Bowie State UniversityBowie, MD$1,903112024
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$1,903112024
Savannah State UniversitySavannah, GA$1,903112024
Tiffin UniversityTiffin, OH$1,903112024
Wittenburg UniversitySpringfield, OH$1,903112024
Georgetown UniversityWashington, DC$1,562112021
Capital UniversityBexley, OH$1,139112024
Arizona State UniversityTempe, AZ$1,100112023
Southern University A&m CollegeBaton Rouge, LA$1,100112021
Thomas More CollegeCrestview Hills, KY$1,100112021
Upstate New York Medical SchoolSyracuse, NY$1,100112023

27 of 46 (59%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 65%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 60 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
60 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202127$119,300$3,762
202224$102,526$3,023
202324$168,482$5,522
202427$111,693$3,042

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 44% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Ohio
$220K
Tennessee
$87K
Kentucky
$53K
Alabama
$50K
North Carolina
$21K
District of Columbia
$13K
Georgia
$12K
West Virginia
$11K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund26 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc23 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc21 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc18 shared recipientsEnterprise Holdings Foundation17 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America16 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,042. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Ohio.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from New Orphan Asylum Scholarship Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 260 Northland Blvd 225, Cincinnati, OH, 45246. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 31-0536683 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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