Ohio Christian Education Network
Columbus, OH · EIN 31-1787824. Reported 47 grants totalling $2,640,149 to 41 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 16% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 19% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $32,000. Half of what it reported fell between $16,400 and $71,289; the smallest was $7,440 and the largest $320,400. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage Classical Academy | Pepper Pike, OH | $422,163 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy Inc | Cincinnati, OH | $273,603 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Worthington Christian Schools Inc | Worthington, OH | $197,100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tree of Life Christian Schools | Columbus, OH | $157,975 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy | Cuyahoga Fls, OH | $133,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Westside Christian Academy | Westlake, OH | $126,092 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Miami Valley Christian Academy | Cincinnati, OH | $106,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mansfield Christian School | Mansfield, OH | $100,350 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lake Center Christian School | Hartville, OH | $82,140 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Garden Christian Academy | Cleveland, OH | $79,360 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grove City Christian School | Grove City, OH | $78,840 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Charis Classical Academy | Mason, OH | $71,289 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Peregrine Academy | Richfield, OH | $66,416 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chapel Hill Christian School | Cuyahoga Fls, OH | $64,389 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley Christian Academy Inc | Aurora, OH | $62,210 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cincinnati Christian Schools Inc | Fairfield, OH | $58,730 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Society of Saint Pius X Cleveland Ohio Inc | Richfield, OH | $56,525 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Groveport Madison Christian School | Groveport, OH | $52,810 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cornerstone Community School Inc | Tallmadge, OH | $38,110 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Granville Christian Academy Inc | Granville, OH | $32,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northstar Classical School Inc | Middletown, OH | $31,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Open Door Christian Schools Inc | Elyria, OH | $29,075 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chess Christian School | Springboro, OH | $28,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Weaver Child Development Center Inc | Canton, OH | $27,988 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Calvary Christian School | Bellefontaine, OH | $26,550 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Findlay Saint Michael the Archangel Parish | Findlay, OH | $26,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bowling Green Christian Academy | Bowling Green, OH | $26,350 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northside Christian Academy | Wadsworth, OH | $19,625 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Temple Christian School Inc | Lima, OH | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Canton Christian School | Canton, OH | $18,975 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kingsway Elementary School | Orrville, OH | $18,670 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Christian Community School | Grafton, OH | $16,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hilltop Montessori School | Steubenville, OH | $15,729 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Westside Christian School | Columbus, OH | $14,455 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Heritage Christian Schools of Ohio Inc | Canton, OH | $11,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Acton Academy | Bay Village, OH | $9,430 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| One School | Gahanna, OH | $9,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Faith Life Church | New Albany, OH | $8,050 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grace Christian Elementary School | Blacklick, OH | $7,610 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clermont Christian School | Batavia, OH | $7,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Agape Christian Academy | Burton, OH | $7,440 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
6 of 41 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Heritage Classical Academy
GRANTS WERE MADE TO STUDENTS, PAYMENTS SENT TO SCHOOLS ON BEHALF OF STUDENTS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 31 | $1,463,923 | $29,075 |
| 2024 | 16 | $1,176,226 | $63,434 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $32,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Ohio Christian Education Network's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2023-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 62 E Broad Street, Columbus, OH, 43215.
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