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Adolph R Czepiel Memorial Fund at a glance

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Adolph R Czepiel Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.3M
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$12,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$156k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWN UNIVERSITY$12,000
MOLLOY UNIVERSITY$12,000
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$12,000
NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY$6,000
KEENE STATE COLLEGE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $6k → 10%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $12k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $8k → 22%MOLLY UNIVERSITY: $12k → 6%CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $9k → 9%FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $4k → 17%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%LINCOLN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $4k → 12%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $19k → 20%NEW ENGLAND INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGY: $12k → 7%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $12k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $6k → 10%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $12k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $14k → 16%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $6k → 22%MOLLOY UNIVERSITY: $12k → 6%FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $4k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $14k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $4k → 12%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $12k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $6k → 10%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $6k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART: $13k → 16%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%MOLLY UNIVERSITY: $6k → 6%FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $4k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $14k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART: $12k → 16%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $4k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $13k → 11%JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $12k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART: $4k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $12k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $11k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $5k → 11%LINCOLN COLLEGE OF NEW ENGLAND: $16k → 11%LINCOLN COLLEGE OF NEW ENGLAND: $8k → 11%GOODWIN COLLEGE: $33k → 11%GOODWIN COLLEGE: $31k → 11%GOODWIN COLLEGE: $29k → 11%GOODWIN COLLEGE: $12k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
MD
DE
NC
SC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$525k · 19 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$525k
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+29%

Still filing today

58%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
    7× · 2017–2023 · $82k · revenue +13%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $34k · revenue +53%
  • MU
    MOLLOY UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $1.7M
  • EC
    EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +29%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

—
7
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
8
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
9
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of New Haven; the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY: $1,701,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY+13 more: $224,807 · Other+13 moreGOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC: $104,818 · EducationGOODWIN UNIVERSI…UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $81,828 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HA…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $34,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNI…MOLLOY UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationMOLLOY UNIVERSIT…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $25,065 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSIT…NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $17,949 · EducationNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · Education+4 more: $29,590 · Education+4 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,925,807Education$338,250Community Improvement$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC: $104,818 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $81,828 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $34,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOLLOY UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $25,065 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $17,949 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $8,590 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MOLLOY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds University of New Haven ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Adolph R Czepiel Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adolph R Czepiel Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Goodwin University Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home