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Callis Educational Fund

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102k
Granted FY2021
19
Grants FY2021
19
Organizations funded FY2021
32%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$6,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$6,500
Organizations funded a year
17 to 19
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
11
Total assets, FY2021
$445k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 32% of the organizations Callis Educational Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202119$102k32%
FY202017$103kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Education$205k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
CO
KY
AR
TN
NC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pratt Institute$16,25020%
Henderson State University$13,0002n/a
Baylor University$13,00020%
Lipscomb University$13,00020%
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor$9,75020%
Emerson College$9,75020%
Willamette University$9,75020%
Ohio Northern University$3,25010%
Indiana University School of Medicine$3,2501n/a
Chowan University$3,25010%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Callis Educational Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPratt Institute: $16,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor University: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLipscomb University: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Mary Hardin-Baylor: $9,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmerson College: $9,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWillamette University: $9,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOhio Northern University: $3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChowan University: $3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About Callis Educational Fund

How much does Callis Educational Fund give?
Callis Educational Fund reported 19 grants totaling $102,256 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Callis Educational Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Callis Educational Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Pratt Institute ($16k), Henderson State University ($13k), Baylor University ($13k).
Does Callis Educational Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Callis Educational Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Callis Educational Fund based?
Callis Educational Fund is based in IL.

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 23 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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