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Charles H Feoppel Educational Loan Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$203k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.3MScience & Tech$7kRecreation & Sports$500
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $127k
$6,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY$64,250
FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY$62,750
WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE$22,500
GLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY$8,000
WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$7,500
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$6,500
MARIETTA COLLEGE$6,500
INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY$6,500
BOSTON COLLEGE$6,500
OHIO UNIVERSITY$6,500
WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE$2,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$1,000
MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY$500
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$500
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY$500
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 (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON COLLEGE: $7k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $2k → 12%MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $500 → 15%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $500 → 13%MARIETTA COLLEGE: $7k → 15%OHIO UNIVERSITY: $7k → 22%WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $8k → 15%WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $23k → 19%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $64k → 19%GLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 23%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%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

MA
IN
OH
PA
WV
MD
NC
SC
TX
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 15 repeat orgs$277k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
21

Total granted

$1.0M
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-1%

Still filing today

20%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $87k · revenue +14%
  • MC
    Marietta College
    4× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue +15%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SC
    SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $44k · revenue -1%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $26k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
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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7
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
10
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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11
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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12
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington & Jefferson College; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

13 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. 13 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
4/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $468,110 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITYFAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY: $242,850 · OtherFAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITYWEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $46,070 · OtherPIERPONT COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $40,820 · Other+26 more: $304,251 · Other+26 moreWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $87,030 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA WES…SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $44,135 · EducationSPRINGFIELD COLLE…Marietta College: $27,410 · EducationMarietta CollegeUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $12,160 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PIT…+9 more: $29,320 · Education+9 more
Other$1,102,101Education$200,055

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 budgetWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $87,030 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $44,135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarietta College: $27,410 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $12,160 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY COLLEGE: $3,160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $3,160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $500 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 WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Marietta College ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE ↗

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.

Ritton Family FoundationOH15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ritton Family Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Albert a Christ Scholarship Fund 1403 · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Charles H Feoppel Educational Loan Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles H Feoppel Educational Loan Trust. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Springfield College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 43 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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