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Cv Maybelle and John I Holland Scholarship

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2021
15
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$3k
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$141kScience & Tech$1k
02FY2021 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$358k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE$2,500
EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$2,250
TENNESSEE TECH UNIVERSITY$2,000
MOTLOW STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,750
LEE UNIVERSITY$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE - CHATTANOOGA$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNSTVILLE$1,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$1,000
BERRY COLLEGE$500
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH$500
DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY$500
Trevecca Nazarene University$500
AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY$500
MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$500
LIPSCOMB 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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56k · 17 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$56k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+37%

Still filing today

35%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
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

  • LU
    LEE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +5%
  • BC
    BERRY COLLEGE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $2k · revenue +37%
  • TN
    TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • LU
    LIFE UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +10%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
    one grant, 2019 · $750
  • MU
    MILLIGAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +37%
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
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
3
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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4
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
5
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
6
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
7
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

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

—
9
University of Lynchburg

The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

Education
10
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
11
LeTourneau University

Letourneau university is a comprehensive institution of christian higher education where educators engage learners to nurture christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work,…

Education
12
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trevecca Nazarene University; the most unlike its peers is Life University Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 25 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE: $13,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLEEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $6,750 · OtherEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITYMOTLOW STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5,750 · OtherMOTLOW STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNSTVILLE: $4,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNSTVILLELEE UNIVERSITY: $4,500 · OtherLEE UNIVERSITYTENNESSEE TECH UNIVERSITY: $3,250 · OtherTENNESSEE TECH UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE - CHATTANOOGA: $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE - CHATTANOOGAMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,250 · OtherCHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,750 · Other+8 more: $6,000 · Other+8 moreBERRY COLLEGE INC: $1,750 · EducationBERRY COLLEGE INCTREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · EducationTREVECCA NAZARENE…Vanderbilt University: $1,500 · EducationVanderbilt Univer…UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $1,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE…UNION UNIVERSITY: $1,250 · EducationUNION UNIVERSITYLIFE UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 · EducationLIFE UNIVERSITY I…MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY: $500 · EducationBelmont University: $500 · Education
Other$51,500Education$9,500

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 budgetLEE UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNION UNIVERSITY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLIGAN UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $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 LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds UNION UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LIFE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Wollman Scholarship FundAL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wollman Scholarship Fund · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee 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 Cv Maybelle and John I Holland Scholarship funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cv Maybelle and John I Holland Scholarship. 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 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% 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 25 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $19k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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