· Private foundation
Donald R Pitts & Zelma C Pitts Scholarship Fund
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of DONALD R PITTS & ZELMA C PITTS SCHOLARSHIP FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,436 |
| AMERICAN GUNSMITHING INSTITUTE | $479 |
| FORT HAYS TECH NORTH CENTRAL | $478 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS - MEDICAL | $478 |
| FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY | $478 |
| WASHBURN UNIVERSITY | $478 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2026, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FHFORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2026 · $12k
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2026 · $6k
- NCNORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TECHNICAL COLL4× · 2017–2025 · $3k
Funded once
- ESEMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2025 · $665
- BCBETHEL COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $600 · revenue +115%
- SCSTERLING COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $600 · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
See schedule o.dickinson college, founded in 1783, is a highly selective, private residential liberal arts college known for its innovative curriculum. for more than two centuries, dickinson has embraced the vision of an ever-evolving…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Supporting members in the development of community through education, advocacy, and the delivery of services.
Benedict college will be a power for good in society. the college is a full opportunity college with high quality programs of teaching, research, and public service. these programs provide the students and community with knowledge, skills,…
To build meaningful relationships with donors that lead to gifts that support the mission of midlands technical college to prepare students for success in the workforce.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Undergraduate and graduate education. (see schedule o)endicott integrates professional and liberal arts with experiential learning including internships.
Promoting a commitment to lifelong learning with a foundation in the liberal arts.
Coe college is a private, four-year co-educational liberal arts college.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
Seattle University, an institution of higher education, is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johnson County Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hastings College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust · Carrol & Darlene Booz Charitable Trust · Bill & Julia Thomas Charitable Trust · Tulsa Community Foundation · Kansas Independent College Association · Jellison Benevolent Society Inc · The Pete Henry Foundation · Greater Horizons · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Donald R Pitts & Zelma C Pitts Scholarship Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.