· Private foundation
Donald R Pitts & Zelma C Pitts Scholarship Fund
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,436 |
| AMERICAN GUNSMITHING INSTITUTE | $479 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS - MEDICAL | $478 |
| FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY | $478 |
| FORT HAYS TECH NORTH CENTRAL | $478 |
| WASHBURN UNIVERSITY | $478 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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.
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald R Pitts & Zelma C Pitts Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald R Pitts & Zelma C Pitts Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
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