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Dr Calvin Martin Memorial Scholarship Fd

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$114k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$612kRecreation & Sports$25kScience & Tech$20kHealth$10k
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$20,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$10,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$6,500
SUNY BINGHAMTON$5,000
OLIN COLLEGE$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$5,000
BATES COLLEGE$5,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$5,000
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$5,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO$5,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$5,000
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY-MAURICE A DEAN L$5,000
OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY$5,000
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OLIN COLLEGE: $5k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO: $15k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%IONA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $10k → 17%SUNY BINGHAMTON: $5k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $5k → 10%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $5k → 10%STAMFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%TRINITY COLLEGE: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FDN: $5k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL: $5k → 22%PRESIDENTS AND FELLOWS OF: $5k → 9%BATES COLLEGE: $5k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO: $10k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7k → 14%HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY-MAURICE A DEAN L: $5k → 6%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $17k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%TRUSTEES FOR HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $21k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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VT
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$403k · 16 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$403k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+28%

Still filing today

81%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • Cornell University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $102k · revenue +50%
  • NY
    New York University
    5× · 2019–2024 · $56k · revenue +51%
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -15%
  • GC
    GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +3%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
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
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
5
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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9
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University and the most unlike its peers is The City College Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 75 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%68%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%5%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%74%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,729

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
28/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cornell University — $102,353 · EducationCornell UniversityNew York University — $56,000 · EducationNew York UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $50,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $45,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYRensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $40,000 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $28,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $20,000 · Education+17 more — $143,600 · Education+17 moreSUNY BINGHAMTON — $12,500 · OtherSUNY BINGHAMTO…OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherOAKWOOD UNIVER…THE CITY COLLEGE FUND — $10,000 · OtherTHE CITY COLLE…SUNY BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE — $5,000 · OtherSUNY BUFFALO S…HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY-MAURICE A DEAN L — $5,000 · OtherHOFSTRA UNIVER…OLIN COLLEGE — $5,000 · OtherOLIN COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF …UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF …STAMFORD UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · OtherSTAMFORD UNIVE…YALE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSIT…PRESIDENTS AND FELLOWS OF — $5,000 · OtherPRESIDENTS AND…CITY COLLEGE OF NY-CUNY SCHOOL OF M — $5,000 · OtherCITY COLLEGE O…+2 more — $5,000 · Other+2 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · Community ImprovementNorthwestern University — $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$529,953Other$87,500Community Improvement$25,000Recreation & Sports$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCornell University — $102,353 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $56,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees for Harvard University — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOAKWOOD UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE FUND — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY — $6,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Dr Calvin Martin Memorial Scholarship Fd 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Georgian Court University — 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
  • Trinity College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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