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Edwin R Fredericksen Scholarship Fund at a glance

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Edwin R Fredericksen Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$274kRecreation & Sports$8k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$28,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$513k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OFIC$28,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $8k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $8k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $8k → 13%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $33k → 15%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%College of Dupage: $3k → 7%Illinois Institute of Technology: $8k → 14%Bradley University: $8k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $6k → 19%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $33k → 15%Triton College: $8k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $2k → 19%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $32k → 15%Triton College: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $2k → 19%OFIC: $30k → 15%Triton College: $3k → 14%Universtity of Illinois: $5k → 19%OFIC: $28k → 15%HAROLD WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $1k → 14%OFIC: $27k → 15%Loyola University Chicago: $5k → 14%DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$208k · 4 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$208k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+28%

Still filing today

25%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • TO
    THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $98k · revenue +31%
  • O
    OFIC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $85k
  • TC
    Triton College
    3× · 2017–2019 · $16k

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +24%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technologygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +28%
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
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
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
4
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
5
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
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
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
8
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
9
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
10
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
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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12
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loyola University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Bradley University. 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

8 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. 8 of the 17 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OFIC: $85,000 · OtherOFICTriton College: $15,500 · OtherTriton CollegeUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $9,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $7,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · OtherUniverstity of Illinois: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $3,750 · OtherTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $98,000 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGESUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $7,500 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITYIllinois Institute of Technology: $7,500 · EducationIllinois Institute of TechnologyBRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationBRADLEY UNIVERSITYLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $5,000 · EducationDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,250 · Education
Other$141,500Education$140,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $98,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $2,250 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edwin R Fredericksen Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin R Fredericksen Scholarship Fund. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 17 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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