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Elizabeth H Soeder Scholarship

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$107k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$437k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$2,000
EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$1,500
LOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$1,500
CALDWELL UNIVERSITY$1,500
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$1,500
DESALES UNIVERSITY$1,000
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$1,000
LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE$1,000
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$1,000
ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,000
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY$1,000
ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%DESALES UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $1k → 11%LOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 22%EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 11%CALDWELL UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
AL
FL
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42k · 11 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
24

Total granted

$42k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+12%

Still filing today

36%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • AC
    ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +33%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +6%
  • DU
    DESALES UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TD
    TYLER DODD CO COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • DU
    DESALES UNIV FBO STEVEN BERRODIN
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
5
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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9
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
10
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
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Atlantic Cape Community College Foundati. 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 43 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
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MADISON MCGAY CO RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · OtherMADISON MCGAY CO RUTGERS UNIVERSITYJAXON TOMLIN CO CABRINI UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherJAXON TOMLIN CO CABRINI UNIVERSITYJANE SEITZ CO DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherJANE SEITZ CO DREXEL UNIVERSITYCABRINI UNIV FBO JAXON TOMLIN: $4,500 · OtherSTOCKTON UNIV FBO JAYNE SEITZ: $4,500 · OtherTYLER DODD CO COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,500 · OtherDESALES UNIV FBO STEVEN BERRODIN: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · Other+25 more: $50,750 · Other+25 moreATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI: $3,000 · EducationATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNI…SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $2,750 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVER…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSI…DESALES UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationDESALES UNIVERSITYYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,500 · EducationYORK COLLEGE OF PENNS…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVE…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $1,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON CO…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBU…CALDWELL UNIVERSITY INC: $1,500 · EducationCALDWELL UNIVERSITY I…LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $1,000 · Education
Other$86,250Education$20,750

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 budgetATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDESALES UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALDWELL UNIVERSITY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $1,000 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 ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elizabeth H Soeder Scholarship funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth H Soeder Scholarship. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Caldwell University Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
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 43 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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