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Elmer Smith Scholarship Tuw at a glance

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Elmer Smith Scholarship Tuw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$7k
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$311k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$776k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$7,000
ROWAN UNIVERSITY$7,000
HOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY$3,000
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY$3,000
DICKINSON COLLEGE$3,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$3,000
THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY$2,000
PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA$2,000
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$1,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$1,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE$1,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $4k → 10%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 6%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $3k → 8%MUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $3k → 11%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%HOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY: $3k → 22%VASSAR COLLEGE: $3k → 9%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $2k → 16%PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $2k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 15%THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $2k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NC CHARLOTTE: $3k → 10%UNC WILMINGTON: $3k → 12%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $11k → 8%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 11%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 14%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $3k → 10%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%UNC WILMINGTON: $3k → 12%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $9k → 8%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 14%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $3k → 11%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $3k → 11%NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 16%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 22%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 16%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $4k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%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
CT
UT
CO
KY
VA
DE
TN
NC
SC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$267k · 27 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
16

Total granted

$267k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+12%

Still filing today

41%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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

  • SH
    SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $18k · revenue +42%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    4× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +74%
  • Bucknell University
    3× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -34%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DELWARE
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • MC
    MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -6%
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
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
University of Miami

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

Education
3
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
4
Seton Hill University

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

Education
5
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
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
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
8
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
9
Bentley University

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…

Education
10
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
11
Albright College

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

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware; the most unlike its peers is Brigham Young University Alumni Llc. 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

24 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. 24 of the 50 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · OtherRUTGERS UNIVERSITYSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $18,000 · OtherSETON HALL UNIVERSITYROWAN UNIVERSITY: $17,000 · OtherROWAN UNIVERSITYTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $11,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $10,000 · Other+24 more: $77,000 · Other+24 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $13,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INS…Bucknell University: $11,000 · EducationBucknell UniversityTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI: $7,000 · EducationATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE…PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 · EducationPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY …NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSITYDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationHOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,000 · EducationDICKINSON COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · Education+7 more: $9,000 · Education+7 more
Other$224,000Education$87,000

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 budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI: $7,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $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 SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds Bucknell University ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI ↗
  • Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗

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.

The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elmer Smith Scholarship Tuw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elmer Smith Scholarship Tuw. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Delaware State University: 16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 0% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 50 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home