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Fredk Scholarship Fund

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$952k
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
50%
First-time grantees FY2021
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74% of Fredk Scholarship Fund’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Albion College, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’20
2
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$217,965
Largest grant, FY2021
$435,931
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 50% of the organizations Fredk Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20212$248k50%
FY20201$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Education$724kPhilanthropy$218kHealth$50k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Forest Hills Public Schools Foundation$217,966130%
University of Michigan$50,00029%

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About Fredk Scholarship Fund

How much does Fredk Scholarship Fund give?
Fredk Scholarship Fund reported 5 grants totaling $951,862 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Fredk Scholarship Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (73%), Philanthropy (22%), Health (5%).
Who are Fredk Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Forest Hills Public Schools Foundation ($218k), University of Michigan ($50k).
Does Fredk Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fredk Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Fredk Scholarship Fund based?
Fredk Scholarship Fund is based in MI.

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 4 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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