· Private foundation
Hefflefinger Scholarship Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE OF THE SEQUOIAS | $3,800 |
| CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE | $1,350 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $775 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $675 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE5× · 2020–2025 · $11k
- SCSEQUOIAS CCD5× · 2021–2025 · $9k
- CSCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +25%
Funded once
University of Chicagograduatedone grant, 2020 · $775 · revenue +52%- RCREEDLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION FORMERLY KINGS RIVER CC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $750 · revenue -32%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVISone grant, 2022 · $750
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.
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.
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.
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
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…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
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…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
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.
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…
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…
How this is measured
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 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds REEDLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION FORMERLY KINGS RIVER CC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hefflefinger Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hefflefinger Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jacksonville University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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