· Private foundation
Howard & Edna Postles 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE3× · 2017–2019 · $47k · revenue +37%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +45%- MUMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone 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.
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.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 104 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.
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.
Open a dossier: The Hearn Educational Fund · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howard & Edna Postles Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard & Edna Postles Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
- Delaware State University: 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
- Wilmington University Inc: 1% of income from government
- Washington College: 0% of income from government
- Stevenson University: 0% of income from government
- Pensacola Christian College Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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