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Irving W Mershon Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$44kScience & Tech$375
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$800
Median grant
3
States reached
$183k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROWAN UNIVERSITY$2,300
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY$1,700
MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$800
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$300
VASSAR COLLEGE$300
MESSIAH UNIVERSITY$300
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $375 → 8%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%CABRINI UNIVERSITY: $250 → 6%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $2k → 8%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2k → 14%HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 6%VASSAR COLLEGE: $300 → 9%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $750 → 11%BARNARD COLLEGE: $750 → 17%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $825 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $1k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $525 → 8%CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $400 → 14%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%KEAN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 10%MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 11%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $825 → 16%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND: $1k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $2k → 9%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $300 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $525 → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $525 → 17%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $750 → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $375 → 14%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $825 → 8%KEAN UNIVERSITY: $250 → 10%THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $525 → 11%MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $300 → 8%MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $750 → 11%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 11%MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 11%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $800 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
NC
DC
GA
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12k · 5 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
21

Total granted

$12k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+17%

Still filing today

40%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • MC
    MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $6k
  • RU
    RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2025 · $3k
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • TU
    The University of Tampa Incorporatedgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +41%
  • DICKINSON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +8%
  • RIDER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
University of Miami

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

Education
4
Albright College

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

Education
5
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
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
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
8
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
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
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
11
Lewis & Clark College

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…

Education
12
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Dickinson College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 81 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%86%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%90%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,542

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $5,800 · OtherMERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGERUTGERS UNIVERSITY — $2,875 · OtherRUTGERS UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $2,333 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIREROWAN UNIVERSITY — $2,300 · OtherROWAN UNIVERSITYMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · OtherMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITYKEAN UNIVERSITY — $1,250 · OtherKEAN UNIVERSITYLoyola University Maryland Inc — $1,000 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · OtherSETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $825 · Other+4 more — $1,850 · Other+4 moreThe University of Tampa Incorporated — $3,500 · EducationThe University of Tampa IncorporatedDICKINSON COLLEGE — $2,333 · EducationDICKINSON COLLEGERIDER UNIVERSITY — $2,333 · EducationRIDER UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $2,025 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $1,700 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITYAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,575 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYClark Atlanta University Inc — $1,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationThe George Washington University — $1,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $1,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $775 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $750 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE — $750 · Education+4 more — $1,450 · Education+4 more
Other$22,233Education$22,191

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE — $2,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY — $2,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $2,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $825 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Irving W Mershon Scholarship Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
  • Rider University — 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University — 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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