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J a Ophelia Killgore Scholarship Trust Fund at a glance

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J a Ophelia Killgore Scholarship Trust Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$131k
Granted FY2021
32
Grants FY2021
14
States reached
$47k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.0MScience & Tech$14k
02FY2021 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k30 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $64k
$1,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$47,000
SOUTHERN UNION STATE COMMUNITY$17,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$6,500
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM$6,500
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$5,500
TROY UNIVERSITY$5,000
HUNTINGDON COLLEGE$4,500
ALBERT LUDWIGS UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG$3,760
YALE UNIVERSITY$3,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$2,500
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,500
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$1,500
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY$1,500
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 (FY19–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $3k → 7%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $1k → 10%JOHN PAUL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA: $2k → 13%SOUTHERN UNION STATE OPELIKA: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM: $6k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $14k → 17%AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY: $4k → 18%JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $7k → 19%TROY UNIVERSITY PHENIX CITY: $11k → 22%SOUTHERN UNION STATE COMMUNITY: $8k → 23%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 32%DRURY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART: $2k → 16%COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 18%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 24%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%VIRGINIA TECH: $2k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 22%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA: $2k → 13%SOUTHERN UNION STATE OPELIKA: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM: $6k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $10k → 17%AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY: $4k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $3k → 19%TROY UNIVERSITY PHENIX CITY: $10k → 22%SOUTHERN UNION STATE COMMUNITY: $6k → 23%DRURY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 24%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%VIRGINIA TECH: $2k → 21%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $62k → 15%SAMFORD UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $49k → 15%SAMFORD UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%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
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$377k · 30 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2021, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
10

Total granted

$377k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+42%

Still filing today

27%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
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

  • Samford University
    3× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue +56%
  • HC
    HUNTINGDON COLLEGE
    2× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue +16%
  • Vanderbilt University
    3× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • SC
    SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • TU
    Tuskegee Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +42%
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
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
University of Miami

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

Education
7
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
8
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
9
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
10
Drexel University

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…

Education
11
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
12
Case Western Reserve University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is John Paul the Great Catholic University. 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

25 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. 25 of the 56 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $158,357 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYSOUTHERN UNION STATE COMMUNITY: $30,500 · OtherSOUTHERN UNION STATE COMMUNITYUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMATROY UNIVERSITY PHENIX CITY: $21,000 · OtherTROY UNIVERSITY PHENIX CITYUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM: $18,500 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITY: $12,500 · Other+28 more: $95,260 · Other+28 moreSamford University: $6,000 · EducationSamford Univers…HUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $5,500 · EducationHUNTINGDON COLL…Vanderbilt University: $5,500 · EducationVanderbilt Univ…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $4,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TR…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $3,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOS…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,000 · EducationDrury University: $3,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,000 · EducationJohn Paul The Great Catholic University: $2,000 · Education+9 more: $11,500 · Education+9 more
Other$366,117Education$58,000

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 budgetSamford University: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDrury University: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Paul The Great Catholic University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT UNIVERSITY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaGrange College: $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 Samford University ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds Drury University ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds John Paul The Great Catholic University ↗
  • Who funds POINT 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.

Council of Independen…Tulsa Community Found…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Council of Independent CollegesDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Council of Independent Colleges · Tulsa Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 J a Ophelia Killgore Scholarship Trust Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J a Ophelia Killgore Scholarship Trust Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–90%
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 56 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $137k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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