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Jules & Paulette Leroy Laurent Sch- Olarship

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0139% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$163k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$1,000
WILLIAM & MARY UNIVERSITY$1,000
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE$1,000
OHIO UNIVERSITY$1,000
SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE$1,000
SETON HILL UNIVERSITY$1,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF ST LOUIS$1,000
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$1,000
ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY$1,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ANGELINA SALDAMARCO: $1k → 9%PIETRO PORCO: $1k → 10%CHRISTINA SALDAMARCO: $1k → 11%JESSE GREYSHOCK: $1k → 13%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $1k → 13%DANIEL BAUER: $1k → 14%BRENDAN BRIDGE: $1k → 16%ABIGAIL BOULOS: $1k → 16%JOSHUA SOLOMON: $1k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $1k → 17%MOUNT MERCY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 9%BEN BOKULICH: $1k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF ST LOUIS: $1k → 11%AMANDA SHAGINAW: $1k → 13%GABRIELLE VERGERIO: $1k → 14%ANNA DECKER: $1k → 8%ANNIKA STANKOWSKI: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON: $1k → 14%ABIGAIL LISOWSKI: $1k → 15%CHRISTINA LAFKO: $1k → 17%JENNIFER RAKOWSKI: $1k → 19%OHIO UNIVERSITY: $1k → 22%WILLIAM & MARY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 7%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 20%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%CHRISTOPHER GALBRAITH: $1k → 9%SETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 10%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%BARBARA MATTHEWS: $1k → 13%BROOKE ZAWALNICKI: $1k → 14%CHARLES ZUBIK: $1k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%GARRETT SPIRNOCK: $1k → 17%MOUNT UNION UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%TYLER NOBLE: $1k → 15%BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 17%SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $1k → 10%KATRINA TALIANI: $1k → 11%GROVE CITY COLLEGE: $1k → 13%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%SHAE ROBSON: $1k → 10%ANNA SOLOMON: $1k → 11%NATHAN DUFFY: $1k → 13%LAROCHE COLLEGE: $1k → 11%ELORA O'ROURKE: $1k → 11%SAM SMALLWOOD: $1k → 11%RACHEL HOWENSTEIN: $1k → 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

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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 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.

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St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

2
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

4
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
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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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
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
9
California Lutheran University

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.

Education
10
Albright College

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

Education
11
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Seton Hill 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 56 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · Other+41 more — $41,000 · Other+41 moreWESTMINSTER COLLEGE — $1,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER COLLEGESAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITYDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $1,000 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE …MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC — $1,000 · EducationMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INCCornell University — $1,000 · EducationCornell UniversityGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $1,000 · EducationGROVE CITY COLLEGESETON HILL UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationSETON HILL UNIVERSITYLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $1,000 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INCSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE — $1,000 · EducationSAINT VINCENT COLLEGETHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…LA ROCHE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationLA ROCHE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHUniversity of Dayton — $1,000 · EducationUniversity of DaytonBaldwin Wallace University — $1,000 · EducationBaldwin Wallace University
Other$43,000Education$14,000

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 budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HILL UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA ROCHE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University — $1,000 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.

  • Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
  • Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC
  • Who funds Cornell University
  • Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE
  • Who funds SETON HILL UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds LA ROCHE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gladys M Hess Memorial Scholarship FundPA16.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gladys M Hess Memorial Scholarship Fund · Addison Gibson Foundation · Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jules & Paulette Leroy Laurent Sch- Olarship 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s 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 · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 56 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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