· Private foundation
John P Urban Scholarship Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST | $60,000 |
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $20,000 |
| SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $10,000 |
| UNION COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| NIAGARA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| NICHOLS COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BENTLEY UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ENDICOTT COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
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
SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue +38%
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue +8%
Trustees of Tufts College3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- WSWESTFIELD STATE COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $9k
EMMANUEL COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +15%- SCSPRINGFIELD COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Bentley University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Tulsa Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 John P Urban 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.
- University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Nichols College — 0% of income from government
- Springfield College — 0% of income from government
- Endicott College — 0% of income from government
- Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
- Bentley University — 0% of income from government
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.