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John P Urban Scholarship Fund at a glance

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John P Urban Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$60k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$385k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$20,000
SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE$20,000
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$20,000
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY$10,000
NICHOLS COLLEGE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$10,000
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY$10,000
BENTLEY UNIVERSITY$10,000
ENDICOTT COLLEGE$10,000
UNION COLLEGE$10,000
BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $10k → 10%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $11k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $10k → 10%NICHOLS COLLEGE: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $60k → 12%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $9k → 16%SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $8k → 17%UNION COLLEGE: $10k → 12%NIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $11k → 12%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $20k → 9%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $20k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $20k → 9%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $21k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON: $9k → 16%UNION COLLEGE: $7k → 12%NIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $9k → 14%CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 12%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $12k → 7%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON: $5k → 16%UNION COLLEGE: $4k → 12%NIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $4k → 7%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $4k → 12%NIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$309k · 11 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$309k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+15%

Still filing today

64%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
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

  • SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue +38%
  • NIAGARA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue +8%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • EMMANUEL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +15%
  • WS
    WESTFIELD STATE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • SC
    SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -4%
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
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
2
Dickinson College

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

Education
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Albright College

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

Education
8
Dean College

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,…

Education
9
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
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
11
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $36,000 · EducationSAINT ANSELM COLLEGENIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $29,000 · EducationNIAGARA UNIVERSITYTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $25,000 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATEDCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $19,000 · EducationCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITYENDICOTT COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGEROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITYNICHOLS COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $9,000 · EducationSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $8,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $95,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERSTUNION COLLEGE: $21,000 · OtherUNION COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIREBRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherBRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $13,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREWESTFIELD STATE COLLEGE: $9,000 · Other
Education$201,000Other$183,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNICHOLS COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $8,000 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.

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.

National Collegiate A…Tulsa Community Found…Verizon FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN14× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Tulsa Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 John P Urban Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John P Urban Scholarship 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
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 · 0–30%
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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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