· Private foundation
John William Rollison Jr Education Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $7,650 |
| WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE | $7,650 |
| EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $6,300 |
| COLLEGE OF THE ALBERMARLE | $4,325 |
| CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY CNU | $4,200 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY | $4,200 |
| LIBERTY UNIVERSITY | $3,950 |
| REGENT UNIVERSITY | $3,700 |
| MEREDITH COLLEGE | $3,700 |
| VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $3,700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LULIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +67%
- RUREGENT UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +54%
- RCRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE2× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- VPVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $8k
- PDPAUL D CAMP COMMUNITY COone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
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
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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…
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Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John William Rollison Jr Education Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John William Rollison Jr Education Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
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