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King Scholarship Fund at a glance

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King Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$180kArts & Culture$900
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$626k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUNY GENESEO$5,000
LE MOYNE COLLEGE$3,000
NAZARETH UNIVERSITY$2,000
CLARKSON UNIVERSITY$2,000
GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY$2,000
HOUGHTON COLLEGE$2,000
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO$2,000
ALFRED UNIVERSITY$1,500
ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE OF ART AND$1,500
CENTRAL COLLEGE$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 6%SUNY COBLESKILL: $2k → 10%SUNY GENESEO: $5k → 11%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $2k → 13%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $2k → 13%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 14%NIAGRA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%KEUKA COLLEGE: $2k → 15%SUNY CORTLAND: $3k → 15%FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2k → 17%SUNY POTSDAM: $3k → 18%SUNY FREDONIA: $3k → 18%HOUGHTON COLLEGE: $4k → 19%SUNY BINGHAMTON: $2k → 20%CENTRAL COLLEGE: $2k → 8%ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE OF ART AND: $2k → 7%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%SUNY GENESEO: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $2k → 13%LE MOYNE COLLEGE: $4k → 14%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 14%NIAGRA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%SUNY CORTLAND: $2k → 15%SUNY POTSDAM: $2k → 18%SUNY FREDONIA: $2k → 18%HOUGHTON COLLEGE: $3k → 19%CENTRAL COLLEGE: $2k → 8%SUNY GENESEO: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $2k → 13%LE MOYNE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2k → 14%NIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%HOUGHTON COLLEGE: $2k → 19%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2k → 14%HOUGHTON COLLEGE: $2k → 19%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%HOUGHTON COLLEGE: $2k → 19%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%ALFRED UNIVERSITY: $4k → 19%NAZARETH COLLEGE: $3k → 14%ALFRED UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%SAINT JOHN FISHER COLLEGE: $3k → 14%SAINT JOHN FISHER COLLEGE: $2k → 14%SAINT JOHN FISHER COLLEGE: $2k → 14%NAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%SAINT JOHN FISHER COLLEGE: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
CA
CO
AZ
DC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$154k · 23 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
18

Total granted

$154k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+17%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • HU
    HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +12%
  • AU
    ALFRED UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +20%
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    5× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • SB
    SUNY BINGHAMTON
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • SC
    SUNY COBLESKILL
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • FI
    FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2021 · $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.

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
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
2
Albright College

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

Education
3
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Macalester College

Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.

Education
10
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
11
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is American 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

27 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. 27 of the 46 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)
27/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $15,750 · EducationHOUGHTON UNIVERSITYALFRED UNIVERSITY: $13,050 · EducationALFRED UNIVERSITYRochester Institute of Technology: $11,150 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyLe Moyne College: $10,350 · EducationLe Moyne CollegeNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $9,050 · EducationNIAGARA UNIVERSITYMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $5,850 · EducationCENTRAL COLLEGE: $5,800 · EducationNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $5,700 · EducationHartwick College: $3,900 · Education+18 more: $29,150 · Education+18 moreSAINT JOHN FISHER COLLEGE: $9,900 · OtherSAINT JOHN FISHER COLLEGEFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $8,954 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHSUNY GENESEO: $8,650 · OtherSUNY GENESEOSUNY FREDONIA: $8,150 · OtherSUNY FREDONIAIndividual grant recipient: $7,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSUNY CORTLAND: $6,000 · OtherSUNY CORTLANDUNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $5,650 · OtherUNIVERSITY AT BUFFALOUNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO: $4,050 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO+11 more: $12,800 · Other+11 more
Education$109,750Other$71,454

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 budgetHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $15,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALFRED UNIVERSITY: $13,050 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $11,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLe Moyne College: $10,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $9,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $5,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL COLLEGE: $5,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $5,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College: $3,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $3,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE: $3,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTaylor University: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Nazarene College: $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE: $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $600 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 HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALFRED UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Hartwick College ↗
  • Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KEUKA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds Taylor University ↗
  • Who funds ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Eastern Nazarene College ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC 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.

Jessie H Baker Educat…Verizon FoundationGazin Norbert L Educa…Central New York Comm…W H Coe Medical & Sur…Guenther Scholarship …Tw Lk Mills & Tr Mill…The Greater Norwich F…National Collegiate A…JM McDonald Foundatio…Tulsa Community Found…The Bank of America C…
Jessie H Baker Educational FundNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jessie H Baker Educational Fund · Verizon Foundation · Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960 · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · W H Coe Medical & Surgical Fund 18363900 · Guenther Scholarship Fund the 003307 · Tw Lk Mills & Tr Mills Scholar Tr · The Greater Norwich Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 King Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from King 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 46 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home