· Private foundation
Ladies Education Society
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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Illinois College | $9,996 |
| Southern Illinois University | $9,865 |
| University of Illinois | $7,400 |
| Illinois State University | $6,129 |
| Lewis and Clark College | $5,367 |
| American College of Education | $3,629 |
| Judson University | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Ladies Education Society’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 53%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICILLINOIS COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +9%
LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +2%- GCGrand Canyon University2× · 2019–2020 · $9k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Missouri - STLone grant, 2023 · $4k
- WSWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $3k
- HLHannibal LaGrange Universityone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -29%
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.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
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.
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
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…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
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…
We are a Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university founded in 1843 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. Clarke educates students at the post-secondary level in the liberal arts and sciences, the…
In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
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 28 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.
- Who funds ILLINOIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Hannibal LaGrange University ↗
- Who funds JUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ladies Education Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ladies Education Society. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
Play a game based on Ladies Education Society’s filings →