· Private foundation
Lending Help For Students Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k121 grants · $189k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $258k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SLG Cheer Sport The Cheer Pitt KC | $47,591 |
| Individual grant recipient | $42,815 |
| Kansas State University | $35,690 |
| Ed Financial Services | $23,851 |
| Pittsburg State University | $22,957 |
| University of Central Missouri | $17,687 |
| Missouri Valley College | $17,569 |
| Missouri State University | $16,950 |
| The Summit | $12,379 |
| Priscilla and Danas School of Dance | $10,410 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,295 |
| Truman State University | $9,883 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,339 |
| World Strides | $7,166 |
| University of Kansas | $7,028 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +11% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
145 repeat relationships: 69 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 63 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LELINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM4× · 2022–2025 · $51k · revenue +44%
- MVMISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +22%
- MNMIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $173k
- TCTHE CHEER PITT KC SLG CHEER SPORTone grant, 2023 · $132k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $69k
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.
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
The university affirms the institution's mission to prepare students for fulfilling lives, meaningful work and responsible citizenship. the university of mount union offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide array of academic…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
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 a catholic university, mount st. mary's graduates ethical leaders who are inspired by a passion for learning and lead lives of significance in service to god and others.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
The organization is organized exclusively for the fostering of amateur sports competition. the upper midwest athletic conference shall help member institutions promote and develop collegiate athletic programs and provide consistent…
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.
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…
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…
Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 437 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Kansas Independent College Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Kansas City Football Coaches Association · Great Jobs Kc Inc · Servant Foundation · Greater Horizons · Jack J Isgur Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lending Help For Students Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lending Help For Students Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Lesley University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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