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Link Unlimited Scholars

To connect Black students with resources and opportunities that strengthen the necessary skills to succeed as they advance to, through, and beyond college.

$944k
Granted FY2017
22
Itemized grants FY2017
22
Organizations funded FY2017
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Itemized, FY2017
$921k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2017
$36,625
Largest grant, FY2017
$133,750
States reached, FY2017
1
Total assets, FY2017
$4.4M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marian Catholic$133,7501n/a
De Lasalle Institute$87,5501n/a
Marist High School$86,1501n/a
Mother McAuley High School$74,7501n/a
Holy Trinity High School$69,0001n/a
St Joseph High School$60,5891n/a
Trinity High School$47,8751n/a
St Rita of Cascia High School Corporation$46,5001n/a
Mount Carmel High School$42,9381n/a
Fenwick High School$42,7501n/a
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All grantees of Link Unlimited Scholars by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marian Catholic$133,7501n/a
De Lasalle Institute$87,5501n/a
Marist High School$86,1501n/a
Mother McAuley High School$74,7501n/a
Holy Trinity High School$69,0001n/a
St Joseph High School$60,5891n/a
Trinity High School$47,8751n/a
St Rita of Cascia High School Corporation$46,5001n/a
Mount Carmel High School$42,9381n/a
Fenwick High School$42,7501n/a
DePaul College PrepGordon Tech$36,6251n/a
Brother Rice High School$33,5601n/a
Chicago Hope Academy$23,50010%
Providence St Mel School$20,00010%
Walther Lutheran High School Association Inc$19,0001n/a
The Association of Illiana Christian High School of Indiana Inc$18,50010%
Morgan Park Academy$15,50010%
The Chicago Academy for the Arts$15,25010%
Guerin College Preparatory High School$15,0001n/a
University of Chicago$13,31610%
Depaul University$10,00010%
Montini Catholic High School$9,2501n/a

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.

Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural FoundationIL34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural Foundation · Hfs Chicago Scholars · The Chicago Community Trust · WP & HB White Foundation · Kavanaugh Family Foundation · The Cuneo Foundation · Marquette Bank Education Foundation · The Canning Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Daniel P Haerther Charitable Trust · Fred J Brunner Foundation · Goldenberg Max Tw M G Foundation

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.

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About Link Unlimited Scholars

How much does Link Unlimited Scholars give?
Link Unlimited Scholars reported 22 itemized grants totaling $921,353, out of $944,415 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Link Unlimited Scholars fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Link Unlimited Scholars's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Marian Catholic ($134k), De Lasalle Institute ($88k), Marist High School ($86k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Link Unlimited Scholars?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural Foundation, Hfs Chicago Scholars, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Link Unlimited Scholars based?
Link Unlimited Scholars is based in IL.

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 22 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $300k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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