· Private foundation
Lord Educational Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $30,000 |
| MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $13,500 |
| LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,500 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $9,000 |
| LAKE LAND COLLEGE | $6,600 |
| MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| BUTLER COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| OSU OFFICE OF THE UNIV BURSUR | $5,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD | $5,500 |
| OLNEY CENTRAL COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
44 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 6 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SISOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2023 · $59k · revenue +105%
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2022 · $28k · revenue +18%
- SCSTEPHENS COLLEGE4× · 2021–2024 · $27k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- FSFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $7k
- TTTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $5k
- PMPAUL MITCHELL THE SCHOOL - NORMALone grant, 2020 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
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.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
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.
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
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…
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…
Lourdes university, rooted in catholic and franciscan traditions, provides a values-centered education that enriches lives and advances academic excellence through the integration of the liberal arts and professional studies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis University and the most unlike its peers is Southern Illinois University Alumni Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STEPHENS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗
- Who funds McKendree University ↗
- Who funds LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MACMURRAY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLACKBURN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: John R Lucash Scholarship Trust · Ibm International Foundation · William Edgar Charitable Foundation · Tammy Stratman Brown Charities · United Way Worldwide · Louis and Temple Marsch Charitable Trust · Swope Memorial Loan Fund · George & Hazel Barber Scholarship Trust · Pittsfield High School Class of 1954 Scholarship Fund Inc · Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc · Monticello College Foundation · Marquette Bank Education Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lord Educational Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.