· Private foundation
Lord Educational Fund
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| OLNEY CENTRAL COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| OSU OFFICE OF THE UNIV BURSUR | $5,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD | $5,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $5,500 |
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 (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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.
How this is measured
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 56 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 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 ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLACKBURN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lord Educational Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lord Educational Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
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