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Macricostas Scholarship Trust Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$322kEnvironment$625
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,750
Median grant
10
States reached
$94k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF ALEENA JACOB$2,875
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ON BEHALF OF CONNIE CAI$2,875
FASHION INSTITUTE OF DESIGN AND MERCHANDISING ON BEHALF OF NATALIE CHATERGO$2,750
MCGILL UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF RAYMOND SHU$2,750
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF CADEN CRITES$2,625
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO ON BEHALF OF KATE GREEN$2,500
TEXAS A&M ON BEHALF OF ERIN NICOLE GALICHA$2,375
SUNY ON BEHALF OF SAMANTHA BAUD$2,250
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF DYLAN BELILNGER$2,125
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON ON BEHALF OF YUBEEN KIM$2,000
UNION UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF DIANA SQUIRES$2,000
CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF MORGAN SUTTILE$1,875
SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST ON BEHALF OF WON-BIN KIM$1,875
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT ON BEHALF OF LAUREN BURTON$1,750
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO ON BEHALF OF MICHAELA GREEN$1,750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%SMITH COLLEGE ON BEHALF OF SAMANTHA BAUD: $3k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF ALEENA JACOB: $3k → 16%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF RYAN CALDWELL: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO ON BEHALF OF KATE GREEN: $3k → 16%VANGUARD UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF DAVID SQUIRES: $2k → 10%FASHION INSTITUTE OF DESIGN AND MERCHANDISING ON BEHALF OF NATALIE CHATERGO: $3k → 14%UC DAVIS ON BEHALF OF MADHUSHA GOONESEKERA: $4k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY ON BEHALF OF DALTON RIFENBURG: $2k → 11%PRATT INSTITUTE ON BEHALF OF CATHERINE CHATTERGOON: $3k → 20%RICE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF ANNIE CHEN: $3k → 16%TEXAS A&M ON BEHALF OF NURA MOGHARRABI: $3k → 22%ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF MARIAH SQUIRES: $2k → 15%WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF TATIANA RODRIGUEZ: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT ON BEHALF OF MOHIT PALET: $3k → 11%UNION UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF DIANA SQUIRES: $2k → 15%ELON UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF ERINA PIRI: $2k → 13%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF ADAM VANOTTI: $2k → 7%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF PHOEBE CHU: $3k → 19%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF ALEENA JACOB: $3k → 16%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF RYAN CALDWELL: $3k → 8%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF MATTHEW HANNEQUIN: $2k → 11%FASHION INSTITUTE OF DESIGN AND MERCHANDISING ON BEHALF OF NATALIE CHATERGO: $3k → 14%UC DAVIS ON BEHALF OF HIMASHI GOONESEKERA: $3k → 16%PRATT INSTITUTE ON BEHALF OF CATHERINE CHATTERGOON: $3k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ON BEHALF OF CONNIE CAI: $3k → 10%RICE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF ANNIE CHEN: $3k → 16%TEXAS A&M ON BEHALF OF ARIAN MOGHARRABI: $3k → 22%WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF TATIANA RODRIGUEZ: $2k → 9%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF ALEENA JACOB: $3k → 16%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF TANNER POLLOCK: $3k → 8%FASHION INSTITUTE OF DESIGN AND MERCHANDISING ON BEHALF OF NATALIE CHATERGO: $2k → 14%UC DAVIS ON BEHALF OF MADHUSHA GOONESEKERA: $3k → 16%PRATT INSTITUTE ON BEHALF OF CATHERINE CHATTERGOON: $3k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ON BEHALF OF CONNIE CAI: $3k → 10%RICE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF ANNIE CHEN: $3k → 16%TEXAS A&M ON BEHALF OF NURA MOGHARRABI: $3k → 22%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF RYAN CALDWELL: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ON BEHALF OF CONNIE CAI: $3k → 10%TEXAS A&M ON BEHALF OF JOSEPH MATTHEW: $3k → 22%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF CADEN CRITES: $3k → 8%TEXAS A&M ON BEHALF OF NURA MOGHARRABI: $3k → 22%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF MADELINE HOOYBOER: $3k → 8%TEXAS A&M ON BEHALF OF JOSEPH MATTHEW: $3k → 22%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF MADELINE HOOYBOER: $3k → 8%TEXAS A&M ON BEHALF OF ARIAN MOGHARRABI: $3k → 22%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF MADELINE HOOYBOER: $2k → 8%TEXAS A&M ON BEHALF OF ERIN NICOLE GALICHA: $2k → 22%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF DYLAN BELILNGER: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$300k · 62 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

62 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
19

Total granted

$300k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+209%

Still filing today

3%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PI
    PRATT INSTITUTE ON BEHALF OF CATHERINE CHATTERGOON
    5× · 2020–2024 · $11k
  • RU
    RICE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF ANNIE CHEN
    5× · 2018–2022 · $11k
  • BS
    BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF RYAN CALDWELL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $10k

Funded once

  • SC
    SMITH COLLEGE ON BEHALF OF SAMANTHA BAUD
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • DU
    DUQUESNE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ON BEHALF OF ANDREW LENDACKY
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ON BEHALF OF BREANNA ALONZO
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 88 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
3/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRATT INSTITUTE ON BEHALF OF CATHERINE CHATTERGOON: $10,750 · OtherRICE UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF ANNIE CHEN: $10,750 · Other+84 more: $297,001 · Other+84 moreLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $3,250 · EducationUnity Environmental University: $625 · Education
Other$318,501Education$3,875

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAUGATUCK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,875 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUnity Environmental University: $625 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Macricostas Scholarship Trust Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Macricostas Scholarship Trust Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Macricostas Scholarship Trust Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Macricostas Scholarship Trust Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 88 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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