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Margaret Holland Scholarship Fund Co First at a glance

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Margaret Holland Scholarship Fund Co First

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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$522kHealth$22kRecreation & Sports$750Other$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA$9,500
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY -IDAHO$7,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$7,000
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE$6,500
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$6,500
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$5,750
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY$4,200
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$3,250
University of North Carolina at Wilmingt$3,075
The Citadel$2,500
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON$2,000
University of North Carolina Greensboro$1,750
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $7k → 10%UMASS LOWEL: $9k → 8%BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY -IDAHO: $7k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $12k → 11%Buffalo State University: $6k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $13k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%OTTAWA UNIVERSITY: $11k → 10%University of North Carolina at Wilmingt: $5k → 12%blue ridge community college: $9k → 12%COASTAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6k → 12%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $11k → 26%Spelman College: $11k → 13%US AIR FORCE ACADEMY: $8k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA: $10k → 13%MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY: $12k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $18k → 8%EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY: $26k → 11%Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State: $12k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $8k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $5k → 10%UMASS LOWEL: $8k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $12k → 11%Buffalo State College: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $7k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $6k → 14%OTTAWA UNIVERSITY: $7k → 10%blue ridge community college: $9k → 12%COASTAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6k → 12%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $9k → 26%Spelman College: $7k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $13k → 8%Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State: $12k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $8k → 22%UMASS LOWEL: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $6k → 14%North Carolina Agricultural and Technica: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $12k → 8%Virginia Tech University: $7k → 21%UMASS LOWEL: $5k → 8%US TREASURY: $8k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $12k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $7k → 8%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

ID
ND
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
DE
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$475k · 34 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
13

Total granted

$475k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+5%

Still filing today

29%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
    2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +27%
  • SC
    Spelman College
    3× · 2018–2020 · $22k · revenue +4%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    3× · 2023–2025 · $22k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • EM
    Eastern Mennonite University
    one grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +5%
  • MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue 0%
  • SC
    Savannah College of Art and DesignInc
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +23%
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

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.

1
Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
3
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
6
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
7
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Mcdaniel College Inc

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…

Education
10
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
John Brown University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University; the most unlike its peers is Cutler Fb Wm & Mary College XXXXX4005. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 55 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $66,942 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $30,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINAIndividual grant recipient: $27,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEastern Mennonite University: $26,300 · OtherEastern Mennonite UniversityVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State: $23,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $23,000 · OtherUniversity of Michigan: $21,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $19,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA: $19,000 · Otherblue ridge community college: $18,828 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $17,000 · Other+31 more: $160,616 · Other+31 moreSpelman College: $22,000 · EducationSpelman CollegeOTTAWA UNIVERSITY: $21,000 · EducationOTTAWA UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $15,400 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMONDBRIDGEWATER COLLEGE: $13,000 · EducationBRIDGEWATER COLLEGEMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · EducationMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITYSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $12,000 · EducationSavannah College of Art…CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $11,250 · EducationCAMPBELL UNIVERSITYTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $4,100 · EducationUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $4,000 · Education+3 more: $2,625 · EducationNorthwestern University: $750 · Recreation & Sports
Other$454,336Education$117,375Recreation & Sports$750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEastern Mennonite University: $26,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $21,750 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetOTTAWA UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $15,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEWATER COLLEGE: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $11,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCUTLER FB WM & MARY COLLEGE XXXXX4005: $7,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $4,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $375 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 Eastern Mennonite University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds Spelman College ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds OTTAWA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
  • Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CUTLER FB WM & MARY COLLEGE XXXXX4005 ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Margaret Holland Scholarship Fund Co First funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret Holland Scholarship Fund Co First. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home