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Mario Pedrozzi Scholarship Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$445k
Granted FY2025still arriving
122
Grants FY2025still arriving
33
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$3.6MScience & Tech$21kRecreation & Sports$15kPhilanthropy$10kArts & Culture$6kHealth$3kCommunity Improvement$2k
02FY2025 · 122 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k111 grants · $228k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $216k
$1,250
Median grant
33
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Las Positas College$35,250
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo$26,500
University of California Los Angele$23,025
University of California Berkeley$22,250
University of California San Diego$19,000
University of California Santa Cruz$17,667
University of California Davis$17,584
University of California Irvine$14,250
University of California Santa Barb$14,000
California State University San Die$14,000
California State University San Jos$12,750
University of California Riverside$8,250
California State University Sacrame$7,500
University of Nevada Reno$7,500
Santa Clara University$7,500
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%University of California Irvine: $16k → 10%Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: $27k → 12%University of California Santa Cruz: $18k → 13%University of California Santa Barb: $16k → 14%Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: $26k → 12%University of California Santa Cruz: $16k → 13%University of California Santa Barb: $16k → 14%Brigham Young University - Provo: $16k → 8%Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: $26k → 12%University of California Santa Barbara: $15k → 14%California State University San Die: $15k → 11%Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: $24k → 12%Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: $24k → 12%Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: $23k → 12%Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: $23k → 12%Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: $23k → 12%Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: $22k → 12%University of California San Diego: $19k → 11%University of California San Diego: $19k → 11%University of California San Diego: $17k → 11%University of California San Diego: $17k → 11%University of California San Diego: $16k → 11%University of California San Diego: $16k → 11%University of California San Diego: $15k → 11%University of California San Diego: $15k → 11%University of California Berkeley: $44k → 10%University of California Berkeley: $34k → 10%University of California Los Angele: $23k → 14%University of California Berkeley: $30k → 10%University of California Berkeley: $30k → 10%University of California Los Angele: $22k → 14%University of California Berkeley: $29k → 10%University of California Berkeley: $27k → 10%University of California Los Angeles: $22k → 14%University of California Berkeley: $22k → 10%University of California Berkeley: $17k → 10%University of California Los Angele: $21k → 14%University of California Berkeley: $16k → 10%University of California Los Angele: $18k → 14%Las Positas College: $45k → 10%Las Positas College: $43k → 10%Las Positas College: $36k → 10%Las Positas College: $35k → 10%Las Positas College: $33k → 10%Las Positas College: $33k → 10%Las Positas College: $32k → 10%Las Positas College: $30k → 10%Las Positas College: $29k → 10%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 201 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

201 repeat relationships: 100 still active in FY2025, 101 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

201
77

Total granted

$3.4M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+9%

Still filing today

39%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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

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EducationArts & CultureRecreation & 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

  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +39%
  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +62%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of California Los Angeles
    one grant, 2022 · $22k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • CS
    California State University San Jose
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
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.

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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
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
3
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
4
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
5
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
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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
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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
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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
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Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
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University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
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Albright College

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

Education
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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of the Pacific; the most unlike its peers is Manhattan School of Music. 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

104 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. 104 of the 303 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
103/104
Grantees still filing
83/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Las Positas College: $313,750 · OtherLas Positas CollegeUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVIS: $260,084 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVISUniversity of California Berkeley: $249,750 · OtherUniversity of California BerkeleyCal Poly San Luis Obispo: $216,667 · OtherCal Poly San Luis ObispoUniversity of California San Diego: $145,500 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $138,075 · OtherCalifornia State University San Jos: $113,000 · OtherUniversity of California Santa Barb: $106,500 · OtherCalifornia State University San Die: $98,500 · Other+115 more: $1,296,209 · Other+115 morePRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $33,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF …SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $30,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $30,000 · EducationAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $28,500 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $27,500 · Education+67 more: $452,385 · Education+67 moreAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureBROWN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,938,035Education$601,635Philanthropy$10,000Recreation & Sports$9,000Arts & Culture$4,000Community Improvement$3,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $33,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $30,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $30,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $28,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $27,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $21,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $17,251 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $14,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College: $11,334 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $11,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $10,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSamuel Merritt University: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLinfield University: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 4y, 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 PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds University of San Francisco ↗

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.

Michael & Susan Dell …Folds of Honor Founda…National Collegiate A…Enterprise Holdings F…Oakmont Family FundThe Fletcher Jones Fo…Council of Independen…Foundation for Califo…Daniels FundIbm International Fou…Dale Krueger Scholars…Leo Adler Trust
Michael & Susan Dell FoundationTX23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Oakmont Family Fund · The Fletcher Jones Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Foundation for California Community Colleges · Daniels Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Dale Krueger Scholarship · Leo Adler Trust

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 Mario Pedrozzi Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mario Pedrozzi Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
  • Willamette University: 4% of income from government
  • Linfield University: 4% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • George Fox University: 3% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • University of Portland: 2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Southeastern University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 0% of income from government
  • Oral Roberts University: 0% of income from government
  • Babson College: 0% of income from government
  • Reed Institute: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report 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.
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How do I get to Mario Pedrozzi Scholarship Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mario Pedrozzi Scholarship Foundation 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 303 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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