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Marion D Herriott Schlrshp Fd Char

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$49k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$664kCrime & Legal$5kScience & Tech$4kReligion$2k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $98k
$7,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WVU POTOMAC STATE COLLEGE$49,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY$24,500
FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY$14,000
CONCORD UNIVERSITY$10,500
FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY$7,000
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$7,000
MARSHALL UNIVERSITY$7,000
SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY$3,500
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY$3,500
GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY$3,500
PRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE$3,500
EASTERN WV COMM & TECH$3,500
GARRETT COLLEGE$3,500
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $2k → 14%PRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 10%TIFFIN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 12%SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%EASTERN WV COMM & TECH: $4k → 13%WVU POTOMAC STATE COLLEGE: $49k → 16%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 19%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY AT PARKERSBURG: $2k → 19%MARSHALL UNIVERSITY: $7k → 19%SALEM UNIVERSITY: $4k → 20%CONCORD UNIVERSITY: $11k → 21%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $7k → 20%GARRETT COLLEGE: $4k → 15%GARRETT COLLEGE: $2k → 18%SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 7%TIFFIN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY & TECH: $2k → 13%POTOMAC STATE COLLEGE: $27k → 16%WVU COLLEGE OF LAW: $4k → 19%MARSHALL UNIVERSITY: $4k → 19%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $4k → 20%GARRETT COLLEGE: $2k → 15%FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 18%SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 7%POTOMAC STATE COLLEGE: $12k → 16%WVU COLLEGE OF LAW: $2k → 19%MARSHALL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $3k → 20%SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 7%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%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

NH
OH
PA
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$458k · 15 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
19

Total granted

$458k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-1%

Still filing today

20%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • LU
    LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +22%
  • SN
    Southern New Hampshire University
    4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +25%
  • TU
    Tiffin University
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • SU
    SALEM UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • GU
    GLENVILLE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • EW
    EASTERN WM COMM & TECH
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 38 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)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $140,000 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITYPOTOMAC STATE COLLEGE: $81,000 · OtherPOTOMAC STATE COLLEGESHEPHERD UNIVERSITY: $66,500 · OtherSHEPHERD UNIVERSITYFAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY: $61,500 · OtherFAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITYWVU POTOMAC STATE COLLEGE: $49,000 · OtherWVU POTOMAC STATE COLLEGEFROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $20,500 · Other+25 more: $102,750 · Other+25 moreLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $17,000 · EducationLIBERTY U…Southern New Hampshire University: $13,500 · EducationSouthern …Tiffin University: $5,000 · EducationTiffin Un…Grand Canyon University: $3,500 · EducationGrand Can…GLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · EducationGLENVILLE…+2 more: $3,000 · Education+2 more
Other$521,250Education$45,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTiffin University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $1,500 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 ↗
  • Who funds Southern New Hampshire University ↗
  • Who funds Tiffin University ↗
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
  • Who funds GLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marion D Herriott Schlrshp Fd Char funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marion D Herriott Schlrshp Fd Char. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 38 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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