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MC Scholarship Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$11k
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$272kRecreation & Sports$11k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$808k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mississippi Valley State University$11,250
The Taft School$10,000
Yale University$10,000
University of North Florida$6,000
Episcopal School of Jacksonville$4,500
Sail Newport$1,500
IYRS School of Technology and Trade$1,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%Northeastern University Annual Givi: $6k → 16%Moravian Academy: $10k → 11%Moranian Academy Upper School: $12k → 11%Vassar College: $6k → 9%The General Theological Seminary: $800 → 17%University of Central Arkansas: $5k → 15%Bishop John T Walker School for Boy: $3k → 14%San Jose Episcopal Day School: $4k → 14%University of Virginia Medical Scho: $6k → 9%The Taft School: $20k → 9%Sail Newport: $3k → 7%Brown University: $6k → 14%Mississippi Valley State University: $11k → 34%Virginia Theological Seminary: $1k → 9%Northeastern University: $6k → 16%Vassar College: $5k → 9%Bishop John T Walker School for Boy: $1k → 14%University of North Florida: $6k → 14%The Taft School: $11k → 9%Sail Newport: $2k → 7%Brown University: $5k → 14%Bishop John T Walker School for Boy: $1k → 14%The Cathedral School: $8k → 14%The Taft School: $10k → 9%Sail Newport: $2k → 7%The Cathedral School: $5k → 14%The Taft School: $10k → 9%Sail Newport: $2k → 7%St Johns Cathedral School: $4k → 14%The Taft School: $10k → 9%Sail Newport: $2k → 7%Florida State College of Jacksonvil: $4k → 14%The Taft School: $8k → 9%Sail Newport: $1k → 7%Episcopal School of Jacksonville: $7k → 14%IYRS School of Technology and Trade: $1k → 7%Episcopal School of Jacksonville: $5k → 14%Episcopal School of Jacksonville: $5k → 14%Episcopal School of Jacksonville: $4k → 14%Episcopal School of Jacksonville: $4k → 14%Episcopal School of Jacksonville: $3k → 14%Florida State College - South Campu: $2k → 14%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

NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
RI
VA
AR
DC
MS
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$185k · 7 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$185k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+32%

Still filing today

43%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • TT
    THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +106%
  • ES
    EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +22%
  • SN
    SAIL NEWPORT
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • MA
    Moranian Academy Upper School
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
  • MA
    MORAVIAN ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +0%
  • UO
    University of Virginia Medical Scho
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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
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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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
4
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
5
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
6
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
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
Regis College

Regis college, through education in the arts, sciences, and professions empowers women and men to challenge themselves academically, to serve and to lead. a catholic college, regis is a diverse and welcoming community guided by the values…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
12
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Sail Newport. 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

8 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. 8 of the 24 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)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY: $51,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYThe Cathedral School: $13,000 · OtherThe Cathedral SchoolMoranian Academy Upper School: $11,750 · OtherMoranian Academy Upper SchoolMISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $11,250 · OtherMISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYVASSAR COLLEGE: $10,250 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEYALE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYMORAVIAN ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherMORAVIAN ACADEMYUniversity of North Florida: $6,000 · OtherUniversity of Virginia Medical Scho: $6,000 · OtherNortheastern University Annual Givi: $5,625 · Other+8 more: $24,050 · Other+8 moreTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $69,000 · EducationTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATIONEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $26,950 · EducationEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE INCNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5,500 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYSAIL NEWPORT: $10,500 · Recreation & SportsBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,375 · Community ImprovementIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$158,925Education$101,450Recreation & Sports$10,500Community Improvement$10,375Arts & Culture$1,000

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 budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $69,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $26,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL NEWPORT: $10,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORAVIAN ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $1,000 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 THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAIL NEWPORT ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MORAVIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 MC Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MC Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
⤢ 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 24 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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