· Public charity
Montgomery County Scholarships Inc
Montgomery county scholarships, inc.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $189k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $654k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL | $1,392,795 |
| SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACAD | $644,380 |
| GERMANTOWN ACADEMY | $339,751 |
| BENCHMARK SCHOOL | $214,985 |
| VALLEY FORGE MILITARY ACADEMY | $188,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $95,000 |
| WOODLYNDE SCHOOL | $89,300 |
| ST EDMUNDS ACADEMY | $66,500 |
| BETH SHOLOM CONGREGATION | $47,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $47,500 |
| MONTGOMERY SCHOOL | $23,750 |
| AIM ACADEMY | $21,620 |
| CENTER SCHOOL | $21,565 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,040 |
| CRISTO REY | $12,350 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery School and the most unlike its peers is Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN ↗
- Who funds Benchmark School ↗
- Who funds THE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST EDMUND'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds CENTER SCHOOL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · The Philadelphia Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Henkels Foundation · The Maguire Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The William Penn Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Montgomery County Scholarships Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.