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Montgomery County Scholarships Inc at a glance

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Montgomery County Scholarships Inc

Montgomery county scholarships, inc.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$928k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $387k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY$928,055
THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL$927,675
BENCHMARK SCHOOL$230,945
LITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS$188,910
GESU SCHOOL$184,000
DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$142,500
ST EDMUNDS ACADEMY$95,000
VALLEY FORGE MILITARY ACADEMY$94,000
ACTON ACADEMY PITTSBURGH$94,000
COLUMBIA COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$68,458
CENTER SCHOOL$52,725
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL$52,250
WOODLYNDE SCHOOL$50,350
MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL$47,000
BETH SHALOM CONGREGATION SCRANTON$38,000
02The need
02

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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MONTGOMERY SCHOOL: $24k → 6%CENTER SCHOOL: $53k → 7%LOGOS ACADEMY: $14k → 9%HAVERFORD SCHOOL: $33k → 10%ST EDMUNDS ACADEMY: $95k → 11%RIVER VALLEY NATURE SCHOOL: $14k → 11%BETH SHOLOM CONGREGATION: $48k → 13%COLUMBIA COUNTY CHRISTIAN: $95k → 14%YOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP: $20k → 6%CENTER SCHOOL: $22k → 7%THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $1.4M → 10%ST EDMUNDS ACADEMY: $67k → 11%BETH SHALOM CONGREGATION SCRANTON: $38k → 13%COLUMBIA COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $68k → 14%GESU SCHOOL: $184k → 22%VALLEY FORGE MILITARY ACADEMY: $188k → 6%HOLY CROSS REGIONAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $13k → 7%THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $928k → 10%AQUINAS ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH: $22k → 11%SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $928k → 22%VALLEY FORGE MILITARY ACADEMY: $94k → 6%ANCILLAE-ASSUMPTA ACADEMY: $33k → 7%JACK BARRACK HEBREW SCHOOL: $14k → 10%PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $28k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $52k → 22%WOODLYNDE SCHOOL: $89k → 6%GERMANTOWN ACADEMY: $340k → 7%BALDWIN SCHOOL: $10k → 10%ACTON ACADEMY PITTSBURGH: $94k → 11%SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACAD: $644k → 22%WOODLYNDE SCHOOL: $50k → 6%AIM ACADEMY: $22k → 7%WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $10k → 11%CRISTO REY: $12k → 22%HORIZONS GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $30k → 6%BENCHMARK SCHOOL: $231k → 10%THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $28k → 22%YSC ACADEMY: $9k → 6%BENCHMARK SCHOOL: $215k → 10%CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 22%DELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS SCHOOL: $38k → 6%DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $143k → 10%MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $47k → 6%DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN: $48k → 10%LITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $189k → 22%VILLA MARIA ACADEMY LOWER SCHOOL: $10k → 6%PENN CHARTER: $15k → 22%WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL: $14k → 22%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.
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 7 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$4.7M
$769k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & 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

  • SS
    SHIPLEY SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +12%
  • SC
    SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +7%
  • BS
    Benchmark School
    2× · 2024–2025 · $446k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN
    one grant, 2024 · $340k · revenue +10%
  • VF
    VALLEY FORGE MILITARY ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $188k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $95k
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
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
2
Perkiomen School

A coeducational, college preparatory school serving students in grades 6-12 with a mission of "inspiring students to risk being their best".

Education
3
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
4
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
5
Episcopal Academy

Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.

Education
6
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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7
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
8
Concord Academy

Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…

Education
9
The Christian Academy

The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.

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10
Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science Inc

The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.

Education
11
Presbyterian Day School

Presbyterian day school strives to glorify god by developing boys in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and men.

Education
12
School One

Creative, collaborative, and college preparatory, school one students write with purpose and participate actively. each student is well-known and valued for their emerging strengths. small by design for 50 years, classes average nine…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Woodlynde School Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Candid. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 45 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
9/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $2,320,470 · EducationSHIPLEY SCHOOLSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $1,572,435 · EducationSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMYTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN: $339,751 · EducationTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWNTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $184,000 · Education+16 more: $722,468 · Education+16 moreBenchmark School: $445,930 · OtherBenchmark SchoolVALLEY FORGE MILITARY ACADEMY: $188,000 · OtherVALLEY FORGE MILITARY A…ST EDMUND'S ACADEMY: $161,500 · OtherST EDMUND'S ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…ACTON ACADEMY PITTSBURGH: $94,000 · OtherACTON ACADEMY PITTSBURG…CENTER SCHOOL: $74,290 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $47,500 · OtherBETH SHOLOM CONGREGATION: $47,500 · Other+13 more: $255,610 · Other+13 moreCANDID: $188,910 · PhilanthropyTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $27,600 · Arts & CultureYOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP: $20,240 · Youth DevelopmentPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC: $9,200 · Recreation & Sports
Education$5,139,124Other$1,409,330Philanthropy$188,910Arts & Culture$27,600Youth Development$20,240Recreation & Sports$9,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL: $2,320,470 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $1,572,435 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBenchmark School: $445,930 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN: $339,751 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANDID: $188,910 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $184,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetST EDMUND'S ACADEMY: $161,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY: $142,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION: $139,650 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVALLEY FORGE MILITARY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $94,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER SCHOOL: $74,290 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $68,458 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $52,250 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $47,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $33,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $27,260 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY SCHOOL: $23,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP: $20,240 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $14,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY: $14,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOGOS ACADEMY: $14,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYSC ACADEMY: $9,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC: $9,200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Business Leadership O…Central Pennsylvania …The Philadelphia Foun…Lincoln Financial Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…Henkels FoundationThe Maguire FoundationThe Cedarcrest Charit…The William Penn Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…Citizens Charitable F…Chubb Charitable Foun…
Business Leadership Organized for Catholic SchoolsPA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Montgomery County Scholarships Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Montgomery County Scholarships Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 45 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 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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