· Private foundation
O'Brien-Vrba Scholarship Tuw
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $206k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWMAN CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER | $11,039 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIV FBO ASHLIN OWEN | $7,000 |
| WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIV FBO REAGAN VANDER | $7,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIV FBO LOREAN | $7,000 |
| UNIV OF ILLINOIS FBO BENJAMIN FOLGERS | $7,000 |
| PURDUE UNIV FBO KARA BAKER | $7,000 |
| UNIV OF ILLINOIS FBO QUENTIN MORGAN | $7,000 |
| ST CATHERINE UNIV FBO FELICITY LAMB | $7,000 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIV FBO MICHAL | $7,000 |
| DEPAUL MINISTRY CENTER | $7,000 |
| UNIV OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE FBO LAURA | $7,000 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV EDWARDSVILLE FBO | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| LOURDES UNIV FBO EMMA CARR | $7,000 |
| EDGEWOOD COLLEGE FBO DANIELLE TOMPKINS | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNEWMAN CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER4× · 2022–2025 · $88k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2022–2024 · $35k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2022–2024 · $35k
Funded once
- SASCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCone grant, 2019 · $177k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $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.
1 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. 1 of the 93 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization O'Brien-Vrba Scholarship Tuw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from O'Brien-Vrba Scholarship Tuw. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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