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Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$675k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
71%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$674,898
Largest grant, FY2024
$674,898
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 71% of the organizations Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$675k100%
FY20237$24k71%
FY20226$30k50%
FY20216$27k33%
FY20208$28k0%
FY20198$26k38%
FY201812$34k50%
FY201711$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$875kReligion$2kArts & Culture$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc$27,255712%
School District of Superior$10,26241%
St Catherine University$6,00010%
Luther College$3,00010%
Mount Mary University Inc$3,00010%
College of St Scholastica Inc$3,00010%
St Norbert College Inc$3,00010%
Johnson County Community College$2,0001n/a
Ithaca College$2,0001n/a
Crown College$2,00010%
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All grantees of Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc$27,255712%
School District of Superior$10,26241%
St Catherine University$6,00010%
Luther College$3,00010%
Mount Mary University Inc$3,00010%
College of St Scholastica Inc$3,00010%
St Norbert College Inc$3,00010%
Johnson County Community College$2,0001n/a
Ithaca College$2,0001n/a
Crown College$2,00010%
Marian University Inc$1,00010%
Bethel University$1,00010%

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($815k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc: $27,255 over 7y, 12% of budgetSchool District of Superior: $10,262 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSt Catherine University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLuther College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Mary University Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of St Scholastica Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Norbert College Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrown College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarian University Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethel University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr

How much does Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr give?
Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr reported 1 grants totaling $674,898 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%), Religion (0%), Arts & Culture (0%).
Who are Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc ($27k), School District of Superior ($10k), St Catherine University ($6k).
Does Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr based?
Ohara John and Blanche Scholarship Tr is based in MI.

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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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