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Print & Graphics Scholarship Foundation

Financial aid for graphic arts education.

$664k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$107kEmployment$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $74,928, the rows itemized in this filing. The $664,169 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $589,241 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,995
Median grant
11
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rochester Institute of Technology$8,900
Illinois State University$7,500
Cal Poly State University$7,500
University of Wisconsin-Stout$7,500
Carrollton Area Career Center$7,295
Ferris State University$6,995
Central Connecticut State University$6,500
Lenoir Community College$6,366
South Shore Technical High School$6,295
Pittsburg State University$5,055
Bowling Green State University$5,022
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%South Shore Technical High School: $6k → 8%Lewis-Clark State College: $6k → 11%Cal Poly State University: $8k → 12%Rochester Institute of Technology: $9k → 14%Women's Press Collective: $14k → 28%Irving High School: $9k → 14%Midlands Technical College: $8k → 11%Western Michigan University: $8k → 12%Saline Schools: $6k → 14%Ferris State University: $7k → 20%Pittsburg State University: $10k → 18%Carrollton Area Career Center: $7k → 14%University of Wisconsin-Stout: $8k → 11%Lenoir Community College: $6k → 21%Salt Lake Community College: $6k → 8%Bowling Green State University: $5k → 12%Cuyahoga Valley Career Center: $5k → 17%Indian Valley Vocational Center: $8k → 13%North Point High School: $7k → 8%Cal Poly State University: $8k → 12%Rochester Institute of Technology: $6k → 14%Women's Press Collective: $10k → 28%Pittsburg State University: $5k → 18%California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo: $7k → 12%Rochester Institute of Technology: $5k → 14%Women's Press Collective: $10k → 28%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

ID
IL
MI
NY
IA
OH
CA
UT
MD
KS
SC
TX
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105k · 5 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$105k
$71k

Still filing today

60%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $34k
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    3× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +10%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue -13%

Funded once

  • II
    IRVING INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
  • MT
    MIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • WM
    WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 23 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)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $34,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,055 · OtherPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITYIRVING INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $9,187 · OtherMIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $8,355 · OtherWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $7,725 · OtherBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $7,500 · OtherINDIAN VALLEY VOCATIONAL CENTER: $7,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,495 · OtherCHARLES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $7,400 · OtherCARROLLTON AREA CAREER CENTER: $7,295 · OtherFERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY: $6,995 · OtherCentral Connecticut State University: $6,500 · OtherLEWIS-CLARK STATE COLLEGE: $6,429 · OtherLENOIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6,366 · OtherSouth Shore Tech High School: $6,295 · Other+4 more: $21,522 · Other+4 moreRochester Institute of Technology: $20,483 · EducationRochester Institute of Tech…UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA…CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STAT…
Other$173,119Education$55,483

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $20,483 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 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 Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

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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 Print & Graphics Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Print & Graphics Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 23 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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