· Private foundation
R D Cundiff Scholarship Trust Dtd 10121
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of R D CUNDIFF SCHOLARSHIP TRUST DTD 10121’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKELAND COLLEGE | $27,525 |
| PARKLAND COLLEGE | $23,600 |
| EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $18,825 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA | $16,900 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILL | $5,775 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE | $4,350 |
| AURORA UNIVERSITY | $4,350 |
| ILLINOIS COLLEGE | $4,350 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,850 |
| ST JOHN'S COLLEGE NEW MEXICO | $1,925 |
| BALL STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,925 |
| LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,925 |
| QUINCY UNIVERSITY | $1,925 |
| ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY | $1,925 |
| SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $1,925 |
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PCPARKLAND COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $77k
- LCLAKELAND COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $73k
- EIEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $64k
Funded once
- MUMILLIKIN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -26%
- MSMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $6k
- OCOLNEY CENTRAL COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Mount marty university, an academic community in the catholic benedictine liberal arts tradition, prepares students for a contemporary world of work, service to the human community, and personal growth. the institution is a private,…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Wesleyan University and the most unlike its peers is Quincy University Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 47 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 AURORA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
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: Ibm International Foundation · Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Brent Taylor Perpetual Char Trust Mercantile Bank Trustee · Culver's Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Edward Jones Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 R D Cundiff Scholarship Trust Dtd 10121 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.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 2% of income from government
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.