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Rob Koranda Scholarship Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY - SYDNI FINK | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - ASHLEY KUSHNER | $7,500 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY - ALEX BARGER | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESEE - MATTHEW MURPHY | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - JACOB SCHARM | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESEE - CAMERON DECOOK | $7,500 |
| STETSON UNIVERSITY - JULIAN SAMPSON | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - JILLIAN CARROLL | $7,500 |
Where the grant dollars land
Across the US and around the world.
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VUVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY - MICHAEL BRUEBACH4× · 2019–2022 · $30k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWA - JACOB SCHARM2× · 2023–2024 · $23k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWA - ASHLEY KUSHNER3× · 2022–2024 · $23k
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - ERIC CHENone grant, 2023 · $28k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWA - JULIAN SAMPSONone grant, 2022 · $8k
- NUNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - CLAIRE HILBURGERone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2024.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 26 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.
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