· Private foundation
Rose Spurrier Scholarship Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,800 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,800 |
| FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY | $3,800 |
| BARTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $3,750 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,150 |
| HUTCHINSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,800 |
| NEWMAN UNIVERSITY | $2,800 |
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS | $2,400 |
| PRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,750 |
| STERLING COLLEGE | $1,400 |
| NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,400 |
| CLOUD COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,400 |
| LEE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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 +31% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NUNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +10%
- FUFriends University3× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +43%
- FUFREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- NCNORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $3k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMAone grant, 2022 · $2k
- BCBETHANY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -4%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends University and the most unlike its peers is Newman University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 48 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 STERLING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends University ↗
- Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Tabor College ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Christian University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF KANSAS ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
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: Kansas Independent College Association · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Tulsa Community Foundation · Hilda Smith Permanent Scholarship Endowment · S T & Mabel I Nuttycomb Charitable Trust No 2 · Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust · Farmers Alliance Companies Charitable Foundation · Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust · Jellison Benevolent Society Inc · The Pete Henry Foundation
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 Rose Spurrier Scholarship Fund 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.
- The University of Tulsa — 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.
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