· Private foundation
Rose Spurrier Scholarship Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CLOUD COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,400 |
| STERLING COLLEGE | $1,400 |
| NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,400 |
| LEE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
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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.
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Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 48 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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rose Spurrier Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rose Spurrier Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- The University of Tulsa: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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