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Ruth W & Alice I Chamberlin Scholarship Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$29k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$45k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY$2,000
Marian University$1,000
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.

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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12k · 5 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$12k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+19%

Still filing today

40%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • BU
    BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2025 · $3k
  • HC
    Hartwick College
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +2%
  • KC
    KEUKA COLLEGE
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +45%
  • SC
    SUNY CORTLAND
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • BT
    BROOME TIOGA BOCES
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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

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.

1
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
3
Macalester College

Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
6
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
7
Mercyhurst University

Rooted in our Mercy Catholic liberal arts identity, we educate and inspire diverse learners in an environment where faith and reason flourish together for meaningful lives, dignified work, and leadership in service toward a just and loving…

Education
8
Daemen University

Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…

Education
9
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
10
Benedictine University

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…

Education
11
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
12
Erskine College and Theological Seminary

Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elmira College; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 21 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · OtherBINGHAMTON UNIVERSITYBROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2,200 · OtherBROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGESUNY BROCKPORT: $2,000 · OtherSUNY BROCKPORTSUNY CORTLAND: $1,100 · OtherSUNY CORTLANDBROOME TIOGA BOCES: $1,100 · OtherBROOME TIOGA BOCESALFRED STATE COLLEGE: $1,100 · OtherALFRED STATE COLLEGESUNY DELHI UNIVERSITY: $1,100 · OtherSUNY DELHI UNIVERSITYTOMPKINS CORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,100 · OtherTOMPKINS CORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGESUNY Albany: $1,100 · OtherSUNY AlbanyIndividual grant recipient: $1,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUniversity at Buffalo: $1,000 · OtherUniversity at BuffaloSummit University: $1,000 · OtherSummit UniversitySUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $1,000 · OtherSUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEHartwick College: $2,200 · EducationHartwick CollegeKEUKA COLLEGE: $2,200 · EducationKEUKA COLLEGEWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,100 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $1,100 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteELMIRA COLLEGE: $1,100 · EducationELMIRA COLLEGED'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1,100 · EducationD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITYLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGEMARIAN UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 · EducationMARIAN UNIVERSITY INC
Other$17,900Education$10,800

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 budgetHartwick College: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELMIRA COLLEGE: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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 Hartwick College ↗
  • Who funds KEUKA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗

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.

Jessie H Baker Educational FundNY15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jessie H Baker Educational Fund · Gunglach Scho Tr · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ruth W & Alice I Chamberlin Scholarship Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth W & Alice I Chamberlin Scholarship Tr. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 21 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-PF 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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