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Samuel N Bemis Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$67,523
Largest grant, FY2025
$67,523
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Samuel N Bemis Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$68k0%
FY20241$60k0%
FY20231$62k0%
FY20222$70k50%
FY20211$59k0%
FY20201$77k100%
FY20197$44k14%
FY20188$64k25%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$584k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
MA
OH
RI
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges$384,69862%
University of Chicago$16,24830%
Springfield College$15,27030%
The Trustees of the Smith College$10,73620%
Trustees of Clark University$10,72020%
The George Washington University$10,26020%
Community College of Vermont - Montpelier$5,0901n/a
Trustees of Tufts College$5,07510%
President and Trustees of Bates College$2,94210%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Samuel N Bemis Scholarship Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges: $384,698 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $16,248 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpringfield College: $15,270 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $10,736 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Clark University: $10,720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $10,260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $5,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Trustees of Bates College: $2,942 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About Samuel N Bemis Scholarship Fund

How much does Samuel N Bemis Scholarship Fund give?
Samuel N Bemis Scholarship Fund reported 1 grants totaling $67,523 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Samuel N Bemis Scholarship Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Samuel N Bemis Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges ($385k), University of Chicago ($16k), Springfield College ($15k).
Does Samuel N Bemis Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Samuel N Bemis Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Samuel N Bemis Scholarship Fund based?
Samuel N Bemis Scholarship Fund is based in OH.

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 15 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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