Minnesota · Public charity
Scholarship America Inc
(see schedule o)
- $28M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of Scholarship America Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Heritage Fund - The Community Foundation Of Bartholomew County Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $54,478
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $336,882
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $312M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Scholarship America Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $137k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $106k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $122k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $144k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $654k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $118k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevis Pam Lindow Scholarship Founda | $551,906 | 1 | n/a |
| Johnsburg Dollars for Scholars | $143,672 | 1 | n/a |
| City of South Portland | $117,690 | 1 | n/a |
| Apw Alumni Inc | $112,691 | 1 | n/a |
| Bellevue Rotary Foundation | $84,353 | 1 | 28% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $66,360 | 1 | n/a |
| Sea Mar Community Health Centers | $50,580 | 1 | 0% |
| Ada-Borup-West Isd 2910 | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ada Scholarship Foundation Inc | $44,702 | 1 | 24% |
| Regional School Unit 50 Southern Aroostook Scholarship Fund | $33,705 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevis Pam Lindow Scholarship Founda | $551,906 | 1 | n/a |
| Johnsburg Dollars for Scholars | $143,672 | 1 | n/a |
| City of South Portland | $117,690 | 1 | n/a |
| Apw Alumni Inc | $112,691 | 1 | n/a |
| Bellevue Rotary Foundation | $84,353 | 1 | 28% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $66,360 | 1 | n/a |
| Sea Mar Community Health Centers | $50,580 | 1 | 0% |
| Ada-Borup-West Isd 2910 | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ada Scholarship Foundation Inc | $44,702 | 1 | 24% |
| Regional School Unit 50 Southern Aroostook Scholarship Fund | $33,705 | 1 | n/a |
| Town of Burlington | $27,983 | 1 | n/a |
| Blackduck Independent School | $27,552 | 1 | n/a |
| Minot Area Community Foundation | $23,938 | 1 | n/a |
| White Hall Enrichment Advancement Team | $17,607 | 1 | 0% |
| East Irondequoit Central School District | $15,886 | 1 | n/a |
| Shaftsbury Fire Department | $15,191 | 1 | n/a |
| Independent School District # 786 | $10,003 | 1 | n/a |
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: Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc · The Funders Network Inc · Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Inc · Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Inatai Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Scholarship America Inc
- How much does Scholarship America Inc give?
- Scholarship America Inc reported 15 itemized grants totaling $1,554,103, out of $27,810,640 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Scholarship America Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (91%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Scholarship America Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nevis Pam Lindow Scholarship Founda ($552k), Johnsburg Dollars for Scholars ($144k), City of South Portland ($118k).
- Does Scholarship America Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Scholarship America Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc, The Funders Network Inc, Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Inc.
- Where is Scholarship America Inc based?
- Scholarship America Inc is based in MN.
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