· Public charity
Scholarship Fund of the University Club of Palo Alto
To make college scholarships available for deserving local high school students that are not affiliated with the organization.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL | $27,122 |
| UC DAVIS | $24,186 |
| UC BERKELEY | $15,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $13,755 |
| UC SANTA BARBARA | $12,686 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANISCO | $12,000 |
| UC SAN DIEGO | $8,200 |
| SAN JOSE STATE | $6,890 |
| CAL STATE SACRAMENTO | $6,000 |
| HAMPTON UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| UC IRVINE | $6,000 |
| RENSSELAER POLTECHNIC INS | $6,000 |
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY5× · 2021–2025 · $117k
University of San Francisco5× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue -3%- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS2× · 2024–2025 · $48k
Funded once
- CPCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $22k
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- AEAscendium Education Group Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +260%
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.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Education and Research
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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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Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
How this is measured
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 22 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.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Scholarship Fund of the University Club of Palo Alto funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scholarship Fund of the University Club of Palo Alto. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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