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Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund

To help individuals facing socio-economic hardships further their education at post secondary institutions by providing them with educational scholarships and related educational support services and experiences to ensure their path towards success.

$1.8M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Philanthropy$3.0MEducation$1.9MYouth Development$413kCommunity Improvement$19k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $1,500,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,815,251 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $315,251 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$1,500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,500,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%LINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 6%Investing in OUrselves: $19k → 22%LINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $16k → 10%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 14%STONEYBROOK STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY: $7k → 7%Iona College: $7k → 9%SUNY - BUFFALO STATE UNIVERSITY: $14k → 13%SUNY - UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $14k → 14%THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK: $5k → 17%BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1.5M → 20%RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL: $15k → 28%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $11k → 14%Clara Lionel Foundation: $3.0M → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $275k → 13%CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 19%BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%LINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 10%STONEYBROOK STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY: $6k → 7%SUNY - UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $11k → 14%CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $37k → 17%BROOKLYN COLLEGE: $13k → 20%RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL: $8k → 28%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $9k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $138k → 13%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $14k → 14%BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%LINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $9k → 10%CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $22k → 17%CUNY Brooklyn College: $8k → 20%Spelman College: $6k → 13%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $7k → 14%CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $20k → 17%CUNY Medgar Evers College: $7k → 20%Clark Atlanta University: $6k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
LA
GA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$739k · 10 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
16

Total granted

$739k
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+40%

Still filing today

40%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $413k · revenue +5%
  • LU
    LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +6%
  • RC
    RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue -54%
  • II
    INVESTING IN OURSELVES
    one grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue -66%
  • VS
    VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +286%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
10
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
11
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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12
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln University and the most unlike its peers is Brooklyn Public Library. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATIONBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $1,500,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY+11 more — $102,250 · Education+11 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $412,500 · Youth DevelopmentVIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $82,000 · OtherCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK — $79,625 · OtherLINCOLN UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · OtherHAMPTON UNIVERSITY — $35,250 · OtherSUNY - UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY — $24,500 · OtherINVESTING IN OURSELVES — $18,738 · OtherSUNY - BUFFALO STATE UNIVERSITY — $13,500 · OtherSTONEYBROOK STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY — $13,000 · OtherBROOKLYN COLLEGE — $12,500 · Other+4 more — $31,000 · Other
Philanthropy$3,000,000Education$1,602,250Youth Development$412,500Other$350,113

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $412,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated — $9,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College — $5,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc — $5,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN UNIVERSITY — $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC11.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Delaware State University — 18% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund?

Find your warmest path to Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $572k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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