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Scott and Hoffnagle Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$192kScience & Tech$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$39k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$20,000
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$7,500
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$7,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $20k → 10%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $8k → 9%THADDEUS STEVENS COLLEGE: $15k → 9%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $8k → 11%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%PA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 12%GROVE CITY COLLEGE: $5k → 13%CLARION UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%PENN STATE UNVIVERSITY: $18k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $10k → 10%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%THADDUES STEVENS COLLEGE: $13k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%PENN STATE UNVIVERSITY: $13k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS: $5k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%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.

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$108k · 5 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$108k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+21%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +11%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2021–2022 · $13k · revenue +11%
  • MU
    MESSIAH UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TS
    THADDEUS STEVENS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • TS
    THADDUES STEVENS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
  • TS
    THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +32%

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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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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2
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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3
Albright College

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

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

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
5
Wilson College

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

Education
6
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
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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10
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
Manhattanville University

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

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gettysburg College and the most unlike its peers is Thaddeus Stevens Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREPENN STATE UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITYTHADDEUS STEVENS COLLEGE — $15,000 · OtherTHADDEUS STEVENS COLLEGETHADDUES STEVENS COLLEGE — $12,500 · OtherTHADDUES STEVENS COLLEGEPA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $5,000 · Other+2 more — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $12,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $12,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSITYTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION — $7,500 · EducationTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATIONGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $7,500 · EducationGETTYSBURG COLLEGELEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $7,500 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYBucknell University — $7,500 · EducationBucknell UniversityGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationGROVE CITY COLLEGEPITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS — $5,000 · EducationPITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS
Other$122,500Education$74,500

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS — $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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Scott and Hoffnagle 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • University of Delaware — 25% of 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 · 0–30%
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.

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 17 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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