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Studebaker National Foundation at a glance

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Studebaker National Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2026still arriving
5
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$78kEducation$1kRecreation & Sports$200
02FY2026 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$536k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM$2,500
MCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO CALEB PEZOLD$2,000
UNIVERSAL TECH INSTFBO PERRI WEST$2,000
PITTSBURG STATE UNIV FBO E WEISER$2,000
OREGON STATE UNIV FBO AFROEBER$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PHOENIX POLICE MUSEUM: $1k → 11%UNIV-NOARIZONA FBO LAURYN HALVER: $3k → 16%PENNCOLLEGETECH FBO JASON WOLLERM: $4k → 12%AACA MUSEUM INC: $750 → 12%UNIVCA-SAN DIEGO FBO MICH'L FIGUER: $2k → 11%PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM: $400 → 11%CARSON HIGH SCHOOL-ROBERT ROACH: $1k → 14%ANTIQUE CAR MUSEUM OF IOWA: $200 → 15%MCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO JASON PETERS: $3k → 10%PITTSBURG STATE UNIV FBO E WEISER: $2k → 18%WORLD OF SPEED: $200 → 8%OREGON STATE UNIV FBO AFROEBER: $2k → 18%RV HALL OF FAME: $200 → 13%STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM: $10k → 13%CENTRAL OHIO TECH FBO MATT CHERNITS: $2k → 10%UNIV OF FINDLAY FBO KAITLYN CHERNI: $2k → 18%YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVFBO DAVETHOMPS: $2k → 19%UNIVOF VIRGINIA FBO SPENCER RUBIN: $2k → 8%VIRGINIA TECH FBO CALEB KIGHT: $2k → 21%WYOMING TECH FBO WILLIAM FETTERHOFF: $2k → 17%UNIVERSAL TECH INSTFBO PERRI WEST: $2k → 11%UNIV-NOARIZONA FBO LAURYN HALVER: $2k → 16%PENNCOLLTECH FBO MICHAEL KROKOWSK: $2k → 12%PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM: $200 → 11%CAL STU-LONGBEACH FBO JACOB GUTIER: $2k → 14%ANTIQUE CAR MUSEUM OF IOWA: $200 → 15%MCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO CALEB PEZOLD: $2k → 10%STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM: $5k → 13%UNIVERSAL TECH INSTFBO PERRI WEST: $2k → 11%UNIV-NOARIZONA FBO LAURYN HALVER: $2k → 16%MCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO GRAHAM NOBLET: $2k → 10%STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM: $3k → 13%MARTIN AUTO MUSEUM: $200 → 11%MCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO GRAHAM NOBLET: $2k → 10%STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM: $3k → 13%MARTIN AUTO MUSEUM: $200 → 11%MCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO GRAHAM NOBLET: $2k → 10%STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM: $3k → 13%MARTIN AUTO MUSEUM: $200 → 11%MCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO GEORGE REID: $2k → 10%STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM: $3k → 13%MARTIN AUTO MUSEUM: $200 → 11%MCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO GRAHAM NOBLET: $2k → 10%STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM: $3k → 13%MCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO GEORGE REID: $2k → 10%STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM: $3k → 13%STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM: $2k → 13%STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM: $500 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

OR
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
VA
AZ
KS
SC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 9 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$58k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-14%

Still filing today

44%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SN
    STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2018–2026 · $33k · revenue +41%
  • MA
    Martin Auto Museum Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $800 · revenue +802%
  • PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $600 · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • PF
    PENNCOLLEGETECH FBO JASON WOLLERM
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • MC
    MCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO JASON PETERS
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • UD
    UNIVCA-SAN DIEGO FBO MICH'L FIGUER
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO GRAHAM NOBLET: $7,500 · OtherMCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO GRAHAM NOBLETUNIV-NOARIZONA FBO LAURYN HALVER: $6,000 · OtherUNIV-NOARIZONA FBO LAURYN HALVERUNIVERSAL TECH INSTFBO PERRI WEST: $4,000 · OtherUNIVERSAL TECH INSTFBO PERRI WESTPENNCOLLEGETECH FBO JASON WOLLERM: $3,500 · OtherPENNCOLLEGETECH FBO JASON WOLLERMMCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO GEORGE REID: $3,000 · OtherMCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO GEORGE REIDMCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO JASON PETERS: $3,000 · OtherMCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO JASON PETERSCHARLESTON SOUTHUNIVFBO DYLAN KELLY: $3,000 · OtherCHARLESTON SOUTHUNIVFBO DYLAN KELLYMCPHERSON COLLEGE FBO CALEB PEZOLD: $2,000 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIV FBO AFROEBER: $2,000 · OtherUNIVCA-SAN DIEGO FBO MICH'L FIGUER: $2,000 · OtherWYOMING TECH FBO WILLIAM FETTERHOFF: $2,000 · OtherPITTSBURG STATE UNIV FBO E WEISER: $2,000 · OtherCAL STU-LONGBEACH FBO JACOB GUTIER: $2,000 · OtherCENTRAL OHIO TECH FBO MATT CHERNITS: $2,000 · Other+8 more: $8,900 · Other+8 moreSTUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC: $32,900 · Arts & CultureSTUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC+5 more: $3,550 · Arts & Culture+5 more
Other$52,900Arts & Culture$36,450

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC: $32,900 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetMartin Auto Museum Inc: $800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAACA MUSEUM INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD OF SPEED: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Police Museum ↗
  • Who funds Martin Auto Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds AACA MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTIQUE CAR MUSEUM OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds WORLD OF SPEED ↗

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Studebaker National Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Studebaker National Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Studebaker National Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Studebaker National Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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