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Suhr Family Mem Scholarship Fd

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$3k
Largest
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.

Education$126kRecreation & Sports$6kHealth$4kCommunity Improvement$3k
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$311k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO$1,000
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$1,000
IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY$1,000
WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%BABSON COLLEGE: $1k → 7%IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO: $1k → 16%BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAHO: $1k → 22%MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%CARROLL COLLEGE: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MT WESTERN: $1k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE: $2k → 14%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 14%BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $1k → 9%GREAT FALLS COLLEGE-MSU: $1k → 14%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

WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
MI
NY
MA
UT
CO
MO
AZ
NC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$144k · 22 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
2

Total granted

$144k
$3k

Still filing today

41%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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

  • CC
    CARROLL COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +3%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE
    6× · 2019–2026 · $12k · revenue +5%
  • GC
    Grand Canyon University
    7× · 2019–2026 · $11k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • RI
    ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF
    one grant, 2025 · $2k
  • MS
    MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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

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.

1
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
2
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
3
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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4
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
5
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
6
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
7
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
8
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
9
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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10
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
11
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
12
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evangel University; the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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

11 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. 11 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $18,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $17,300 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MONTANAMONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,200 · OtherMONTANA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MT WESTERN: $6,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MT WESTERNSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $5,550 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYIDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY: $4,700 · OtherUniversity of Michigan: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,850 · OtherNORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,700 · Other+9 more: $18,350 · Other+9 moreCARROLL COLLEGE: $13,100 · EducationCARROLL COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE: $12,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCEGrand Canyon University: $10,700 · EducationGrand Canyon UniversityEvangel University: $5,850 · EducationEvangel UniversityUniversity of Mary: $4,000 · EducationUniversity of MaryBABSON COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationBABSON COLLEGEDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · Education
Other$96,850Education$52,850

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARROLL COLLEGE: $13,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE: $12,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $10,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEvangel University: $5,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $5,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Mary: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 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 CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE ↗
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
  • Who funds Evangel University ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds University of Mary ↗
  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Brigham Young University Alumni LLC ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗

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.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Suhr Family Mem Scholarship Fd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suhr Family Mem Scholarship Fd. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Babson College: 0% 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
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.

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 27 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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