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Thanks to Scandinavia Inc

Thanks to scandinavia, a scholarship fund, recognizes the ordinary people who performed extraordinary acts in scandinavia and bulgaria during wwii that saved tens of thousands of their jewish neighbors.

$460k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$813kArts & Culture$200kHealth$47k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $290,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $460,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $170,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$100,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA$20,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$20,000
THE NEW SCHOOL$20,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL$10,000
MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC$10,000
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE$10,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $20k → 22%AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $20k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $20k → 13%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $20k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $16k → 22%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $20k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $20k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%THE NEW SCHOOL: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $20k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $60k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $20k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $40k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $20k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $40k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $20k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $18k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $39k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $20k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $30k → 17%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $20k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $10k → 17%THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC THERAPY AT MOUNT SINAI: $47k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
NC
DC
OK
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$658k · 7 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$658k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+7%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST
    2× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +1%
  • Cornell University
    8× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue +59%
  • MS
    MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $47k · revenue +7%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +10%
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS HEALTH SYSTEM CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +7%
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
9
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
10
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
11
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
12
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $199,441 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKCornell University: $147,824 · EducationCornell UniversityBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $40,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCUniversity of Chicago: $40,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIANew York University: $30,000 · EducationNew York UniversityThe New School: $20,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,000 · EducationMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A …MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSICTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $140,000 · OtherUNVERSITY OF OKLAH…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALI…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORT…BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $47,384 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS HEALTH SYSTEM CORPORATION: $20,000 · Health
Education$552,765Arts & Culture$270,000Other$170,000Health$67,384

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $199,441 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $147,824 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $47,384 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS HEALTH SYSTEM CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $10,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thanks to Scandinavia Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thanks to Scandinavia Inc. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation: 0% 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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