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The Apawamis Foundation

To support education and educational excellence through grants, scholarships and financial assistance to students, institutions and other organizations.

$257k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $200,802, the rows itemized in this filing. The $256,802 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,000 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $187k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$194k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MGA CADDY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$41,000
IONA COLLEGE$20,000
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$15,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$15,000
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES$15,000
PACE UNIVERSITY$10,500
EAGLE HILL SCHOOL$10,000
SUNY GENESCO$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$10,000
MUHLENBERG COLLEGE$10,000
BEACON COLLEGE$10,000
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO$10,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$7,500
WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE$6,802
02The need
02

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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON COLLEGE: $8k → 7%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%MUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $10k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%IONA COLLEGE: $20k → 9%HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $15k → 10%SUNY GENESCO: $15k → 11%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $10k → 16%PACE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 17%CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%BEACON COLLEGE: $10k → 10%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $15k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $10k → 11%THOMAS COLLEGE: $10k → 12%MUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $10k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%IONA COLLEGE: $10k → 9%SUNY GENESCO: $10k → 11%PACE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 17%BEACON COLLEGE: $10k → 10%EAGLE HILL SCHOOL: $10k → 9%MGA CADDY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $41k → 9%EAGLE HILL SCHOOL: $10k → 9%MGA CADDY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $32k → 9%PURCHASE COLLEGE: $10k → 9%WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $7k → 9%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

ME
NY
PA
CT
AZ
DC
AL
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$232k · 8 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$232k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+4%

Still filing today

63%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
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

  • IU
    IONA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +7%
  • MC
    MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +7%
  • BC
    BEACON COLLEGE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +4%
  • TC
    THOMAS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
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
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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3
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
4
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
5
Albright College

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

Education
6
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Manhattanville University

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

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Iona University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 19 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MGA CADDY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $73,000 · OtherMGA CADDY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT PURCHASE: $35,000 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT PURCHASEBEACON COLLEGE INC: $20,000 · OtherBEACON COLLEGE INCPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $16,878 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $10,000 · OtherWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6,802 · Other+1 more: $5,456 · OtherIONA UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationIONA UNIVERSITYMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationMUHLENBERG COLLEGEEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION INCPACE UNIVERSITY: $17,000 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITYTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $15,000 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICAHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $15,000 · EducationHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGESSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $15,000 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATEDTHOMAS COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationTHOMAS COLLEGETrustees of Hamilton College: $10,000 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton CollegeTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $7,500 · Education
Other$192,136Education$159,500

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 budgetIONA UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON COLLEGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $7,500 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 The Apawamis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Apawamis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Beacon College Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Apawamis Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Apawamis 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 19 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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