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The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd

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.

$548k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 9
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$548k58%
FY20247$292k14%
FY20237$199k29%
FY20225$124k20%
FY20215$116k40%
FY20208$121k13%
FY20199$111kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$517kHuman Services$376kScience & Tech$345kHealth$100kEnvironment$60kArts & Culture$25kCommunity Improvement$25kInternational$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia$345,00070%
International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc$203,2075n/a
Gbscidp Foundation International Inc$100,0001n/a
Felician University$66,00030%
Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve Association$60,1431n/a
Kean University Foundation Inc$50,00010%
Trustees of Westminster School Inc$50,00010%
Children First PA$46,00030%
The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc$45,00022%
Bucks County Herald Foundation$25,0001n/a
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All grantees of The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia$345,00070%
International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc$203,2075n/a
Gbscidp Foundation International Inc$100,0001n/a
Felician University$66,00030%
Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve Association$60,1431n/a
Kean University Foundation Inc$50,00010%
Trustees of Westminster School Inc$50,00010%
Children First PA$46,00030%
The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc$45,00022%
Bucks County Herald Foundation$25,0001n/a
Pennsylvania State University$16,0002n/a
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$16,00020%
Seton Hall University$16,00020%
World Affairs Council of Philadelphia$15,00030%
Manor College$13,00050%
Corinth 13 Center$10,0001n/a
Rider University$8,00010%
Bucks County Community College Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Kenyon College$5,00010%
Medford-Vincentown Rotary Foundation In$5,00024%
Hurricane Island Outward Bound School$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($410k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: $345,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFelician University: $66,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKean University Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees of Westminster School Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren First PA: $46,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Friends of Foundation Academy Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeton Hall University: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Philadelphia: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetManor College: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRider University: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucks County Community College Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKenyon College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedford-Vincentown Rotary Foundation In: $5,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Griffith Family FoundationPA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Griffith Family Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd

How much does The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd give?
The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd reported 19 grants totaling $548,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Human Services (25%), Science & Tech (23%).
Who are The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ($345k), International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc ($203k), Gbscidp Foundation International Inc ($100k).
Does The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Griffith Family Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
Where is The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd based?
The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd is based in PA.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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