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The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $424k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL$100,000
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP & TUITION SERVICES$63,957
BOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE$60,143
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC$50,000
FELICIAN UNIVERSITY$50,000
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES$50,000
KEAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$50,000
CHILDREN FIRST PA$26,000
DORNSIFE CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIPS AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY$25,000
BUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION$25,000
CORINTH 13 CENTER$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA$10,000
MANOR COLLEGE$5,000
EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF PHILADELPHIA$5,000
BUCKS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $26k → 22%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $10k → 22%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $10k → 22%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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 14 repeat orgs$349k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$1.2M
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-12%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentScience & TechInternationalHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • TA
    THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA
    7× · 2019–2025 · $345k · revenue +66%
  • FELICIAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2025 · $66k · revenue +29%
  • CF
    Children First PA
    3× · 2022–2025 · $46k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • RIDER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -12%
  • RU
    RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
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
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
2
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
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
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
5
Providence College

See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.

Education
6
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
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
9
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
10
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
11
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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12
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kenyon College; the most unlike its peers is The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 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

18 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. 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF PHILADELPHIA: $310,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF PHILADELPHIAINTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND TUITION SERVICES INC: $203,207 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND TUITION SERVICES IN…Individual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDORNSIFE CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIPS AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · Other+6 more: $72,000 · Other+6 moreTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $345,000 · Science & TechTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SC…FELICIAN UNIVERSITY: $66,000 · EducationFELICIAN UNIVERSITYKEAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationKEAN UNIVERSITY FOU…TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMIN…The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc: $45,000 · EducationThe Friends of Foun…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $16,000 · EducationTemple University -…MANOR COLLEGE: $13,000 · Education+4 more: $23,000 · Education+4 moreGBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 · HealthBOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE ASSOCIATION: $60,143 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentChildren First PA: $46,000 · Human ServicesBUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 · International
Other$655,207Science & Tech$345,000Education$263,000Health$100,000Environment$61,143Human Services$46,000Arts & Culture$25,000International$15,000

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 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
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.

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 Found…The Robert Wood Johns…The Philadelphia Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd?

Find your warmest path to The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd 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 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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