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Tuw Earl Koons Scholarship at a glance

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Tuw Earl Koons Scholarship

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
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$47k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$114k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$3,000
KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY$2,000
SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY$2,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$1,000
SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY$1,000
MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY$500
KING'S COLLEGE$250
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY: $1k → 8%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $500 → 16%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $649 → 6%DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $649 → 6%ARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 7%SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%WILSON COLLEGE: $500 → 9%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $649 → 9%MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 9%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $1k → 11%KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 11%EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%KEYSTONE COLLEGE: $1k → 13%MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $649 → 15%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $2k → 22%YELLOWBRICK ANIMATION MENTOR: $2k → 17%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $249 → 14%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERISTY: $2k → 19%WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE: $1k → 7%SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY: $249 → 7%SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY: $500 → 8%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: $649 → 11%LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $750 → 11%WILKES UNIVERSITY: $500 → 15%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%LA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $649 → 22%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $500 → 19%TRIANGLE TECH: $249 → 11%LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $750 → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY-HAZLETON: $500 → 15%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $898 → 16%LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE - LCCC: $249 → 11%MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $500 → 15%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%MORAVIAN COLLEGE: $1k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%MORAVIAN COLLEGE: $750 → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%DESALES UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%DESALES UNIVERSITY: $750 → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERISTY: $1k → 16%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

NH
NY
MA
PA
WV
VA
TN
SC
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26k · 9 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
22

Total granted

$26k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+10%

Still filing today

56%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • DU
    DESALES UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +25%
  • WU
    WILKES UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2021 · $2k · revenue +8%
  • MU
    MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • AU
    ARCADIA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +23%
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 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
2
Albright College

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

Education
3
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
4
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
5
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
6
Manhattanville University

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

Education
7
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
8
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
9
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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10
Gettysburg College

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

Education
11
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
12
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Salle University; the most unlike its peers is Desales 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

16 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. 16 of the 34 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)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,998 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITYKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: $2,649 · OtherKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITYLEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2,500 · OtherLEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMORAVIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,550 · OtherSHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · OtherWILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE: $1,375 · Other+13 more: $9,195 · Other+13 moreDESALES UNIVERSITY: $2,125 · EducationDESALES UNIVERSITYSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITYWILKES UNIVERSITY: $1,875 · EducationWILKES UNIVERSITYARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $1,550 · EducationARCADIA UNIVERSITYLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $1,500 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGEMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $1,149 · EducationMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITYLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYLA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $649 · EducationWILSON COLLEGE: $500 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $500 · Education+3 more: $748 · Education+3 more
Other$33,517Education$13,596

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 budgetDESALES UNIVERSITY: $2,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY: $1,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORAVIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $1,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $1,149 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $649 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $649 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILSON COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKING'S COLLEGE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $249 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $249 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.

  • Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WILSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Southern New Hampshire University ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗

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.

Verizon FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Verizon FoundationNJ12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Tuw Earl Koons Scholarship funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tuw Earl Koons Scholarship. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s 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
    ⤢ 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.

    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 34 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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