· Private foundation
W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MN DULUTH | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN ST PAUL | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES | $2,000 |
| MANKATO STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| GRINNELL COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT | $2,000 |
| ELMHURST UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EUELMHURST UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +23%
DRAKE UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2023 · $14k · revenue +11%- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- ADALYVIA DOBS & COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICAone grant, 2017 · $6k
- MSMINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATOone grant, 2024 · $4k
- NMNO MICHIGAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
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.
A private lutheran four-year university located in downtown minneapolis.
Saint mary's university of minnesota is a private catholic institution that serves about 3,900 students annually. the university offers a comprehensive, personalized education guided by its lasallian catholic heritage. with a wide array of…
To foster the formation of people in faith and educate leaders for the common good through community, education, and academic excellence. see schedule o.
The Organization's mission is to accept donations from sources within the United States for the benefit of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Clu is an institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts and sciences.
Connecting alumni, students, and friends in support of the university of minnesota and each other.
The organization is a post-secondary level educational institution.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover share knowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and develop leadership expressed in service to others.
University of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
An academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within a christian environment.
DePauw is a nationally-recognized, leading liberal arts college committed to creating an atmosphere of intellectual challenge & engagement that prepares students for lifelong success.
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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