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W C Sharp Scholarship

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$561kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,060
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCOTT SARI CO PNC BANK$3,060
KEEGAN FOOTE CO PNC BANK$3,060
CYNTHIA MIRANDA CO PNC BANK$3,060
ISABELLA COMPITELLO CO PNC BANK$3,060
GRANT RUPINSKI CO PNC BANK$3,060
SAMANTHA CUSHING CO PNC BANK$3,060
GRACE IOVINE CO PNC BANK$3,060
JONAH KRINIC CO PNC BANK$3,060
RICHARD RYON CO PNC BANK$3,060
ALYSSA RIGBY CO PNC BANK$3,060
CONNOR CO PNC BANK$3,060
BRENDAN MCCORMICK CO PNC BANK$3,060
LILY PLESNIARSKI CO PNC BANK$3,060
JASON THOMAS FARNUNG CO PNC BANK$3,060
KYLE SKIENDZIELEWSKI CO PNC BANK$3,060
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 8%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $3k → 12%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS: $69k → 11%REGENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $3k → 10%UNC-CHAROLETTE: $3k → 10%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $4k → 6%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $4k → 14%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%RIDER UNIVERSIY: $5k → 11%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%STEVENS INSITITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 14%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $4k → 11%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%AVERY SMITH CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%SAMANTHA CUSHING CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%KYLE SKIENDZIELEWSKI CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%GRANT RUPINSKI CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%LILY PLESNIARSKI CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%RICHARD RYON CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%LAINA FOSTER CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%SCOTT SARI CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%JASON THOMAS FARNUNG CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%MICHAEL KACZYNSKI CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%SAMANTHA REILLY CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%ALYSSA RIGBY CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%WYATT STOUT CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%CONNOR CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%OWEN HEIN CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%GRACE IOVINE CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%ISABELLA COMPITELLO CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%NICHOLAS PROSPERI CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%HILLARY LAI CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%CYNTHIA MIRANDA CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%BRENDAN MCCORMICK CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%AIDEN KRINIC CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%JONAH KRINIC CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%TREVOR KERLIN CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%KEEGAN FOOTE CO PNC BANK: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$97k · 14 repeat orgs$521k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
140

Total granted

$97k
$444k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+37%

Still filing today

36%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    2× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +74%
  • PU
    PACE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +24%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $69k
  • Vanderbilt Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +74%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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
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
3
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
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
6
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
7
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
8
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

9
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
10
Manhattanville University

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

Education
11
Albright College

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

Education
12
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr15%8%35–55yr17%65%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr15%11%35–55yr17%49%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,133

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 182 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
22/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $68,816 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY — $21,700 · Other+157 more — $469,716 · Other+157 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $7,350 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $5,800 · EducationMassachusett…PACE UNIVERSITY — $5,300 · EducationPACE UNIVERS…RIDER UNIVERSITY — $5,250 · EducationRIDER UNIVER…Vanderbilt University — $5,000 · EducationVanderbilt U…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $4,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC — $3,750 · EducationMONMOUTH UNI…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $3,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $3,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University — $3,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $3,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $2,800 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College — $2,800 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY — $2,750 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $2,500 · Education+8 more — $9,227 · Education+8 more
Other$560,232Education$69,277

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $7,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $5,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY — $5,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY — $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALFRED UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA SALLE UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElon University — $477 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
  • Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization W C Sharp Scholarship funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology26% of income from government
  • University of Delaware25% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology12% of income from government
  • Rider University1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College0% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc0% of 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 182 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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