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Walter J & Ada Kraeger Memorial Scholarship

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$215k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$212k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$229k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $3k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $212k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAMAR UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$211,607
LAMAR UNIVERSITY- MODESTO MORENO$1,000
LAMAR UNIVERSITY- BETHANY STORMS$1,000
LAMAR UNIVERSITY- CORA PITTS$500
LAMAR UNIVERSITY- KINDRED NGUYEN$500
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

5%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12k · 5 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$12k
$6k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
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

  • LU
    LAMAR UNIVERSITY- MODESTO MORENO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k
  • LU
    LAMAR UNIVERSITY- BETHANY STORMS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k
  • LU
    LAMAR UNIVERSITY- CORA PITTS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k

Funded once

  • LU
    LAMAR UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • LU
    LAMAR UNIVERSITY- ARYA PRADEEP
    one grant, 2022 · $500
  • LU
    LAMAR UNIVERSITY- KACKENZIE DEGEYTER
    one grant, 2022 · $500
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

1 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. 1 of the 10 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)
1/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lamar University Foundation Inc: $211,607 · EducationLamar University Foundation IncLAMAR UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · OtherLAMAR UNIVERSITY- MODESTO MORENO: $3,000 · OtherLAMAR UNIVERSITY- BETHANY STORMS: $3,000 · OtherLAMAR UNIVERSITY- CORA PITTS: $2,500 · OtherLAMAR UNIVERSITY- ELSA JOSEPH: $1,500 · OtherLAMAR UNIVERSITY- KINDRED NGUYEN: $1,500 · Other+3 more: $1,500 · Other
Education$211,607Other$17,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLamar University Foundation Inc: $211,607 over 1y, 1.5% 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 Lamar University Foundation Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Walter J & Ada Kraeger Memorial Scholarship funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter J & Ada Kraeger Memorial 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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