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Whiteside Scholarship Fund Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Whiteside Scholarship Fund Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$281k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$38k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.5MRecreation & Sports$52kCommunity Improvement$29kArts & Culture$6kScience & Tech$5k
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $157k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $124k
$3,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON$37,500
CARLETON COLLEGE$26,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES$17,500
ST OLAF COLLEGE$13,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$10,000
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MN DULUTH$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MN TWIN CITIES$9,000
SMITH COLLEGE$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH$6,000
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE$5,500
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$5,000
ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY$5,000
MACALESTER COLLEGE$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $5k → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $3k → 12%GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $6k → 9%CARLETON COLLEGE: $26k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES: $44k → 11%COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $3k → 11%MACALESTER COLLEGE: $5k → 14%WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%CONCORDIA COLLEGE: $5k → 15%THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $3k → 9%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%CAL POLY CORPORATION: $3k → 12%POMONA COLLEGE: $3k → 14%VASSAR COLLEGE: $3k → 9%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 14%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER FALLS: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $38k → 10%COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $5k → 13%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%WHITMAN COLLEGE: $3k → 13%DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA: $3k → 13%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $10k → 9%SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE: $3k → 10%UNION COLLEGE: $3k → 33%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $5k → 7%BATES COLLEGE: $3k → 13%SMITH COLLEGE: $8k → 12%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $13k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES: $18k → 11%ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MN DULUTH: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN- MADISON: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MN TWIN CITIES: $9k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH: $6k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MN TWIN CITIES: $3k → 11%BETHEL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA: $3k → 15%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

ME
VT
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 54 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
22

Total granted

$1.4M
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+37%

Still filing today

63%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SO
    ST OLAF COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $97k · revenue +57%
  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $83k · revenue +31%
  • GA
    GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • BY
    BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF SAINT SCHOLASTICA
    one grant, 2023 · $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
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
2
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
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
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
5
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
6
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
7
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
8
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
9
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
10
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
11
Albright College

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

Education
12
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carleton College; the most unlike its peers is Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation. 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

50 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. 50 of the 97 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)
50/50
Grantees still filing
34/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST OLAF COLLEGE: $97,000 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGECARLETON COLLEGE: $83,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGEGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGEMACALESTER COLLEGE: $37,500 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $37,499 · EducationLUTHER COLLEGE: $31,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $30,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $29,500 · EducationCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $25,500 · Education+35 more: $328,000 · Education+35 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES: $183,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIESUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $98,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISONUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $76,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTALAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · OtherLAWRENCE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH: $37,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $27,500 · Other+45 more: $265,134 · Other+45 moreNorthwestern University: $41,500 · Recreation & SportsDULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29,027 · Philanthropy
Education$749,499Other$727,134Recreation & Sports$41,500Philanthropy$29,027

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 budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $97,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $83,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $41,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $37,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $37,499 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE: $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $29,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29,027 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $21,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION: $3,000 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 ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Whiteside Scholarship Fund Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whiteside Scholarship Fund Trust. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Saint Michael's College: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% 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, 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 97 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home