· Private foundation
Wilbur E Postles Scholarship Fund
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $196k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE3× · 2017–2019 · $232k · revenue +37%- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER2× · 2017–2018 · $70k · revenue +33%
The Trustees of Princeton University3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $11k
- UOUNIVERSTIY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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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
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 107 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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wilbur E Postles Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilbur E Postles Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 12% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pensacola Christian College Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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