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Worthing Scholarship Fund at a glance

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Worthing Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$207k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$51k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1M
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$3,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$50,500
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN$21,000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$20,000
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$13,000
TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY$9,000
PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY$9,000
CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY$3,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$3,000
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS$3,000
SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIV$3,000
MACALESTER COLLEGE$3,000
SPELMAN COLLEGE$3,000
COLBY COLLEGE$3,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $4k → 10%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $4k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $4k → 8%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN: $28k → 10%PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CENTRAL: $54k → 16%LAMAR UNIVERSITY: $4k → 19%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 20%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $24k → 22%STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE: $4k → 23%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 7%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $4k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $4k → 9%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN: $28k → 10%PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $9k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $28k → 16%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 20%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $20k → 22%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN: $21k → 10%PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 20%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $18k → 22%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN: $20k → 10%PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $9k → 16%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $14k → 22%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO: $14k → 16%TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $16k → 16%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
NH
MN
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$989k · 54 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
27

Total granted

$989k
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+31%

Still filing today

63%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +11%
  • TU
    Trinity University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +14%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CENTRAL
    one grant, 2017 · $54k
  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +39%
  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +76%
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
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
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
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
4
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
5
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
6
University of Miami

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

Education
7
Albright College

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

Education
8
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
9
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
10
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
11
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
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
40/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN: $165,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTINUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $156,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $122,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CENTRAL: $54,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CENTRALPRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $47,000 · OtherPRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITYTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · OtherTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $39,000 · Other+39 more: $223,000 · Other+39 moreTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $29,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYTrinity University: $24,000 · EducationTrinity UniversityNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $17,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYClark Atlanta University Inc: $11,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University: $10,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+39 more: $186,000 · Education+39 more
Other$851,500Education$287,000

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 budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $29,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity University: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's University: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Edwards University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $2,000 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 THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Trinity University ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Pitzer College ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
  • Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury 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.

Enterprise Holdings F…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Worthing Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Worthing Scholarship Fund. 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Bethune-Cookman University: 11% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 91 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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