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Yerkes Martha Scholar Fd T W at a glance

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Yerkes Martha Scholar Fd T W

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$199k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$193k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$245k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $6k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $193k
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S FUND OF CHESTER COUNTY$193,435
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$1,500
SPELMAN COLLEGE$1,500
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY$1,500
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$1,500
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 (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDREN'S FUND OF CHESTER COUNTY: $193k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $2k → 13%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 29%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

MN
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
VA
DE
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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28k · 11 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
18

Total granted

$28k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+31%

Still filing today

36%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • PB
    PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +38%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +87%
  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k

Funded once

  • HZ
    HAWLEY ZURLO CO UNIVERSITY OF
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • AB
    ALEXIS BLOEDEL CO NORTHEASTERN
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Point Park University

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…

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3
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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4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Albright College

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

Education
6
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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7
Manhattanville University

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

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
10
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University; the most unlike its peers is The Childrens Fund of Chester County. 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

11 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. 11 of the 32 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDRENS FUND OF CHESTER COUNTY: $193,435 · EducationTHE CHILDRENS FUND OF CHESTER COUNTY+10 more: $17,650 · Education+10 morePENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA ST…JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · OtherJAMES MADISON U…UNIV OF DELAWARE FBO BAILEE MALLON: $2,400 · OtherUNIV OF DELAWAR…JAMES MADISON UNIV FBO RILEY DAHER: $2,350 · OtherJAMES MADISON U…HAWLEY ZURLO CO UNIVERSITY OF: $2,250 · OtherHAWLEY ZURLO CO…BRANDON HOCKING CO LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · OtherBRANDON HOCKING…ANASTASIA RZUCIDLO CO YORK COLLEGE: $1,850 · OtherANASTASIA RZUCI…GIANNA FLORA CO ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $1,850 · OtherGIANNA FLORA CO…ALEXIS BLOEDEL CO NORTHEASTERN: $1,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $1,500 · OtherXANDRO XU CO EMORY UNIVERSITY: $1,250 · OtherUNIV OF FLORIDA FBO SHANDIA LEWISBOOKE: $1,200 · OtherPENN ST UNIV FBO KYLEE ARNOLD: $1,200 · OtherTEMPLE UNIV FBO AILEEN LOPEZ CAMACHO: $1,200 · OtherLAWRENCE IYOK CO COLLEGE OF THE HOLY: $1,200 · OtherBAILEE MALLON CO UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $1,200 · OtherUNIV OF RHODE ISLAND FBO DESTINY: $1,150 · OtherUNIV OF HARTD FBO SAMANTHA MONDRAGON: $1,150 · Other+3 more: $2,700 · Other+3 more
Education$211,085Other$33,950

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 budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $925 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $925 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 CHILDRENS FUND OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Spelman College ↗
  • Who funds GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Yerkes Martha Scholar Fd T W funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yerkes Martha Scholar Fd T W. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Northeastern University: 4% 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 · 0–20%
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 32 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 endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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