New York · Nonprofit
ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC
ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,319 to it, the largest being JURI LELLEP TRUST XXXXX5001 ($114,328). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $219k
- Net assets
- $13M
What Estonian Students Fund in USA Inc does
Mission
The fund is primarily engaged in making scholarship grants to students of estonian descent in the united states and elsewhere, for purpose of graduate or undergraduate study. All applications for scholarship aid are supported by transcripts of recent academic work as well as by at least two letters of recommendation. One of which must be from the institution of learning most recently attended. Applications are reviewed and passed upon by a committee on scholarships. Final determination is based on both academic excellence and financial need. Insofar as this can be determined. Applicants related to any person or coporation having an interest in the fund are automatically disqualified.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
The organization's primary purpose is to provide financial aid to estonian students at institutions of higher learning and for academic initiatives that support estonian culture, language, and society.
$956,295 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $14M to $15M (+6%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
4% of ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $23k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 54% · 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 51% · 2022 54% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC?
- ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,319 to it, the largest being JURI LELLEP TRUST XXXXX5001 ($114,328). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $219,319 in grants to ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC?
- JURI LELLEP TRUST XXXXX5001 is the largest funder on record, with $114,328 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESTONIAN STUDENTS FUND IN USA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing