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A L Steinke Perpetual Scholarship at a glance

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A L Steinke Perpetual Scholarship

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$568kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,250
Median grant
8
States reached
$975k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$6,625
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA$6,250
DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$5,550
WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY$3,625
ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY$3,300
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES$3,300
MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO$2,250
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA$2,150
UNIVERSITY OF MARY$1,250
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH$1,250
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT$1,250
BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE$1,250
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$1,250
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN$1,125
THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$1,125
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - MORRIS: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES: $3k → 11%ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%MINNESOTA WEST COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COL: $3k → 11%WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH: $1k → 15%MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY- MANKATO: $4k → 15%NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $1k → 8%LUTHER COLLEGE: $1k → 10%MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $1k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: $1k → 15%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PLATTEVILLE: $1k → 13%AL STEINKE SCHOLARSHIP: $1k → 10%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARY: $1k → 10%NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA: $2k → 13%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 9%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 10%BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $8k → 20%ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%AL STEINKE SCHOLARSHIP: $1k → 11%WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - DULUTH: $1k → 15%MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO: $2k → 15%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 20%NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY: $1k → 9%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $6k → 20%BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE: $2k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $1k → 20%BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE: $1k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $1k → 9%SANFORD SCHOOL OF RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY: $1k → 9%AVERA RADIOLOGIC TECH PROGRAM: $1k → 9%AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%SOUTHEAST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $1k → 9%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

ID
ND
MN
WI
MA
SD
IA
IN
UT
CO
NE
AZ
KS
TN
SC
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$468k · 35 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
37

Total granted

$468k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+8%

Still filing today

23%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • AU
    AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +79%
  • GC
    Grand Canyon University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +18%
  • BL
    BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • SS
    SWMN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • UO
    UNIVERISTY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • MS
    MN STATE UNIVERSITY- MANKATO
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
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
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
2
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
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
Dordt University

As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…

Education
5
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa

We are a Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university founded in 1843 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. Clarke educates students at the post-secondary level in the liberal arts and sciences, the…

Education
8
St Olaf College

St. olaf college challenges students to excel in the liberal arts, examine faith and values, and explore meaningful vocation in an inclusive, globally engaged community nourished by lutheran tradition.

Education
9
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
10
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
11
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
12
St Ambrose University

Mission statement: an inclusive, catholic, and diocesan community of learners, st. ambrose university empowers all ambrosians to act courageously, to seek wisdom through faith and reason, to work for justice, and to lead lives of service.…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany Lutheran College Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sdsm&T Center for Alumni Relations & Advancement. 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

15 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. 15 of the 78 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)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $65,925 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $60,300 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTASDSU: $45,400 · OtherSDSUDAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $38,250 · OtherDAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYMINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY- MANKATO: $32,300 · OtherMINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY- MANKATONORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $22,625 · Other+57 more: $213,825 · Other+57 moreAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $31,175 · EducationAUGUSTANA UNIVERSI…GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $12,000 · EducationGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS …Grand Canyon University: $10,600 · EducationGrand Canyon Unive…UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $9,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SIOU…BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $6,650 · EducationBETHANY LUTHERAN C…SDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT: $5,200 · EducationSDSM&T CENTER FOR …NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $3,800 · Education+8 more: $13,550 · Education+8 more
Other$478,625Education$92,475

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 budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $31,175 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $10,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $6,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT: $5,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $3,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Mary: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE: $1,000 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 AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

United Way WorldwideRenaissance Charitabl…La Amundson Ohana Fou…Pella Rolscreen Found…James J & Mildred M P…Paul & Mary Collins T…Edward L Schwab Memor…The Leonard Rydell Fo…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…
United Way WorldwideVA16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · La Amundson Ohana Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · James J & Mildred M Postma Scholarship Fund · Paul & Mary Collins Trust · Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank · The Leonard Rydell Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 A L Steinke Perpetual Scholarship funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A L Steinke Perpetual Scholarship. 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 26%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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 78 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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