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Ann Piper Scholarship Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2026
12
Organizations funded FY2025
8%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$13,400
Organizations funded a year
9 to 12
FY2023 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$908k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 8% of the organizations Ann Piper Scholarship Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’24’25
EducationReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving10$49k30%
FY202512$48k8%
FY20249$50k22%
FY202311$61kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$157kHealth$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wartburg College$21,90040%
Indian Hills Community College$19,000415%
Central College$12,80030%
Simpson College$11,50040%
Coe College$8,50020%
William Penn University$6,50020%
Loras College$4,50020%
Drake University$4,00020%
Buena Vista University$2,4001n/a
Mercy College of Health Sciences$2,00010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($114k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ann Piper Scholarship Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWartburg College: $21,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Hills Community College: $19,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCentral College: $12,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSimpson College: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCoe College: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Penn University: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLoras College: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDrake University: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy College of Health Sciences: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Moore Scholarship TrustWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Moore Scholarship Trust · Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust

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.

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About Ann Piper Scholarship Trust

How much does Ann Piper Scholarship Trust give?
Ann Piper Scholarship Trust reported 10 grants totaling $48,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2025.
What does Ann Piper Scholarship Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (99%), Health (1%).
Who are Ann Piper Scholarship Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2026: Wartburg College ($22k), Indian Hills Community College ($19k), Central College ($13k).
Does Ann Piper Scholarship Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ann Piper Scholarship Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ann Piper Scholarship Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Moore Scholarship Trust, Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust.
Where is Ann Piper Scholarship Trust based?
Ann Piper Scholarship Trust is based in MN.

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 17 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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