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Ann Piper Scholarship Trust at a glance

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Ann Piper Scholarship Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2026still arriving
10
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$157kHealth$2k
02FY2026 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k8 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$908k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$13,400
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA$10,900
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY$4,800
CENTRAL COLLEGE$4,800
SIMPSON COLLEGE$3,000
DES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$2,400
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY$2,400
BUENA VISTA UNIVERSITY$2,400
WARTBURG COLLEGE$2,400
INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$2,000
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 (FY23–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SIMPSON COLLEGE: $3k → 6%WARTBURG COLLEGE: $2k → 7%CENTRAL COLLEGE: $5k → 8%WALDORF UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%BUENA VISTA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%DES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $13k → 15%BUENA VISTA UNIVERSITY-OTTUMWA: $3k → 16%SIMPSON COLLEGE: $3k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY: $2k → 15%BUENA VISTA UNIVERSITY-OTTUMWA: $2k → 16%INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$195k · 12 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$195k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25’26
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IH
    INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    4× · 2023–2026 · $19k · revenue +338%
  • CC
    CENTRAL COLLEGE
    3× · 2023–2026 · $13k · revenue +39%
  • SC
    Simpson College
    4× · 2023–2026 · $12k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • WU
    WALDORF UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • MC
    MERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
    one grant, 2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
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
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
3
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
4
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
5
Wilson College

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

Education
6
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
7
Hilbert College

Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…

Education
8
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
9
Centre College

Centre college is a small, independent, and selective educational community dedicated to study in the liberal arts as a means to develop the intellectual, personal, and moral potential of its students. centre nurtures in its students the…

Education
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
12
Albright College

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loras College; the most unlike its peers is Coe College. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $44,900 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWAIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $33,800 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA: $22,900 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWAINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $19,000 · OtherINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGEBUENA VISTA UNIVERSITY-OTTUMWA: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $12,300 · Other+4 moreWARTBURG COLLEGE: $21,900 · EducationWARTBURG COLLEGECENTRAL COLLEGE: $12,800 · EducationCENTRAL COLLEGESimpson College: $11,500 · EducationSimpson CollegeCOE COLLEGE: $8,500 · EducationCOE COLLEGEWILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY: $6,500 · EducationWILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITYDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYBuena Vista University: $2,400 · EducationMERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $2,000 · Religion
Other$137,900Education$67,600Religion$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Simpson College ↗
  • Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Buena Vista University ↗
  • Who funds MERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗

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 Tru…Fahrney Education Fdt…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ann Piper Scholarship Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ann Piper Scholarship Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s 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
    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 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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