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Claude and Verne Line Scholarship Fund Trust at a glance

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Claude and Verne Line Scholarship Fund Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$328kHealth$8kRecreation & Sports$8kReligion$7k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$8,375
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$16,750
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA$16,750
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$8,375
CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY$8,375
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH JASPER$250
REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH$250
TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST$250
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$250
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE MMI: $3k → 13%LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%US AIR FORCE ACADEMY: $3k → 9%FRANKLIN COLLEGE: $9k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $250 → 8%HANOVER COLLEGE: $5k → 12%VINCENNES UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $9k → 15%IUPUI: $5k → 16%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $7k → 18%ISU OFFICE OF THE CONTROLLER: $10k → 19%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 19%ASBURY UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH: $250 → 8%VINCENNES UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6k → 15%IUPUI: $3k → 16%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $6k → 18%ISU OFFICE OF THE CONTROLLER: $3k → 19%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 19%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $250 → 8%VINCENNES UNIVERSITY: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $18k → 15%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 19%REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH: $250 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $13k → 15%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 19%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH JASPER: $250 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $10k → 15%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 19%TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $250 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $7k → 15%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $250 → 8%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $250 → 8%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH JASPER: $250 → 8%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $250 → 8%REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH: $250 → 8%REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH: $250 → 8%TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $250 → 8%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH JASPER: $250 → 8%REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH: $250 → 8%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH JASPER: $250 → 8%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH JASPER: $250 → 8%REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH: $250 → 8%REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH: $250 → 8%TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $250 → 8%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$282k · 12 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$282k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+39%

Still filing today

8%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $77k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA
    5× · 2019–2025 · $64k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $39k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • RI
    Rose-Hulman Institute of Technologygraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • IU
    INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • FC
    Franklin College of Indiana
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +25%
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
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
2
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
3
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
4
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
5
Otterbein University

Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…

Education
6
Xavier University

Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…

Education
7
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
8
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; the most unlike its peers is Southern Illinois University Alumni Association. 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

9 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. 9 of the 23 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $76,550 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $64,050 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANAIndiana University School of Medicine: $35,700 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineVINCENNES UNIVERSITY: $17,700 · OtherVINCENNES UNIVERSITYIVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15,000 · OtherIVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGEWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $14,500 · OtherWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITYISU OFFICE OF THE CONTROLLER: $12,500 · OtherRose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $9,500 · OtherINDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST: $9,500 · Other+7 more: $15,400 · Other+7 moreUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $38,900 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLEFranklin College of Indiana: $9,000 · EducationFranklin College of Indian…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $8,375 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame d…Cedarville University: $8,375 · EducationCedarville UniversitySOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · EducationSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSI…ASBURY COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationASBURY COLLEGEHanover College: $5,000 · EducationHanover College
Other$270,400Education$81,650

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $38,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin College of Indiana: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $8,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $8,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY COLLEGE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHanover College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $2,500 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 UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
  • Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Franklin College of Indiana ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds Cedarville University ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ASBURY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Hanover College ↗
  • Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Claude and Verne Line Scholarship Fund Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Claude and Verne Line Scholarship Fund Trust. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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 · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to Claude and Verne Line Scholarship Fund Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Claude and Verne Line Scholarship Fund Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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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