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Flora Hornbeck Scholarship Tr at a glance

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Flora Hornbeck Scholarship Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$326k
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,625
Median grant
3
States reached
$959k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY$1,773
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN IN$1,773
LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,773
WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY$1,773
WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY$1,773
KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE$1,773
Individual grant recipient$1,773
WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY$1,773
MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY$1,773
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$1,773
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$1,773
Eastern Kentucky University$1,625
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE$1,625
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$1,625
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$1,625
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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%HARVARD COLLEGE: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN IN: $2k → 15%INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 11%ASBURY UNIVERSTIY: $1k → 6%GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $2k → 8%MIDWAY COLLEGE: $1k → 10%OWENSBORO COMMUNITY: $2k → 13%CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%Eastern Kentucky University: $2k → 16%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $2k → 26%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN IN: $1k → 15%OWENSBORO COMMUNITY: $2k → 13%CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN IN: $1k → 15%OWENSBORO COMMUNITY: $2k → 13%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%OWENSBORO COMMUNITY: $2k → 13%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $2k → 13%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $2k → 13%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%BRESCIA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $2k → 13%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $1k → 13%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $1k → 13%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 18%KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $1k → 13%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

WA
IL
WI
MA
IN
OH
PA
MO
KY
MD
AZ
TN
DC
AL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$294k · 17 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
20

Total granted

$294k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+19%

Still filing today

41%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +33%
  • BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +10%
  • TU
    TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +7%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
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
2
Albright College

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

Education
3
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
4
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
5
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

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
Wilson College

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

Education
8
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
9
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
10
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
11
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jefferson Community Technical College Foundation Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 40 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)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $58,918 · OtherWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $47,684 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE: $43,111 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLEIndividual grant recipient: $30,659 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $24,735 · OtherMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITYEastern Kentucky University: $10,350 · OtherUniversity of Southern Indiana: $9,867 · Other+15 more: $29,425 · Other+15 moreKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $25,550 · EducationKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEG…BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC: $14,847 · EducationBRESCIA UNIVERSITY INCCampbellsville University Inc: $4,800 · EducationCampbellsville Universit…TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $3,700 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $2,825 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $2,800 · EducationGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $2,725 · EducationMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $2,400 · Education+10 more: $11,529 · Education+10 more
Other$254,749Education$71,176

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $25,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC: $14,847 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCampbellsville University Inc: $4,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $3,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $2,825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $2,725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPALDING UNIVERSITY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOakland City University: $1,179 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Lutheran University: $750 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 KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Campbellsville University Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SPALDING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Oakland City University ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Marquette University ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Lutheran 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.

John B & Brownie Youn…Woldenberg FoundationGoldring Family Found…The Community Foundat…Charles G Pearl Schol…Litchfield Memorial S…Council of Independen…Blue Grass Community …The Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings F…Fidelity Foundation
John B & Brownie Young Memorial FundKY22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fund · Woldenberg Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Charles G Pearl Scholarship Fund 006961 · Litchfield Memorial Student Loan Fund Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Fidelity Foundation

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 Flora Hornbeck Scholarship Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Flora Hornbeck Scholarship Tr. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 40 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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