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Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$121k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$11,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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
FY2025still arriving8$121k0%
FY20248$107k0%
FY20239$120k11%
FY202211$118k27%
FY20217$101k14%
FY20208$96k13%
FY201913$107k8%
FY201811$102k27%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.0MHealth$4k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Drake University$72,00080%
Central College$59,37590%
Morningside University$14,00040%
Allen College$12,50040%
University of Dubuque$12,00030%
Simpson College$11,37530%
Northwestern College$9,75030%
Wartburg College$9,00030%
Southwestern Community College$8,0002n/a
Mercy College of Health Sciences$4,00010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($805k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDrake University: $72,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCentral College: $59,375 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMorningside University: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAllen College: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dubuque: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSimpson College: $11,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern College: $9,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWartburg College: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy College of Health Sciences: $4,000 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.

W D & Shirley Schafer-Ray Educational TrustIA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: W D & Shirley Schafer-Ray Educational Trust · Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · Meyerhoff Charitable Trust · Willard E and Ella P Thompson Educational Fund · Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr · Dean J King Family Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust

How much does Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust give?
Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust reported 8 grants totaling $120,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Health (0%).
Who are Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Drake University ($72k), Central College ($59k), Morningside University ($14k).
Does Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include W D & Shirley Schafer-Ray Educational Trust, Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust, Meyerhoff Charitable Trust.
Where is Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust based?
Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust is based in IA.

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 19 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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