· Private foundation
Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $23,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $13,000 |
| CENTRAL COLLEGE | $11,000 |
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| MARSHALLTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| ALLEN COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| GRINNELL COLLEGE | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DRAKE UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $72k · revenue +11%- CCCENTRAL COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +7%
- MUMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2022 · $14k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- MCMERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCESone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +5%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXASone grant, 2023 · $4k
- DMDES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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,…
The mission of eckerd college is to provide excellent innovative undergraduate liberal arts education and lifelong learning programs in the unique florida environment, within the context of a covenant relationship with the presbyterian…
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…
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 - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
How this is measured
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 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gwendolyn and Lucian L Hinecker Scholarship Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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