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Highway Hero Honoree Scholarship

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$125k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,250
Median grant
3
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FBO DELANEY PIPKIN$3,750
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI FBO OLIVIA NELSON$2,500
MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO LOGAN DAME$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,250
Individual grant recipient$1,250
ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FBO SETH COPELAND$1,250
Individual grant recipient$1,250
Individual grant recipient$1,250
Individual grant recipient$1,250
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$106k · 16 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
7

Total granted

$106k
$15k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • SM
    SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FBO FAITH GRANT
    3× · 2019–2021 · $10k
  • MU
    MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY FBO CHLOE PIPKIN
    5× · 2019–2023 · $10k
  • AS
    ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FBO SETH COPELAND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $10k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • SM
    SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FBO GERICA HARRIS
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 26 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)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FBO FAITH GRANT: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FBO FAITH GRANTMARYVILLE UNIVERSITY FBO CHLOE PIPKIN: $10,000 · OtherMARYVILLE UNIVERSITY FBO CHLOE PIPKINARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FBO SETH COPELAND: $10,000 · OtherARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FBO SETH COPELANDUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI FBO KATE WYMAN: $8,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI FBO KATE WYMANBAYLOR UNIVERSITY FBO MASON BURRAGE-BURTON: $8,750 · OtherBAYLOR UNIVERSITY FBO MASON BURRAGE-BURTONSOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FBO GRIFFIN KING: $8,750 · OtherSOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FBO GRIFFIN KINGMISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FBO DELANEY PIPKIN: $7,500 · OtherMISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FBO DELANEY PIPKINIndividual grant recipient: $6,250 · OtherMISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FBO SHELBY HODGKISS: $6,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI FBO OLIVIA NELSON: $6,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+14 more: $32,500 · Other+14 more
Other$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Highway Hero Honoree Scholarship?

Find your warmest path to Highway Hero Honoree Scholarship 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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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