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J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,050
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$137k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
EducationOther
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 arriving5$5k0%
FY20248$6k38%
FY202310$8k30%
FY20226$9k33%
FY202110$8k30%
FY20207$8k57%
FY201910$5k50%
FY20186$5k33%
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$60k

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
Indian Hills Community College$6,06243%
Central College$4,45240%
William Penn University$3,81040%
St Ambrose University$1,62520%
Creighton University$1,50020%
Coe College$1,41340%
Wartburg College$1,30010%
Loras College$1,00010%
Iowa Wesleyan University$1,00020%
Northwestern College$94520%
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All grantees of J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indian Hills Community College$6,06243%
Central College$4,45240%
William Penn University$3,81040%
St Ambrose University$1,62520%
Creighton University$1,50020%
Coe College$1,41340%
Wartburg College$1,30010%
Loras College$1,00010%
Iowa Wesleyan University$1,00020%
Northwestern College$94520%
Simpson College$75010%
Drake University$53010%
Luther College$53010%
Grand View University$52020%
University of Dubuque$50010%
University of Sioux Falls$35010%
Mound Farm Holdings Inc$22810%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndian Hills Community College: $6,062 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCentral College: $4,452 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Penn University: $3,810 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Ambrose University: $1,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoe College: $1,413 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWartburg College: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoras College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Wesleyan University: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern College: $945 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSimpson College: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDrake University: $530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLuther College: $530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand View University: $520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dubuque: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Sioux Falls: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMound Farm Holdings Inc: $228 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 17.

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.

Fahrney Education Fdtn TrustWI22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Special Needs Foundation of Des Moines County · Iowa College Foundation · Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust · Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust · Moore Scholarship Trust · The Eagle Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn

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 J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust

How much does J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust give?
J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust reported 5 grants totaling $5,001 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Indian Hills Community College ($6k), Central College ($4k), William Penn University ($4k).
Does J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust, Roy J Carver Charitable Trust, Pella Rolscreen Foundation.
Where is J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust based?
J Ralph And Gladys Meier 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 28 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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