· Private foundation
James J & Mildred M Postma Scholarship Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DORDT UNIVERSITY | $60,850 |
| NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE | $20,950 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $11,100 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,900 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| IOWA LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $4,000 |
| MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY | $2,400 |
| ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY | $2,350 |
| OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $2,350 |
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $2,350 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-OMAHA | $2,350 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $1,200 |
| DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
26 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DUDORDT UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $249k · revenue +50%
- NCNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +45%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS4× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $3k
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +26%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIESone grant, 2023 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
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…
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
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…
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…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Augustana College and the most unlike its peers is Northwestern College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Paul & Mary Collins Trust · A L Steinke Perpetual Scholarship · United Way Worldwide · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization James J & Mildred M Postma Scholarship Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oral Roberts University — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.