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James J & Mildred M Postma Scholarship Fund at a glance

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James J & Mildred M Postma Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$139k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$773kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$2,400
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DORDT UNIVERSITY$60,850
NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE$20,950
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$11,100
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY$9,900
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$8,000
DRAKE UNIVERSITY$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$4,000
IOWA LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE$4,000
MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY$2,400
ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY$2,350
GROVE CITY COLLEGE$2,350
OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY$2,350
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-OMAHA$2,350
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA$1,200
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$1,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-OMAHA: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $4k → 11%SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%GROVE CITY COLLEGE: $2k → 13%ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%NORTHWEST IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 8%MOUNT MERCY: $2k → 9%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 10%IOWA LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $11k → 15%HOPE COLLEGE: $2k → 10%Calvin College: $2k → 11%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 13%Lipscomb University: $2k → 14%OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $6k → 9%DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $5k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $3k → 11%ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%MOUNT MERCY: $2k → 9%IOWA LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $7k → 15%Calvin University: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $6k → 9%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $7k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $3k → 9%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $4k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $2k → 9%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 13%NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $27k → 8%SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $21k → 8%NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $18k → 8%NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $12k → 8%SOUTHEAST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $3k → 9%NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $11k → 8%NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $11k → 8%DORDT UNIVERSITY: $61k → 8%DORDT UNIVERSITY: $58k → 8%DORDT COLLEGE: $35k → 8%DORDT UNIVERSITY: $34k → 8%DORDT COLLEGE: $31k → 8%DORDT COLLEGE: $30k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
MI
WY
SD
IA
OH
PA
CO
NE
AZ
KS
TN
OK
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$558k · 26 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
11

Total granted

$558k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+27%

Still filing today

38%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • DU
    DORDT UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $249k · revenue +50%
  • NC
    NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +45%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • LU
    LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +26%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ashland University

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…

Education
2
Excelsior University

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…

Education
3
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
4
Greenville College

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.

Education
5
Union College

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.

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Simpson College

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.

Education
8
Hilbert College

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…

Education
9
Houghton University

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…

Education
10
Lehigh University

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…

Education
11
Xavier University

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…

Education
12
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Augustana College; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DORDT UNIVERSITY: $249,090 · EducationDORDT UNIVERSITYNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $99,692 · EducationNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE+14 more: $57,868 · Education+14 moreIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $33,300 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $31,486 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWASOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $26,550 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $15,300 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTAIOWA LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $7,100 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $7,100 · OtherDAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $6,418 · Other+15 more: $46,550 · Other+15 more
Education$406,650Other$173,804

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY: $249,090 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $99,692 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $11,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $11,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY: $6,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $4,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY: $1,568 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Christian University: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Paul & Mary Collins T…A L Steinke Perpetual…United Way WorldwideFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paul & Mary Collins TrustMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paul & Mary Collins Trust · A L Steinke Perpetual Scholarship · United Way Worldwide · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization James J & Mildred M Postma Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James J & Mildred M Postma Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oral Roberts University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 38 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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