Iowa · Private foundation
John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $170k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 11% of the organizations John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $170k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $166k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $167k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $178k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $209k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $270k | 7% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $257k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Trustees of Anatolia College | $145,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation | $104,200 | 5 | 1% |
| Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Edmundson Art Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Skidmore College | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Drake University | $39,000 | 7 | 0% |
| James B Morris Scholarship Fund Inc | $36,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Grand View University | $31,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hellenic College Inc | $27,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Endowment Fund Incorporated | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($741k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · W D & Shirley Schafer-Ray Educational Trust · Marguerite V Brown · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · MidAmerican Energy Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Bookey Family Foundation · Krause Gentle Foundation · Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation
How this is measured
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About John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation
- How much does John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation give?
- John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $170,317 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (92%), Arts & Culture (5%), Philanthropy (2%).
- Who are John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Trustees of Anatolia College ($145k), Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation ($104k), Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc ($75k).
- Does John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust, Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr, Pella Rolscreen Foundation.
- Where is John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation based?
- John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation is based in IA.
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