· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| LEADERSHIP 100 | $25,000 |
| ANATOLIA COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| HELLENIC COLLEGE HOLY CROSS | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $10,000 |
| PANHELLENIC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DES MOINES UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| HELPING HEROES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VALISSIMA INSTITUTE INC | $5,000 |
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CROSSROAD INSTITUTE | $2,817 |
| DES MOINES SYMPHONY | $2,000 |
| BAY COLONY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE ARCHANGELS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF ANATOLIA COLLEGE7× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +74%
- PSPanhellenic Scholarship Foundation5× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +20%
- EAEdmundson Art Foundation Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- ASAHEPA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k
- PMPINE MANOR COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -98%
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +22%
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.
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.
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Muhlenberg aims to help students become independent thinkers who are intellectually agile, characterized by a zest for reasoned and civil debate, knowledgeable about the achievements and traditions of diverse civilizations and cultures,…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
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.
Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE TRUSTEES OF ANATOLIA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JAMES B MORRIS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PINE MANOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Valissima Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds DMACC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Buena Vista University ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Simpson College ↗
- Who funds CROSSROAD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BETA GAMMA SIGMA INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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