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Mahana-Cong Church Scholar Found
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $22,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $22,000 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,250 |
| IOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $5,500 |
| SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS | $5,500 |
| BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| TEACHERS COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO | $5,500 |
| BRADLEY UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $5,500 |
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- CCCORNELL COLLEGE4× · 2020–2023 · $19k · revenue +15%
- BCBRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +11%
- UOUniversity of the Incarnate Word2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- NINORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $8k
- LULIBERTY UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +8%
- CCCOE COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +8%
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.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
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.
Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…
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…
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
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…
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upper Iowa University and the most unlike its peers is Teachers College Columbia University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 40 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 CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UPPER IOWA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Buena Vista University ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
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 · Willard E and Ella P Thompson Educational Fund · Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · Marguerite V Brown · W E Ruebush Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · United Way Worldwide · Louis J Elbert Trust · Joseph J Sinek Scholarship Trust · Bernice E Peterson Scholarship Trust · Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr · Iowa College 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 Mahana-Cong Church Scholar Found 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.
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.
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