· Private foundation
Moon Jack Scholarship Trust
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| MINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| FOND DU LAC TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $5,789 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE | $5,789 |
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 — 5 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LSLake Superior College3× · 2019–2025 · $673k
- LSLAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $123k · revenue +67%
- FDFond du Lac Tribal and Community College3× · 2019–2025 · $83k
Funded once
- TCTHE CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2018 · $465k
- WIWisconsin Indianhead Technical Collegeone grant, 2019 · $46k
- LSLAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE FBOone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
The ntc foundation develops relationships that enable individuals, businesses and the community to advocate for and provide resources in support of northcentral technical college in accomplishing its mission.
To assist the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers and communities within our service area.
The mission of the North Central State Foundation is to assist the College in providing life long learning opportunities by securing financial and community support.
To provide student scholarships and grants, and to support education programs of the college.
To improve the quality of life in our community and enhance awareness of the college and foundation
The minneapolis community & technical college foundation helps solve issues of affordability and access to higher education through scholarships and initiatives that support students, enhance the readiness of our workforce and support the…
The mission of the North Hennepin Community College Foundation is to create access to quality educational opportunities by energizing and mobilizing community, college, and alumni resources on behalf of North Hennepin Community College.
To facilitate and encourage gifts to fort scott community college to support the college's mission to provide a higher education to students.
To support scholarships, and capital and special projects for st. clair community college.
Encourages improvement of education at our college and making higher education accessible.
MCCF supports MCC's mission through community awareness and providing giving opportunities that support faculty and programs, while offering student scholarships and emergency aid to promote successful completion of their education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pine Technical & Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Center for Scholarship Administration. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
1 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. 1 of the 117 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Moon Jack Scholarship Trust 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.