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Moore Scholarship Trust at a glance

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Moore Scholarship Trust

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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$233kHealth$150
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,014
Median grant
3
States reached
$486k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$9,164
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY$2,179
CENTRAL COLLEGE$2,029
ELMHURST COLLEGE$1,014
WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY$1,014
CORNELL COLLEGE$150
IOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE$150
BLACK HAWK EAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE$150
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$150
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 (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $860 → 10%WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%CLARKE UNIVERSITY: $200 → 11%IOWA CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $200 → 13%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $2k → 15%INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 16%GRACELAND UNIVERSITY: $550 → 18%TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 28%GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%DES MOINES UNIVERSITY: $860 → 10%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

ND
IL
SD
IA
NE
MO
KS
TX
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.
$223k · 21 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
10

Total granted

$223k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+31%

Still filing today

38%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionOther
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

  • IH
    INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +28%
  • WP
    WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +43%
  • SC
    Simpson College
    4× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • CU
    Creighton Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +44%
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
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
2
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
3
Dordt University

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…

Education
4
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Augustana University Association

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.

Education
7
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
8
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
9
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
10
California Lutheran University

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.

Education
11
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Ambrose University; the most unlike its peers is Indian Hills Community 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

15 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. 15 of the 34 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)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA: $50,725 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWAINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $43,924 · OtherINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGEIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $31,042 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $18,925 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWADES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6,000 · Other+16 more: $29,028 · Other+16 moreWILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY: $21,839 · EducationWILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITYSimpson College: $14,550 · EducationSimpson CollegeClarke University of Dubuque Iowa: $4,350 · EducationClarke University of Dubu…CENTRAL COLLEGE: $3,529 · EducationCENTRAL COLLEGEGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY: $3,200 · EducationGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITYCreighton University: $2,000 · EducationGRACELAND UNIVERSITY: $1,950 · Education+5 more: $1,860 · EducationMERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $150 · Religion
Other$179,644Education$53,278Religion$150

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $43,924 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetWILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY: $21,839 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSimpson College: $14,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELMHURST UNIVERSITY: $5,082 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClarke University of Dubuque Iowa: $4,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL COLLEGE: $3,529 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACELAND UNIVERSITY: $1,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF KANSAS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBellevue University: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNELL COLLEGE: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $150 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 INDIAN HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Simpson College ↗
  • Who funds ELMHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds GRACELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF KANSAS ↗
  • Who funds Bellevue University ↗
  • Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗

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.

Ottumwa Regional Lega…Harry and Winnie McNa…Fahrney Education Fdt…Roy J Carver Charitab…Ann Piper Scholarship…Rena Fee Welch TrustJ Ralph And Gladys Me…W D & Shirley Schafer…Special Needs Foundat…Bestenlehner D and F …Marguerite V BrownIowa College Foundati…
Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation IncIA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust · Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Ann Piper Scholarship Trust · Rena Fee Welch Trust · J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust · W D & Shirley Schafer-Ray Educational Trust · Special Needs Foundation of Des Moines County · Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr · Marguerite V Brown · Iowa College 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 Moore Scholarship Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Moore Scholarship Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 34 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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