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Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable 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.

$241k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,450
Largest grant, FY2025
$68,250
Organizations funded a year
16 to 19
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$241k7%
FY202416$211k13%
FY202317$178k12%
FY202218$213k11%
FY202119$173k16%
FY202018$172kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.2M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Ambrose University$165,75060%
Wartburg College$39,35050%
Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa$26,00060%
University of Dubuque$21,20060%
Mound Farm Holdings Inc$18,20050%
Loras College$17,00050%
Coe College$17,00050%
Drake University$13,70040%
Luther College$10,60030%
Cornell College$9,50020%
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All grantees of Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Ambrose University$165,75060%
Wartburg College$39,35050%
Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa$26,00060%
University of Dubuque$21,20060%
Mound Farm Holdings Inc$18,20050%
Loras College$17,00050%
Coe College$17,00050%
Drake University$13,70040%
Luther College$10,60030%
Cornell College$9,50020%
Morningside University$9,00030%
Grand View University$8,25040%
Central College$7,85030%
Simpson College$3,00010%
Upper Iowa University$3,00010%
Augustana College$1,55010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($816k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Ambrose University: $165,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWartburg College: $39,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetClarke University of Dubuque Iowa: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dubuque: $21,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMound Farm Holdings Inc: $18,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLoras College: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCoe College: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDrake University: $13,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLuther College: $10,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell College: $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMorningside University: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGrand View University: $8,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentral College: $7,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSimpson College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Iowa University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAugustana College: $1,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Roy J Carver Charitable TrustIA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Special Needs Foundation of Des Moines County · Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Meyerhoff Charitable Trust · J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust · Marguerite V Brown · W E Ruebush Foundation · Iowa College Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc

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.

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About Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust

How much does Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust give?
Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust reported 14 grants totaling $241,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Ambrose University ($166k), Wartburg College ($39k), Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ($26k).
Does Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust 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 Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Roy J Carver Charitable Trust, Special Needs Foundation of Des Moines County, Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust.
Where is Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust based?
Mount Saint Clare Education Charitable Trust is based in IA.

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 28 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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