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Porter Edwin M Educational Fund

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2026
6
Organizations funded FY2025
50%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$1,900
Largest grant, FY2026
$4,200
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
3
Total assets, FY2026
$221k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 50% of the organizations Porter Edwin M Educational Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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
FY2026still arriving5$9k20%
FY20256$12k50%
FY20244$21k0%
FY20236$19k17%
FY20226$19k33%
FY20217$12k43%
FY20205$9k60%
FY20194$7k75%
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$103kRecreation & Sports$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Maryville University - St Louis$11,08070%
Central Methodist University$6,20030%
Columbia College$4,00010%
Culver-Stockton College$3,41020%
Hannibal LaGrange University$3,00020%
Columbia College$1,9001n/a
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale$1,7501n/a
Southwest Baptist University$1,23010%
College of the Ozarks$25010%
William Woods University$25010%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Porter Edwin M Educational Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $11,080 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Methodist University: $6,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCulver-Stockton College: $3,410 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHannibal LaGrange University: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Baptist University: $1,230 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of the Ozarks: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Woods University: $250 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 8.

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.

Missouri Colleges Fund IncMO17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Missouri Colleges Fund Inc · Hardin Memorial Scholarship Foundation · T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation · Griffin Family Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Bour Memorial Scholarship Fund American National Bank of Texas · Jl & Da Hays Memorial Scholarship Trust · Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust · Brent Taylor Perpetual Char Trust Mercantile Bank Trustee · William Edgar Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Porter Edwin M Educational Fund

How much does Porter Edwin M Educational Fund give?
Porter Edwin M Educational Fund reported 5 grants totaling $9,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Porter Edwin M Educational Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (95%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
Who are Porter Edwin M Educational Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Maryville University - St Louis ($11k), Central Methodist University ($6k), Columbia College ($4k).
Does Porter Edwin M Educational Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Porter Edwin M Educational Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Porter Edwin M Educational Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Missouri Colleges Fund Inc, Hardin Memorial Scholarship Foundation, T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust.
Where is Porter Edwin M Educational Fund based?
Porter Edwin M Educational Fund is based in MN.

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 25 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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