· Private foundation
Porter Edwin M Educational Fund
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $4,200 |
| SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,900 |
| COLUMBIA COLLEGE | $1,900 |
| WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $500 |
| MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI3× · 2022–2024 · $29k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA3× · 2020–2025 · $15k
- MUMaryville University - St Louis7× · 2019–2026 · $11k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- CCCOLUMBIA COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -18%
- SISOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALEone grant, 2025 · $2k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKSone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
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.
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.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
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…
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Porter Edwin M Educational Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Porter Edwin M Educational Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
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