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The Roy H Gerling and Joan Huber Gerling Scholarship Trust at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Private foundation

The Roy H Gerling and Joan Huber Gerling Scholarship Trust

$847
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$535
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its 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 2023.

Education$32k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$535
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Columbus Community Schools$535
Iowa State University FBO Jordan Kay Tiffany$312
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12k · 5 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$12k
$19k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $535 went to new ones.

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

  • UO
    University of Iowa FBO Evelyn Espin
    4× · 2018–2021 · $4k
  • KC
    Kirkwood Comm College FBO Jacob Tif
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k
  • UO
    University of Northern Iowa FBO Gra
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Northern Iowa FBO Ali
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • IS
    Iowa State University FBO Jordan Ka
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • UO
    University of Northern Iowa FBO Ali Mackintosh
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2023.

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 2023, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Iowa FBO Evelyn Espin: $3,750 · OtherUniversity of Iowa FBO Evelyn EspinKirkwood Comm College FBO Jacob Tif: $2,500 · OtherKirkwood Comm College FBO Jacob TifUniversity of Northern Iowa FBO Ali: $2,500 · OtherUniversity of Northern Iowa FBO AliUniversity of Northern Iowa FBO Gra: $2,500 · OtherUniversity of Northern Iowa FBO GraKirkwood Comm Coll FBO Courtney Zae: $2,500 · OtherKirkwood Comm Coll FBO Courtney ZaeIowa State University FBO Jordan Ka: $1,875 · OtherIowa State University FBO Jordan KaUniversity of Northern Iowa FBO Ali Mackintosh: $1,250 · OtherKirkwood Comm Colge FBO Courtney Za: $1,250 · OtherIowa State University FBO Mauricio Ramirez: $1,250 · OtherUniversity of Iowa FBO Evelyn Espinoza Leyva: $1,250 · OtherIowa Wesleyan University FBO Courtn: $1,250 · OtherIndian Hills Comm College FBO Kylie Marin: $1,250 · OtherUniversity of Northern Iowa FBO Grace Chapman: $1,250 · OtherKirkwood Comm College FBO Jacob Tiffany: $1,250 · OtherIowa State University FBO Mark Ramirez: $1,250 · OtherUniversity of Iowa FBO Cristian Tiatenchi: $1,250 · Other+5 more: $3,722 · Other+5 more
Other$31,847

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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 21 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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