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W Leroy and Mildred McCurdy Charitable Trust at a glance

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W Leroy and Mildred McCurdy Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$88k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$262kEducation$150kHuman Services$23kArts & Culture$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kMembership Benefit$4kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
$4,418
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDAMERICAN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY$17,672
KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BIBLE COLLEGE$17,672
WORLD GOSPEL MISSION$12,371
KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BIBLE COLLEGE$8,836
GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL$7,953
FREMONT COMMUNITY CHURCH$4,418
IOWA NAZERENE MISSIONARY SOCIETY$4,418
MAHASKA COUNTY OUTREACH$4,418
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY$3,534
WHITE OAK CEMETARY ASSOCIATION$1,767
MAHASKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,767
FREMONT AMBULANCE LTD$1,767
IOWA HOLINESS ASSOCIATION$1,767
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MAHASKA COUNTY OUTREACH: $5k → 10%MAHASKA COUNTY OUTREACH: $5k → 10%MAHASKA COUNTY OUTREACH: $5k → 10%MAHASKA COUNTY OUTREACH: $4k → 10%MAHASKA COUNTY OUTREACH: $4k → 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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$424k · 16 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
3

Total granted

$424k
$38k

Still filing today

31%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • KM
    KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BIBLE COLLEGE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $83k · revenue +64%
  • MN
    MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $57k · revenue +4%
  • MC
    MAHASKA COUNTY OUTREACH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • MA
    MID AMERICAN NAZERENE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
  • MA
    MID AMERICAN NAZARENE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
  • IS
    IOWA STATE HOLINESS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Iowa Wesleyan University: $57,214 · OtherIowa Wesleyan UniversityGIDEONS INTERNATIONAL: $41,918 · OtherGIDEONS INTERNATIONALWORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $39,826 · OtherWORLD GOSPEL MISSIONWORLD GOSPEL MISSIONS: $25,379 · OtherWORLD GOSPEL MISSIONSIOWA NAZERENE MISSIONARY SOCIETY: $23,287 · OtherIOWA NAZERENE MISSIONARY SOCIETYMID AMERICAN NAZERENE COLLEGE: $18,267 · OtherMID AMERICAN NAZERENE COLLEGEMID AMERICAN NAZARENE COLLEGE: $17,988 · OtherMID AMERICAN NAZARENE COLLEGEAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $15,094 · OtherFREMONT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $14,304 · Other+7 more: $46,243 · Other+7 moreKENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BIBLE COLLEGE INC: $82,509 · EducationKENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BIBLE COLLEGE I…MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $56,893 · EducationMIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITYMAHASKA COUNTY OUTREACH INC: $23,288 · Human ServicesAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $3,534 · Religion
Other$299,520Education$139,402Human Services$23,288Religion$3,534

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 budgetKENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BIBLE COLLEGE INC: $82,509 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetIowa Wesleyan University: $57,214 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $56,893 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAHASKA COUNTY OUTREACH INC: $23,288 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetMAHASKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,315 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $3,534 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 KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BIBLE COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Iowa Wesleyan University ↗
  • Who funds MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MAHASKA COUNTY OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds MAHASKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization W Leroy and Mildred McCurdy Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Leroy and Mildred McCurdy Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to W Leroy and Mildred McCurdy Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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