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Jefferson Ethel Scholarship Trust #1038

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$78k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Jefferson Ethel Scholarship Trust #1038 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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$78k100%
FY20241$81k100%
FY202314$96k100%
FY202216$88k50%
FY202112$70k50%
FY202024$82k63%
FY201921$76k67%
FY201821$72k48%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$708k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Messiah University$8,00010%
Widener University$8,00010%
Saint Joseph's University$6,00010%
University of Miami$4,000145%
University of Scranton$4,00010%
University of Pittsburgh$4,00010%

Plus 100 recipients with no EIN on record ($674k), not named here.

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About Jefferson Ethel Scholarship Trust #1038

How much does Jefferson Ethel Scholarship Trust #1038 give?
Jefferson Ethel Scholarship Trust #1038 reported 14 grants totaling $78,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Jefferson Ethel Scholarship Trust #1038 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Jefferson Ethel Scholarship Trust #1038's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Messiah University ($8k), Widener University ($8k), Saint Joseph's University ($6k).
Does Jefferson Ethel Scholarship Trust #1038 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jefferson Ethel Scholarship Trust #1038 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Jefferson Ethel Scholarship Trust #1038 based?
Jefferson Ethel Scholarship Trust #1038 is based in PA.

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 106 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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