New York · Private foundation
King Scholarship Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $22k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $626k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations King Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $22k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $20k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $24k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $18k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $18k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $19k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $19k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $19k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houghton University | $15,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Alfred University | $13,050 | 9 | 0% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $11,150 | 5 | 0% |
| Le Moyne College | $10,350 | 5 | 0% |
| Niagara University | $9,050 | 4 | 0% |
| Suny Cortland | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Messiah University | $5,850 | 4 | 0% |
| Central College | $5,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Nazareth University | $5,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Hartwick College | $3,900 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houghton University | $15,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Alfred University | $13,050 | 9 | 0% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $11,150 | 5 | 0% |
| Le Moyne College | $10,350 | 5 | 0% |
| Niagara University | $9,050 | 4 | 0% |
| Suny Cortland | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Messiah University | $5,850 | 4 | 0% |
| Central College | $5,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Nazareth University | $5,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Hartwick College | $3,900 | 4 | 0% |
| Wells College | $3,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Syracuse University | $3,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Keuka College | $3,050 | 2 | 0% |
| Mercyhurst University | $2,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Clarkson University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grand Canyon University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Colgate University | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $1,350 | 2 | 0% |
| Roberts Wesleyan University | $1,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Eastern Nazarene College | $1,150 | 1 | 0% |
| American University | $1,150 | 1 | 0% |
| Paul Smiths College | $1,150 | 1 | 0% |
| Berklee College of Music Inc | $900 | 1 | 0% |
| Cayuga Community College | $750 | 1 | n/a |
| Cornell University | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| State University of New York at Binghamton | $750 | 1 | n/a |
| Chapman University | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Ithaca College | $600 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget King Scholarship Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Jessie H Baker Educational Fund · Verizon Foundation · Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960 · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · W H Coe Medical & Surgical Fund 18363900 · Guenther Scholarship Fund the 003307 · Tw Lk Mills & Tr Mills Scholar Tr · The Greater Norwich Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About King Scholarship Fund
- How much does King Scholarship Fund give?
- King Scholarship Fund reported 10 grants totaling $22,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does King Scholarship Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Arts & Culture (0%).
- Who are King Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houghton University ($16k), Alfred University ($13k), Rochester Institute of Technology ($11k).
- Does King Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does King Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as King Scholarship Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jessie H Baker Educational Fund, Verizon Foundation, Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960.
- Where is King Scholarship Fund based?
- King Scholarship Fund is based in NY.
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