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Margaret Nelson Castle Vo-Tech Scholarship Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2026
8
Organizations funded FY2025
25%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$2,390
Largest grant, FY2026
$3,305
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$168k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 25% of the organizations Margaret Nelson Castle Vo-Tech Scholarship Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving5$10k40%
FY20258$10k25%
FY20245$10k0%
FY20239$11k22%
FY20223$9k0%
FY20216$10k17%
FY20203$9k33%
FY20196$9k50%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Education$94kFood & Nutrition$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johnson County Community College$2,1513n/a
Kansas State University$6081n/a

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.

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.

The Pete Henry FoundationKS18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pete Henry Foundation · Kenneth J Castle Charitable Trust · Donald R Pitts & Zelma C Pitts · Margaret Nelson Castle College · David and Mary P Rush Educational Trust · Bill & Julia Thomas Charitable · Paul Brassfield Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Margaret Nelson Castle Vo-Tech Scholarship Trust

How much does Margaret Nelson Castle Vo-Tech Scholarship Trust give?
Margaret Nelson Castle Vo-Tech Scholarship Trust reported 5 grants totaling $9,736 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Margaret Nelson Castle Vo-Tech Scholarship Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (98%), Food & Nutrition (2%).
Who are Margaret Nelson Castle Vo-Tech Scholarship Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Johnson County Community College ($2k), Kansas State University ($608).
Does Margaret Nelson Castle Vo-Tech Scholarship Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Margaret Nelson Castle Vo-Tech Scholarship Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Margaret Nelson Castle Vo-Tech Scholarship Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pete Henry Foundation, Kenneth J Castle Charitable Trust, Donald R Pitts & Zelma C Pitts.
Where is Margaret Nelson Castle Vo-Tech Scholarship Trust based?
Margaret Nelson Castle Vo-Tech Scholarship Trust is based in KS.

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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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