California · Private foundation
Real World Scholars Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $55k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,001
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 169
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $99k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Real World Scholars Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 24 | $55k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $65k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 91 | $108k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 93 | $109k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 83 | $100k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 105 | $83k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 169 | $186k | 72% |
| FY2017 | 147 | $337k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Tech High | $29,326 | 2 | 0% |
| Elizabeth Forward Marching Band Boosters | $11,157 | 3 | n/a |
| LaSalle Springs Middle School PTO1369 | $7,977 | 5 | 2% |
| Blossom Valley PTO | $7,547 | 6 | 4% |
| Startedup Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| South Oceanside Elementary PTO | $6,204 | 2 | 5% |
| Lausanne Collegiate School | $4,942 | 3 | 0% |
| Hamilton County Schools Tn Department of Education | $4,510 | 3 | n/a |
| Ivy Academy Inc | $4,232 | 3 | 0% |
| Ilead Spring Meadows | $3,236 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 111 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 274 recipients with no EIN on record ($901k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Real World Scholars Inc 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: The Grable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Hillman Family Foundations · The Intuit Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Real World Scholars Inc
- How much does Real World Scholars Inc give?
- Real World Scholars Inc reported 24 grants totaling $54,911 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 169 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Real World Scholars Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (71%), Human Services (4%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are Real World Scholars Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: High Tech High ($29k), Elizabeth Forward Marching Band Boosters ($11k), LaSalle Springs Middle School PTO1369 ($8k).
- Does Real World Scholars Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Real World Scholars Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Real World Scholars Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Grable Foundation, The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, The Pittsburgh Foundation.
- Where is Real World Scholars Inc based?
- Real World Scholars Inc is based in CA.
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