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Robert & Ava Lee Maydew Scholarship Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$54k
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 Robert & Ava Lee Maydew Scholarship Trust 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; $2k 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 arriving4$5k50%
FY20242$2k100%
FY20233$3k67%
FY20221$3k100%
FY20212$3k50%
FY20202$2k0%
FY20193$2k100%
FY20183$2k33%
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$23kFood & Nutrition$2k

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
Friends University$1,70320%
Sterling College$1,38320%
Tabor College$1,00010%
Midamerica Nazarene University$1,00010%
Kansas State University$1,0001n/a
Johnson County Community College$1,0001n/a

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), 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.

David and Mary P Rush Educational Trust Co Donald Hoffman TrusteeKS13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: David and Mary P Rush Educational Trust Co Donald Hoffman Trustee · Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust · Kansas Independent College Association · McFadden Charitable Trust · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Robert & Ava Lee Maydew Scholarship Trust

How much does Robert & Ava Lee Maydew Scholarship Trust give?
Robert & Ava Lee Maydew Scholarship Trust reported 4 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Robert & Ava Lee Maydew Scholarship Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (94%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
Who are Robert & Ava Lee Maydew Scholarship Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends University ($2k), Sterling College ($1k), Tabor College ($1k).
Does Robert & Ava Lee Maydew Scholarship Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert & Ava Lee Maydew Scholarship Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert & Ava Lee Maydew Scholarship Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include David and Mary P Rush Educational Trust Co Donald Hoffman Trustee, Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust, Kansas Independent College Association.
Where is Robert & Ava Lee Maydew Scholarship Trust based?
Robert & Ava Lee Maydew 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 15 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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