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Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$109,063
Organizations funded a year
3 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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$134k25%
FY20243$127k0%
FY20235$179k40%
FY20224$159k0%
FY20217$102k14%
FY202010$97k30%
FY20199$84k33%
FY201810$93k30%
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$1.1M

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
Kansas State University$48,5006n/a
Worcester Polytechnic Institute$38,50040%
Dordt University$32,55030%
Loras College$28,20130%
Drake University$27,00040%
Florida Institute of Technology Inc$18,00030%
Indian Hills Community College$16,19148%
Cornell College$13,20120%
William Penn University$7,09520%
Coe College$5,00010%
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All grantees of Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kansas State University$48,5006n/a
Worcester Polytechnic Institute$38,50040%
Dordt University$32,55030%
Loras College$28,20130%
Drake University$27,00040%
Florida Institute of Technology Inc$18,00030%
Indian Hills Community College$16,19148%
Cornell College$13,20120%
William Penn University$7,09520%
Coe College$5,00010%
Southwestern Community College$2,5001n/a

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($824k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorcester Polytechnic Institute: $38,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDordt University: $32,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLoras College: $28,201 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDrake University: $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Institute of Technology Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Hills Community College: $16,191 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetCornell College: $13,201 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Penn University: $7,095 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoe College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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About Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust

How much does Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust give?
Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust reported 4 grants totaling $134,113 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kansas State University ($49k), Worcester Polytechnic Institute ($39k), Dordt University ($33k).
Does Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust based?
Ruth & Rino Della Vedova Scholarship Trust is based in WI.

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 20 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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