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Thayer Family Scholarship Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$90k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
44%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 18
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Thayer Family Scholarship Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’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 arriving12$78k17%
FY202416$151k44%
FY202312$97k33%
FY20229$135k11%
FY202118$240k100%
FY20201$3kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$721kEnvironment$8k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
CT
MO
DE
NC
SC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Boston University$75,75040%
Cornell University$47,50050%
Oberlin College$47,00030%
Paul Smiths College$26,00010%
Trustees of Tufts College$24,25020%
Hartwick College$22,75030%
St Lawrence University$17,25030%
Eckerd College$15,75030%
Northeastern University$9,50010%
Michigan State University$9,5001n/a
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All grantees of Thayer Family Scholarship Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Boston University$75,75040%
Cornell University$47,50050%
Oberlin College$47,00030%
Paul Smiths College$26,00010%
Trustees of Tufts College$24,25020%
Hartwick College$22,75030%
St Lawrence University$17,25030%
Eckerd College$15,75030%
Northeastern University$9,50010%
Michigan State University$9,5001n/a
Keuka College$7,75020%
University of Delaware$7,75020%
Hobart and William Smith Colleges$3,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($390k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thayer Family Scholarship Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Boston University: $75,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College: $47,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPaul Smiths College: $26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $24,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College: $22,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Lawrence University: $17,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEckerd College: $15,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern University: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeuka College: $7,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Delaware: $7,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHobart and William Smith Colleges: $3,000 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 12.

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About Thayer Family Scholarship Trust

How much does Thayer Family Scholarship Trust give?
Thayer Family Scholarship Trust reported 13 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Thayer Family Scholarship Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Environment (1%).
Who are Thayer Family Scholarship Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Trustees of Boston University ($76k), Cornell University ($48k), Oberlin College ($47k).
Does Thayer Family Scholarship Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thayer Family Scholarship Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Thayer Family Scholarship Trust based?
Thayer Family Scholarship Trust is based in OH.

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 34 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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