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Van Doren Scholarship Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 19
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$652k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Van Doren Scholarship Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 arriving20$49k35%
FY202418$51k50%
FY202318$47k39%
FY202219$47k100%
FY20218$22k38%
FY20208$26kn/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$258kScience & Tech$12kRecreation & Sports$5kArts & Culture$100

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC

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
Georgetown University$8,00020%
California Institute of Technology$7,00020%
Yale University$5,5002n/a
Northwestern University$5,00010%
Fairfield University$4,00020%
The Trustees of Princeton University$3,00010%
University of Washington$2,5001n/a
University of Richmond$2,00010%
Duke University$1,50010%
Carnegie Mellon University$50010%
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All grantees of Van Doren Scholarship Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Georgetown University$8,00020%
California Institute of Technology$7,00020%
Yale University$5,5002n/a
Northwestern University$5,00010%
Fairfield University$4,00020%
The Trustees of Princeton University$3,00010%
University of Washington$2,5001n/a
University of Richmond$2,00010%
Duke University$1,50010%
Carnegie Mellon University$50010%
Trilogy Repertory Inc$1001n/a

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($202k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGeorgetown University: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Institute of Technology: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Richmond: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $500 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 8.

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About Van Doren Scholarship Trust

How much does Van Doren Scholarship Trust give?
Van Doren Scholarship Trust reported 20 grants totaling $48,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Van Doren Scholarship Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (94%), Science & Tech (4%), Recreation & Sports (2%).
Who are Van Doren Scholarship Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Georgetown University ($8k), California Institute of Technology ($7k), Yale University ($6k).
Does Van Doren Scholarship Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Van Doren Scholarship Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Van Doren Scholarship Trust based?
Van Doren Scholarship Trust is based in NJ.

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 58 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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