· Private foundation
Van Doren Scholarship Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RANDEEP BHATTIA CO NJ INSTITUTE OF TECH | $5,000 |
| GEORGE CARTER CO BOSTON COLLEGE | $4,500 |
| IVEY MISTELE CO UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $4,000 |
| GABRIELA SILVA CO VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| DANA SILVA CO VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| MADELINE BABULA CO VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| WENDY CALLAGHAN CO CARNEGIE MELLON | $2,500 |
| AVA ROLLINO CO UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $2,500 |
| JAMES FINEN CO ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| SANJANA BHATTA CO UNIVERSITY OF NORTH | $2,500 |
| JINGING LOU CO YALE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| JULIA SKARLAK CO LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| CHRISTINA & JEFFREY ZAUN CO YALE | $2,000 |
| ANEESH KARUPPUR CO UNIV OF PENNSYLVANI | $2,000 |
| RICHARD IMOSSI CO VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +36%- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +0%
Fairfield University2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- MHMARK HUAMANI CO UNIVERSITY OF RICHMONDone grant, 2022 · $6k
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +33%- MHMARK HUAMANI CO UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERNone grant, 2023 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Van Doren Scholarship Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Van Doren Scholarship Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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