Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Varnum-De Rose Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $425k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Varnum-De Rose Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $419k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $494k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $530k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $489k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $385k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $342k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Phillips Academy | $350,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Yale University | $300,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Jose Limon Dance Foundation Inc | $260,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Arthritis Foundation Inc | $97,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St George's Society of New York | $90,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Cornell University | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dorot Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Prostate Action Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 57% |
| Shiloh Baptist Church | $71,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Center for Community Alternatives Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($396k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Varnum-De Rose Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Varnum-De Rose Trust
- How much does Varnum-De Rose Trust give?
- Varnum-De Rose Trust reported 22 grants totaling $425,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Varnum-De Rose Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Religion (23%), Health (16%).
- Who are Varnum-De Rose Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Trustees of Phillips Academy ($350k), Yale University ($300k), Jose Limon Dance Foundation Inc ($260k).
- Does Varnum-De Rose Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Varnum-De Rose Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Varnum-De Rose Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Varnum-De Rose Trust based?
- Varnum-De Rose Trust is based in PA.
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