· 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $55,000 |
| JOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH OF NEWARK | $25,000 |
| PROSTATE ACTION INC | $25,000 |
| ST GEORGES SOCIETY OF NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| DOROT INC | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES | $20,000 |
| KIDS IN CLEATS INC | $20,000 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF SOUTHAMPTON | $12,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SOUTHAMPTON | $12,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| DUTCHESS COUNTY SPCA INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 +23% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JLJOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +49%
- AFARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $97k · revenue +7%
Cornell University3× · 2021–2023 · $85k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SBSHILOH BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $26k
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +16%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +78%
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.
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 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 PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WEVE GOT FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LYME DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Varnum-De Rose Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Varnum-De Rose Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Montclair Art Museum: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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