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Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$109k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,111
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,112
Organizations funded a year
13 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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 arriving15$109k27%
FY202416$114k25%
FY202314$97k29%
FY202216$130k25%
FY202116$96k25%
FY202016$111k100%
FY201913$112k23%
FY201814$112k36%
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$905kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gettysburg College$37,06830%
Bucknell University$21,93130%
Carson-Newman University$21,93130%
Delaware Valley University$21,93130%
Shenandoah University$14,93420%
McDaniel College Inc$14,93420%
King's College$14,49720%
Washington & Jefferson College$14,18220%
Lebanon Valley College$13,99310%
Desales University$12,63820%
Show all 17 grantees

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($753k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGettysburg College: $37,068 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $21,931 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarson-Newman University: $21,931 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Valley University: $21,931 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShenandoah University: $14,934 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMcDaniel College Inc: $14,934 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKing's College: $14,497 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington & Jefferson College: $14,182 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLebanon Valley College: $13,993 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDesales University: $12,638 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Lynchburg: $7,434 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaynesburg University: $7,434 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia University: $7,434 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElizabethtown College: $7,434 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWentworth Institute of Technology Inc: $7,434 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $6,997 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMethodist University Inc: $6,997 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 17.

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.

Folds of Honor FoundationOK15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund

How much does Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund give?
Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund reported 15 grants totaling $109,222 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (91%).
Who are Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gettysburg College ($37k), Bucknell University ($22k), Carson-Newman University ($22k).
Does Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Folds of Honor Foundation, Tulsa Community Foundation, National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Where is Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund based?
Vernon S Lehr Scholarship Fund is based in PA.

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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