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Wollman Scholarship Fund

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2026
9
Organizations funded FY2025
67%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 11
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
3
Total assets, FY2026
$173k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 67% of the organizations Wollman Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
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
FY2026still arriving9$10k33%
FY20259$11k67%
FY202411$13k27%
FY202310$15k40%
FY202211$13k55%
FY202110$15kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Education$77k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vanderbilt University$7,00040%
Trevecca Nazarene University$5,00030%
Lipscomb University$3,00030%
Lee University$2,00020%
University of Southern Mississippi$2,0002n/a
Southeastern University Inc$2,00020%
Motlow State Community College$2,0002n/a
Milligan University$2,00020%
Life University Inc$1,50010%
Maryville College$1,00010%
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All grantees of Wollman Scholarship Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vanderbilt University$7,00040%
Trevecca Nazarene University$5,00030%
Lipscomb University$3,00030%
Lee University$2,00020%
University of Southern Mississippi$2,0002n/a
Southeastern University Inc$2,00020%
Motlow State Community College$2,0002n/a
Milligan University$2,00020%
Life University Inc$1,50010%
Maryville College$1,00010%
Trustees of Purdue University$1,0001n/a
University of the South$1,00010%
Nova Southeastern University Inc$1,00010%

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrevecca Nazarene University: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLipscomb University: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLee University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern University Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMilligan University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLife University Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the South: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $1,000 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 10.

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 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · Cv Maybelle and John I Holland Scholarship · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Lilly Endowment Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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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How do I get to Wollman Scholarship Fund?

Find your warmest path to Wollman Scholarship Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Wollman Scholarship Fund

How much does Wollman Scholarship Fund give?
Wollman Scholarship Fund reported 9 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does Wollman Scholarship Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Wollman Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Vanderbilt University ($7k), Trevecca Nazarene University ($5k), Lipscomb University ($3k).
Does Wollman Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wollman Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wollman Scholarship Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Folds of Honor Foundation, Cv Maybelle and John I Holland Scholarship, National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Where is Wollman Scholarship Fund based?
Wollman Scholarship Fund is based in AL.

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 32 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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