Van Doren Scholarship Trust
Bedminster, NJ · EIN 22-6666043. Reported 87 grants totalling $235,600 to 54 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Van Doren Scholarship Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,500 and $4,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $6,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Klein Co Rutgers University | Piscataway, NJ | $13,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Randeep Bhattia Co Nj Institute of Tech Nology | Newark, NJ | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Deborah Ludtke Co Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $12,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Patricia Mozeke Co Rider University | Lawrenceville, NJ | $12,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Angelina Xu Co Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $10,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ivey Mistele Co University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | $9,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Aneesh Karuppur Co Univ of Pennsylvani | Philadelphia, PA | $8,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| George Carter Co Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA | $6,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Aimee Hunnewell Co Fairfield University | Fairfield, CT | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fan Huang Co Yale University | New Haven, CT | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mark Huamani Co University of Richmond | Richmond, VA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Massachusetts Institue of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dana Silva Co Villanova University | Villanova, PA | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Wendy Callaghan Co Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mark Huamani Co Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $4,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mark Huamani Co University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rutgers University | New Brunswick, NJ | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Anjali Kapoor Co Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anjali Kapoor Co University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Christina & Jeffrey Zaun Co Yale University | New Haven, CT | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Dawn Grossmith Co University of Pittsbu Rgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Michael Dennis Paulik Co University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Stephen Inasu Co University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, IN | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chris Sommers Co Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $3,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Diana Gulbis Co Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fairfield University | Fairfield, CT | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Matthew Oliveria Co Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Nicole Streger Co Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Richard Imossi Co Villanova University | Villanova, PA | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Umesh Subramanian Co Yale University | New Haven, CT | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Asif Rajwani Co University of Washingto | Seattle, WA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ava Rollino Co University of Maryland | College Park, MD | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Gabriela Silva Co Villanova University | Villanova, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| James Finen Co St Joseph's University | Philadelphia, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jinging Lou Co Yale University | New Haven, CT | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Julia Skarlak Co Lafayette College | Easton, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Madeline Babula Co Villanova University | Villanova, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sanjana Bhatta Co University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fang Sheng Co Princeton Unversity | Princeton, NJ | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Richmond | Richmond, VA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Aravind Krishnan Co University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| David Oliviera Co California Technical University | Pasadena, CA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Devi Karuppur Co Duke University | Durham, NC | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Emma Mistele Co University of Pennsylva Nia | Philadelphia, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kaushik Guha Co Yale University | New Haven, CT | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trilogy Repertory | Basking Ridge, NJ | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
23 of 54 (43%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 54%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 9 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | $42,500 | $3,250 |
| 2022 | 19 | $46,500 | $2,000 |
| 2023 | 18 | $47,100 | $2,000 |
| 2024 | 18 | $51,000 | $2,500 |
| 2025 | 20 | $48,500 | $2,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
22% of its giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Jersey.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Van Doren Scholarship Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 700, Bedminster, NJ, 07921. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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