Van Sloun Foundation
Marion, MA · EIN 04-6691809. Reported 88 grants totalling $1,211,000 to 73 organizations across tax years 2024. 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 Sloun Foundation 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 $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $17,500; the smallest was $250 and the largest $175,000. 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. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $178,800 | 8 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trustees University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research | Seattle, WA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alice Lloyd College | Pippa Passes, KY | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southcoast Community Foundation | New Bedford, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Landscape Arboretum | Chaska, MN | $43,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faxon Animal Care & Adoption Center | Fall River, MA | $40,000 | 4 | 1 | 2024 |
| Navity Prepatory School | Wilmington, DE | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our Sisters' School | New Bedford, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| America's Vetdogs | Smithtown, NY | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Animal Rescue League of Fall River | Fall River, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Berea College | Berea, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blithewold Inc | Bristol, RI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Easterseals Southwest Florida | Sarasota, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mass Audubon | Lincoln, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Bedford Star Kids | New Bedford, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Family Pantry- Damien's Place | Wareham, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Perkins School for the Blind | Watertown, MA | $19,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Audubon Minnesota | Roseville, MN | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the University | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Commonwealth of Massachuesetts C/O Division of Marine Fisheries | New Bedford, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ducks Unlimted Inc | Memphis, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fall River Historical Society | Fall River, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Marine Life Center | Buzzards Bay, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brigham & Women's Hospital | Boston, MA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Allen's Neck Friends Meeting | Dartmouth, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Indian Movement | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Sunshine | Casco, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clinic for the Rehabilitation | St Paul, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connecticut College | New London, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cummings School of Veterinary | North Grafton, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dogs Inc | Palmetto, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fairhaven Animal Shelter | Fairhaven, MA | $10,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends Academy | North Dartmouth, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Frontier Nursing University | Versailles, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Great River Greening | St Paul, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marie Selby Botanical Gardens | Sarasota, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Meeting Street | Providence, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Eagle Center | Wabasha, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network | Manhattan Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The San Miguel School | Providence, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Service of Rhode Island | Providence, RI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lloyd Center for the Enviornment | South Dartmouth, MA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Westport River Watershed Alliance | Westport, MA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tabor Academy | Marion, MA | $6,500 | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coggeshall Farm Museum | Bristol, RI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Evkids | Boston, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fairhaven Police K9 Account | Fairhaven, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feed My Starving Children | Coon Rapids, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ica Food Shelf | Minnetonka, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Montana State Univ Alumni Foun | Bozeman, MT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New England Aquarium | Boston, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Open Arms of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shelterbox USA | Santa Barbara, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Coast Harvest Festival | Westport, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Migizi | Minneapolis, MN | $4,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Can Do Canines | New Hope, MN | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bowdoin College | Brunswick, ME | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baby Rhino Rescue | Topanga, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Minnesota State Horticutlural | Roseville, MN | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Paul Smith's College | Paul Smiths, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dana Hall School | Wellesley, MA | $1,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bentley University | Waltham, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Care Ring | Charlotte, NC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| NAMI New Hampshire | Concord, NH | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Parks of Lake Superior | St Paul, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina | Morrisville, NC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Kentucky | Lexington, KY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | Amherst, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Minnesota Twin Cities | Minneapolis, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Vermont | Burlington, VT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Nurse Home Care | Fairhaven, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 50 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 29% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- 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 Sloun Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 576, Marion, MA, 02738. 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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