Van Sloun Foundation
Marion, MA · EIN 04-6691809. Reported 88 grants totalling $1,211,000 to 73 recipients 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. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 50 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.
Where its money goes
29% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. 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 $10,000. 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 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). 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 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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