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Basil L King Scholarship

Ft Pierce, FL · EIN 59-0651084. Reported 105 grants totalling $1,081,907 to 47 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$6,000median grant
$1,081,907granted, 2021-2024
47organizations funded
69%of grantees funded again the next year
$7,135,645assets, latest filing

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. Basil L King Scholarship did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $6,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,500 and $10,950; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $94,900. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
42 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
32 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
25 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Indian River State CollegeFort Pierce, FL$280,018442024
Florida State UniversityTallahassee, FL$73,800442024
Nova Southeastern UniversityFort Lauderdale, FL$61,600442024
University of FloridaGainesville, FL$56,300442024
Keiser UniversityFort Lauderdale, FL$54,100442024
University of Central FloridaOrlando, FL$53,000442024
Florida Atlantic UniversityBoca Raton, FL$48,200442024
Florida A&m UniversityTallahassee, FL$34,800442024
Irsc FoundationFort Pierce, FL$34,557112023
University of South FloridaTampa, FL$32,950442024
Geisinger Commonwealth School of MedicineDanville, PA$26,400442024
South UniversityRoyal Palm Beach, FL$26,400442024
Treasure Coast Hospice FoundationStuart, FL$21,874112021
Palm Beach State CollegeLake Worth, FL$21,150442024
Eastern Kentucky UniversityRichmond, KY$20,400332023
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$20,400332023
Capella UniversityMinneapolis, MN$18,400442024
Chamberlain UniversityAddison, IL$17,000332024
University of West FloridaPensacola, FL$14,800222024
University of North FloridaJacksonville, FL$14,400442024
University of St AugustineSt Augustine, FL$14,400332023
University of Medicine and Health SciencesNew York, NY$13,400222024
Boys and Girls Clubs of SlcFort Pierce, FL$13,378112024
Wayne State Univ School of MedDetroit, MI$13,000222022
Fortis InstitutePort St Lucie, FL$12,900222024
Warner UniversityLake Wales, FL$7,000222022
Stetson UniversityDeland, FL$6,900222024
University of Texas Health ScienceHouston, TX$6,500112021
Barry University School of Podiatric MedicineMiami, FL$6,000112024
Jacksonville UniversityJacksonville, FL$6,000112022
Vakani OrthodonticsFort Pierce, FL$5,500112024
Palm Beach Atlantic UniversityWest Palm Beach, FL$5,000222024
Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$4,500112021
Denver College of NursingDenver, CO$4,400112023
Broward CollegeFort Lauderdale, FL$4,300222023
Walden UniversityMinneapolis, MN$4,000112024
Fl State College at JacksonvilleJacksonville, FL$3,200112022
University of MontevalloMontevallo, AL$3,000112024
Galen College of NursingSt Peterburg, FL$2,900112023
Power OrthodonticsStuart, FL$2,080112023
Advent Health UniversityOrlando, FL$2,000112024
Arizona College of NursingPhoeniz, AZ$2,000112022
At Still UniversityMesa, AZ$2,000112022
Medworld Academy School of NursingWest Palm Beach, FL$2,000112021
South Florida College of NursingDoral, FL$2,000112024
University of Arkansas for Medical SciencesLittle Rock, AR$2,000112022
Treasure Coast Medical InstituteFort Pierce, FL$1,000112021

26 of 47 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 69%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
28 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202125$226,354$6,500
202227$225,638$5,500
202326$306,837$7,400
202427$323,078$6,000

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 85% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$925K
Pennsylvania
$26K
Minnesota
$22K
Kentucky
$20K
Maryland
$20K
New York
$18K
Illinois
$17K
Michigan
$13K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $6,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 Basil L King Scholarship'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: 3600 North Milton Road, Ft Pierce, FL, 34946. 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.

EIN 59-0651084 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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