Whiteside Scholarship Fund Trust
Milwaukee, WI · EIN 41-1288761. Reported 153 grants totalling $943,676 to 74 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. 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. Whiteside Scholarship Fund 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $7,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $44,000. 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 Twin Cities | Minneapolis, MN | $126,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Olaf College | Northfield, MN | $66,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin- Madison | Madison, WI | $48,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Carleton College | Northfield, MN | $45,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lawrence University | Appleton, WI | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $32,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $32,499 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | Saint Peter, MN | $31,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Mn Twin Cities | Minneapolis, MN | $28,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Macalester College | Saint Paul, MN | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Middlebury College | Middlebury, VT | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Duluth Superior Area Community Foundatio | Duluth, MN | $18,677 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Luther College | Decorah, IA | $18,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Purdue University | Goshen, IN | $18,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA | $17,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | Bloomington, IL | $17,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $17,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brigham Young University | Provo, UT | $15,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Minnesota Duluth | Duluth, MN | $15,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Williams College | Williamstown, MA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bowdoin College | Brunswick, ME | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Depaul University | Chicago, IL | $12,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| College of St Scholastica | Duluth, MN | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Loyola University Chicago | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pomona College | Claremont, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Swarthmore College | Swarthmore, PA | $10,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wellesley College | Wellesley, MA | $10,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $8,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Colby College | Waterville, ME | $8,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| College of Saint Scholastica | Duluth, MN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Concordia College Corporation | Moorhead, MN | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Loyola Univeristy | Chicago, IL | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mount Holyoke College | South Hadley, MA | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wisconsin Lutheran College | Milwaukee, WI | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North Dakota State University | Fargo, ND | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of North Dakota | Grand Forks, ND | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Montana State University | Bozeman, MT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pomona College | Claremont, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Academy Hall Rpi | Troy, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tufts University | Medford, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Union College | Lincoln, NE | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Union College | Schenecrady, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Union College | Barbourville, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| William & Mary College | Williamsburg, VA | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Drake University | Des Moines, IA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology | Newark, NJ | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rutgers University | Piscataway, NJ | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| George Washington Universitu | Washington, DC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Geroge Washington University | Washington DC, DC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Knox College | Duluth, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Carolina State University | Duluth, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pacific University Oregon | Duluth, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Smith College | Northampton, MA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Catherine University | Cloquet, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Unc at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, WI | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Duluth, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of South Florida | Dallas, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bemidji State University | Bemidji, MN | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Institute of Technology | Brooklyn, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rutgers the State University of Nj | North Brunswick, NJ | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| School of Art Inst-Chicago | Chicago, IL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago | San Francisco, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
39 of 74 (53%) 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 61%, 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 kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 76 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 41 | $278,400 | $4,500 |
| 2022 | 40 | $256,610 | $4,750 |
| 2023 | 40 | $212,833 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 32 | $195,833 | $5,000 |
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. 42% of this one's giving went to organizations in Minnesota. 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 $5,000. 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 Minnesota.
- 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 Whiteside Scholarship Fund Trust'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 0634, Milwaukee, WI, 53201. 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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