The Tome Foundation

• The Tome Foundation funds STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) scholarships at accredited US colleges and universities, so a charity whose work reaches students through those institutions is the closest fit.
• The foundation does not accept unsolicited requests and makes contributions only to preselected organisations, so a small charity should not send a cold request and should look for a route in through an existing relationship.
• Across the filings, 100% of grant dollars to organisations in the most recent filing went to organisations it had also funded in an earlier one, so it works mainly through repeat relationships rather than open competition.
• Typical grants fall between about $125,000 and $285,000, with a median of about $150,000, so any request should be pitched near that scale, although the largest grant was about $625,000.
• The filing reports a geographic priority of the United States, as other published sources also state it.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• University of Wyoming · To further the organization's mission
  $625,2302024 tax year
• University of Denver · To further the organization's mission
  $262,7742024 tax year
• Berry College · To further the organization's mission
  $155,0972024 tax year
• Morehouse School of Medicine · To further the organization's mission
  $150,2712024 tax year
• American College of Building Arts · To further the organization's mission
  $138,1852024 tax year
• North Carolina A&T State University · To further the organization's mission
  $136,2152024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.