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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 20-6830581

Vasilius Family Foundation

A private foundation in Sioux Falls, SD. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 12 grants and $421,000 paid in grants.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2025

    $421,000

    Grants listed
    12
    Assets, end of year
    $5,244,481
  • Tax year 2024

    $340,000

    Grants listed
    10
    Assets, end of year
    $5,279,132
  • Tax year 2023

    $371,000

    Grants listed
    14
    Assets, end of year
    $5,129,622
  • Tax year 2022

    $617,500

    Grants listed
    16
    Assets, end of year
    $5,372,846
  • Tax year 2021

    $273,500

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $5,958,665
  • Tax year 2020

    $785,500

    Grants listed
    20
    Assets, end of year
    $5,735,799
  • Tax year 2019

    $320,650

    Grants listed
    15
    Assets, end of year
    $7,765,914
  • Tax year 2018

    $30,727

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $6,846,019

Grants paid in 2025

12 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Arrupe Jesuit High SchoolDenver, CO

    General fund

    $100,000
  2. CSCCC City AuditoriumColumbus, OH

    General fund

    $100,000
  3. Americana Music FoundationNashville, TN

    General fund

    $50,000
  4. Parker SchoolKamuela, HI

    General fund

    $50,000
  5. Colorado School of Mines FoundationGolden, CO

    General fund

    $40,000
  6. Friends of Canandaigua LakePittsford, NY

    General fund

    $20,000
  7. University of BuffaloBuffalo, NY

    General fund

    $20,000
  8. Buffalo Academy of the Sacred HeartBuffalo, NY

    General fund

    $10,000
  9. Channel MomBailey, CO

    General fund

    $10,000
  10. Kukio Hoomana FundKailua Kona, HI

    General fund

    $10,000
  11. North Kohala Resource CenterHawi, HI

    General fund

    $10,000
  12. Canandaigua Lake Watershed AssocCanandaigua, NY

    General fund

    $1,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Education2 grants $90,00053% of the total
  2. Arts and culture1 grant $50,00029% of the total
  3. Philanthropy and grantmaking2 grants $30,00018% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Colorado3 grants $150,000
  2. Ohio1 grant $100,000
  3. Hawaii3 grants $70,000
  4. New York4 grants $51,000
  5. Tennessee1 grant $50,000

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Alyssa LorenzTRUSTEE Hours 0Pay $0
  • Ron JohnsonTRUSTEE Hours 0Pay $0

The return

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