Roy W Piper Charitable Trust

How to apply, from its 2025 IRS return

How to ask

Formal application provided by trustees. Application should include description of intent to matriculate at a college or university, current school and grade point average though 1st semester of senior year. Finalists will be required to provide signed income tax returns for 2 fiscal years immediately preceding the date of application from each applicant, applicant's parent/guardian.

Deadlines

March 15 of each year.

Limits on who can apply

Awards will only be made to applicants who are members of a family with a combined household income of less than 150,000 with no children in college, 105,000 with one child in college, and 115,000 with 2 children in college and who have a cumulative "C" average through first term of the student's senior year in high school. Students residing in Wyoming, Luzerne and Lackawanna counties will have preference.

Grants paid in 2025

$599,625, to organizations

This is what the foundation told the IRS on Form 990-PF. It isn’t a confirmed open grant round, and details may have changed, so contact the foundation before applying. Its mailing address is on the full return: see it on ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer.