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Roy W Piper Charitable Trust

Accepts applications Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania · EIN 207487500

Roy W Piper Charitable Trust is a private foundation in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. In tax year 2025 it gave $599,625 in 72 grants; the typical grant was $7,500 and the largest $29,179. It accepts applications; its filing gives the instructions below.

From its IRS Form 990-PF for tax year 2025.

Giving in 2025 was down from $771,719 the year before.

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants paidNumber of grantsAssets
2023$647,01268$16.7 million
2024$771,71972$17.6 million
2025$599,62572$18.5 million

How to apply

ContactThomas Tulaney
PO Box 190, Clarks Summit, PA 18411
Phone or email(570) 840-4646
What to submitFormal 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.
DeadlinesMarch 15 of each year.
RestrictionsAwards 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.

As written in the foundation's IRS filing for tax year 2025. Details may have changed since.

IRS filings on ProPublica

What Roy W Piper Charitable Trust funds

Where it gives

All of its grants went to recipients in Pennsylvania.

StateGrantsAmount
Pennsylvania72$599,625

Grants paid in 2025

The 40 largest of 72 grants
RecipientPurposeAmount
Individual
PA
College scholarship$29,179
Individual
PA
College scholarship$20,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$19,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$19,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$18,537
Individual
PA
College scholarship$16,477
Individual
PA
College scholarship$16,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$15,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$15,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$13,500
Individual
PA
College scholarship$13,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$12,750
Individual
PA
College scholarship$12,750
Individual
PA
College scholarship$12,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$12,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$12,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$12,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$12,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$10,635
Triton Hose Company
Tunkhannock, PA
General grant$10,495
Individual
PA
College scholarship$10,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$10,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$9,782
Individual
PA
College scholarship$9,767
Individual
PA
College scholarship$9,099
Individual
PA
College scholarship$9,053
Individual
PA
College scholarship$9,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$9,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$9,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$8,500
Individual
PA
College scholarship$8,229
Individual
PA
College scholarship$8,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$8,000
Individual
PA
College scholarship$7,767
Individual
PA
College scholarship$7,500
Individual
PA
College scholarship$7,500
Individual
PA
College scholarship$7,500
Individual
PA
College scholarship$7,500
Individual
PA
College scholarship$7,500
Individual
PA
College scholarship$7,000

Officers and trustees

As listed in Part VIII of the 2025 filing.

Questions people ask

Does Roy W Piper Charitable Trust accept grant applications?

Yes. Its latest IRS filing says it accepts applications, with this on deadlines: March 15 of each year..

How much does Roy W Piper Charitable Trust give?

$599,625 in tax year 2025, across 72 grants, with a typical grant of $7,500.

Who runs Roy W Piper Charitable Trust?

Its 2025 filing lists Thomas P Tulaney (Trustee), Robert P Browning (Trustee) and Ronald Kukuchka (Trustee).

What does Roy W Piper Charitable Trust fund?

Based on its grants, mainly education.

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