Scholarship Funds

All Vassar scholarships are awarded solely on the basis of financial need, as determined by the college. The endowed funds listed below help support the Vassar scholarship program. Students do not apply for specific endowed funds; rather, they apply for financial aid.

For students seeking admission to Vassar College, the financial aid information is available in the admissions packet.

  • Maxine Goldmark Aaron ’24 Fund
  • Stella Hamburger Aaron 1899 Fund
  • Gorham D. and Rebecca I. Abbot Fund
  • Jennie Ackerly Fund
  • Florence White Adlem Fund
  • Edna C. Albro Fund
  • George I. Alden Trust Fund
  • Julia Bowles Alexander Fund
  • Margaret Middleditch Allardyce Fund
  • Mildred Allen Fund
  • Adelaide Ames Fund
  • Arlene Joy Amron Memorial Fund
  • Mary Louise Anderson Fund
  • E. Cowles and Miriam Jay Wurts Andrus Fund
  • Louise C. Armstrong Fund
  • Elizabeth V. Atwater Fund
  • Norma K. and Lisa Aufzien Endowed Scholarship Fund
  • Chellis A. Austin Fund
  • Edwin C. Austin Fund
  • Sarah Taylor Avrit Fund
  • Sara L. Azrael Fund
  • Lydia Richardson Babbott Fund
  • Elsie L. Baker Fund
  • Katharine Jones Baker Scholarship
  • Mary Donahue Baker Fund
  • Columbus and Edith E. Langenberg Baldo Music Fund
  • Leslie Greenough Barker Fund
  • Agnes L. Barnum Fund
  • Edward M. Barringer Fund
  • Charles and Rosanna Batchelor Fund
  • Baxter Scholarship Fund
  • Louisa Van Kleeck Beach Fund
  • Adeline Beadle Fund
  • Aymer J. and E. Louise Beecher Fund
  • Gabrielle Snyder Beck Endowment Fund
  • Julia E. Bell Fund
  • Margaret Jones Benton Fund
  • Ada Kerr Benz Fund
  • The Arnold Bernhard Foundation Fund
  • Cecile and Gustav Bernd Sr. Fund
  • Alison Bernstein Scholarship
  • Frank Stillman Bidwell Fund
  • Mary Brown Bidwell Fund
  • William Bingham, II Fund
  • Sarah Gibson Blanding Fund
  • Edith S. Wetmore Blessing Fund
  • Avis H. and Lucy H. Blewett Fund
  • Margaret S. Block Fund
  • Rebecca Prentiss Blunt Fund
  • Olive Thompson Bond Fund
  • Clara Lena Bostwick and Marion Bostwick Mattice Smith Fund
  • Annie Nettleton Bourne Fund
  • Constance B. Bowditch Fund
  • Mabel Maxwell Brace Fund
  • Priscilla Braislin Fund
  • Nannie Jenckes Brayton Fund
  • Louise D. Breckinridge Fund
  • Jane Breckir Memorial Fund
  • Brigham Fund
  • Blanche Campbell Brown Fund
  • Laura A. Brown Fund
  • Mabel Webster Brown Fund
  • Virginia Post Brown Fund
  • Brownell-Collier Fund
  • Florence Wadhams Buchanan Fund
  • Catharine Morgan Buckingham Fund
  • John Buckmaster Fund
  • Louise Burchard Fund
  • Bertha Shapley Burke Fund
  • Shirley Oakes Butler Fund
  • Marian Voorhees ’04 and Edgar J. Buttenheim Fund
  • Hilda J. Butterfield Fund
  • Annie Glyde Wells Caldwell Fund
  • Northern California Endowment Fund
  • Nellie Heth Canfield Fund
  • Eliza Capen Fund
  • Henrietta Capen Fund
  • Jane Clark Carey Fund
  • Dorothy Carl Class of 1930 Scholarship
  • Central New York Scholarship Fund
  • Cornelia B. Challice Fund
  • Emily M. Chapman Fund
  • Chemical Bank Fund
  • Augusta Choate Fund
  • Althea Ward Clark Fund in the Environmental Sciences
  • Carnzu A. Clark Family Fund
  • Class of 1896 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1900 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1922 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1923 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1931 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1934 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1936 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1942 Fund for the Environmental Sciences
  • Class of 1944 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1945 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1951 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1952 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1954 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1955 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1956 Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1961 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1972 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1974 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1982 Scholarship Fund
  • Class of 1985 (Alden) Fund
  • Sally Dayton Clement Scholarship Fund
  • Cleveland Vassar Club Endowment Fund
  • Annette Perry Coakley Fund
  • P. Charles Cole Fund
  • College Bowl Scholarship Fund
  • Isabella Steenburg Collins Fund
  • Colorado Vassar Club Endowment Fund
  • Compton Family Scholarship Fund
  • Compton Foundation Scholarship Fund
  • Dorothy Danforth Compton Fund
  • Ruth E. Conklin Fund
  • Connecticut Scholarship Fund
  • Alison R. Coolidge Fund
  • Wildey B. and Ella H. Cooper Fund
  • Dr. Susan Covey Memorial Scholarship
  • Sarah Frances Hutchinson Cowles &
  • Patricia Stewart Phelps Fund
  • Susan Copland Crim Fund
  • Dr. Emma V.P. Bicknell Culbertson Fund
  • Gladys H. Cunningham Fund
  • Florence M. Cushing Fund
  • Dennis and Marsha Finn Dammerman Scholarship
  • Charles L. Dates Fund
  • Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Scholarship Fund
  • Thomas M. and Mary E. Bennett Davis Fund
  • Margarita Victoria Delacorte ’53
  • Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Barbara Rowe de Marneffe and Pamela Rowe Peabody Fund
  • George Sherman Dickinson Fund
  • Bertha Clark Dillon Fund
  • May Cossitt Dodge Fund
  • Mario Domandi Fund
  • Susan Miller Dorsey Fund
  • Caroline B. Dow and Lilla T. Elder Fund
  • Durant Drake Fund
  • Drotleff Scholarship Fund
  • Kathryn McGrath Dubbs Fund
  • Gwendoline Durbridge Fund
  • Maude Elizabeth Batcheller Durkee Fund
  • Catherine Pelton Durrell ’25 Endowed Scholarship Fund
  • Jane Dustan Scholarship
  • Ruth P. East Fund
  • George and Mary Economou Scholarship
  • Charles M. Eckert Fund
  • Edna H. Edgerton Fund
  • Achsah M. Ely Fund
  • Linda Beiles Englander ’62 Fund
  • Elizabeth Y. Evans Fund
  • Martha Jarnagin Evans Fund
  • Margaret Ferguson Fund
  • Francis D. Fergusson Scholarship
  • Fergusson Presidential Scholars
  • Edith Ferry Memorial Fund
  • Mary Davis Firestone Memorial Fund
  • Julia Amster Fishelson Fund
  • Lucy Aldrich Fitch Fund
  • Abbie H. Fox Fund
  • Anne Frank Memorial Fund
  • Ruth Scharps Fuld Fund
  • Flora Todd Fuller Fund
  • S. Margaret Gallagher Fund
  • Roberta Galloway Gardner Fund
  • Nellie J. Ryder Gates Fund
  • Caroline M. Gerrish Fund
  • Margaret McKee Gerrity Fund
  • Cora Williams Getz Fund
  • George R. and Helen M. Gibbons Fund
  • Kate Viola Gibson Fund
  • Gilan Fund
  • Lucille Renneckar Glass Fund
  • Louise Miller Glover Fund
  • Frances Goldin Scholarship Fund
  • Joan Gordon Scholarship Fund
  • George Coleman Gow Fund
  • The Michael Paul Grace Endowed Scholarship
  • Graham Alumnae Fund
  • Harriette Westfall Greene Fund
  • Robina Knox Gregg Fund
  • Emma Catherine Gregory Fund
  • Kate Stanton Griffis Fund
  • The Lea Trinka Grossi ’72 Scholarship
  • Gertrude H. Grosvenor Fund
  • Helen Morris Hadley Fund
  • Hager Scholarship Fund
  • George S. & Esther E. Halstead Fund
  • Ives Dulles Hannay ’42 Endowed Scholarship Fund
  • Marian Shaler Hanisch Fund
  • H. Stuart Harrison Fund
  • Evelina Hartz Fund
  • Margaret D. Hayden 1939 Scholarship Fund
  • Alice Hayes Fund
  • Elizabeth Debevoise Healy & Harold Harris Healy, Jr. Fund
  • Edward W. Hearon Memorial Fund
  • William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund
  • Laura McNeely Hedrick Fund
  • Heffernan Fund
  • Hazel Bowling Heflin Fund
  • John P. Herrick Fund
  • Hersey Association Scholarship Fund
  • Heloise E. Hersey Fund
  • Bailey Wright Hickenlooper Fund
  • Meredith Miller Hilson Fund
  • Malcolm and Anna Robb Hirsh ’37 Endowed Scholarship
  • Adelaide F. and Alexander P. Hixon Endowment for Exploring Transfer
  • Dorothy Deyo Munro and Cornelia
  • Deyo Hochstrasser Scholarship Fund
  • Robert and Martha Hoffman Fund
  • Elizabeth Hogsett Fund
  • Blanche Ferry Hooker Fund
  • Julie Lien-Ying How Memorial Scholarship
  • Nancy Phillips Howland Scholarship
  • Mable Hastings Humpstone Fund
  • Calvin Huntington Fund
  • Dorothy D. Hurd Fund
  • Deborah Dow and Glenn Hutchins Scholarship
  • Lillia Babbitt Hyde Fund
  • Helen K. Ikeler Fund
  • Indiana Vassar Club Endowment Fund
  • Martha Rivers Ingram ’57 Fund
  • Jane Lilley Ireson Fund
  • Martha Turley Jack Scholarship
  • Helen Hunt Jackson Fund
  • Harriet Morse Jenckes Fund
  • Bertha Tisdale Jenks Fund
  • Elizabeth Jenks Fund
  • Dorothy Jennings Class of 1923 Scholarship Endowment Fund
  • Beth Johnson Memorial Fund
  • Colton Johnson Scholarship
  • Jane T. Johnson Fund
  • Julia E. Johnson Fund
  • Helen Lyon Jones Fund
  • Leila D. Jones Fund
  • Louise M. Karcher Fund
  • Carol Miller Kautz ’55 and James Kautz Trustee Scholarship at Vassar College
  • Katharine Margaret Kay Fund
  • Peggy Bullens Keally Fund
  • Clara E.B. Kellner Scholars Fund
  • Charlotte K. Kempner and Phyllis A. Kempner Scholarship Fund
  • Dorothy W. King Fund
  • Margaret Allen Knapp Scholarship Fund
  • Adelaide Knight Fund
  • Koopman Fund
  • Bertha M. Kridel Fund
  • Delphia Hill Lamberson Fund
  • Lambert-Hall Fund for Studio Art
  • Ellen Vorzimer Langner Fund
  • Katharine P. Larrabee Fund
  • Loula D. Lasker 1909 and Frances Lasker Brody 1937 Scholarship
  • Otis Lee Fund
  • Margaret Anita Leet Fund
  • Margaret Bashford Legardeur Fund
  • Dorothy I. Levens Fund
  • Susan J. Life Fund
  • Elisabeth Locke Fund in Music
  • Helen D. Lockwood Fund
  • Julia B. Lockwood Fund
  • Frances Lehman Loeb ’28 Scholarship Fund
  • Dorothy Hirsch Loebl ’48 Scholarship Fund
  • Louisiana Vassar Club Endowment Fund
  • Polly Richardson Lukens Memorial Fund
  • Hannah Willard Lyman Fund
  • Lyndon Hall Alumnae Association Scholarship Fund
  • Catherine Hubbard MacCracken Fund
  • Majorie Dodd MacCracken Fund
  • Martha H. MacLeish Fund
  • Susan Zadek Mandel and Beth K. Zadek Fund
  • Mabel Farnham Mangano Fund
  • J.P. and L.T. Marangu Family Scholarship
  • Mary Anna Fox Martel 1890 Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Mary Sue Cantrell Massad Fund
  • Louise Roblee McCarthy Memorial Fund
  • Emma C. McCauley Fund
  • Richard H. McDonald Fund
  • James S. McDonnell Fund
  • Janet C. McGean Fund
  • A. Madrigale M. McKeever Fund
  • Maude McKinnon Fund
  • Elizabeth L. Geiger McMahon Fund
  • William C. McVail Scholarship Fund
  • M. Frances Jewell McVey Fund
  • J. Warren Merrill Fund
  • Caroline Henshaw Metcalf Fund
  • Michigan Vassar Club Endowment Fund
  • Minnesota-Dakota Vassar Club Endowment Fund
  • William Mitchell Fund
  • Mohawk Valley Vassar Club Endowment Fund
  • Mary E. Monroe Fund
  • Mary H. Morgan Fund
  • Eugenia Tuttle Morris Fund
  • James B. and Emma M. Morrison Fund
  • Maude Morrison Fund
  • Christine Morgan Morton Fund
  • Samuel Munson Fund
  • Janet Murray 1931 Endowed Scholarship Fund
  • Sylvia and Harry Nelson Fund
  • Gretchen Hawkins Nelson and Sylvia 
  • Allen Nelson Fund
  • Mary Nelson Fund
  • Virginia Shafroth Newton 1941 Fund
  • New York Aid Fund
  • Elizabeth Singer Nicholson Memorial Fund
  • Nickerson-Elwell Scholarship Fund
  • Philip Nochlin Memorial Fund
  • North Carolina Vassar Club Endowment Fund
  • Jacqueline Nolte ’48 Scholarship
  • Jean Anderson O’Neil Fund
  • Florence White Olivet Fund
  • Mary Olmstead Fund
  • Marian Woodward Ottley Fund
  • Ouyang Family Scholarship
  • Lydia Babbott Paddon and Richard Paddon Fund
  • Mary Cornelia Palmer Fund
  • Mabel Pearse Fund
  • Honoro G. Pelton Fund
  • Michael W. and Catharine Walker
  • Percopo ’46 Fund
  • Emma M. Perkins Fund
  • Florence Clinton Perkins Fund
  • Viva S. Perkins Fund
  • Matilda C. Perry Fund
  • Dorothy Persh Scholarship
  • Philadelphia Vassar Club Endowment Fund
  • Frances W. Pick Fund
  • Mary Ellen and Bruce Eben Pindyck Fund
  • Poughkeepsie Community Fund
  • Sarah Goddard Power Memorial Fund
  • Andrew Price III Memorial Scholarship
  • Queen Marie Scholarship Fund
  • Elizabeth McCandless Rainey Fund
  • Sarah Tod Fitz Randolph Fund
  • Frances Helen Rawson Fund
  • John H. Raymond Fund
  • Ellen Roth Reisman Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Emma A. Rice Fund
  • Julia A. Richards Fund
  • Delia Rosanna Robbins Fund
  • Paul C. Roberts Fund
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt Fund
  • Sandra Priest Rose Fund
  • Barbara Hirsch Rosston Scholarship Endowment
  • The Lucile Cross Russell Fund
  • Alexander and Mary Ellen Saunders Fund
  • Harriet Sawyer Fund
  • Scholarhsip Endowment in Support of Need Blind Admissions
  • Ann Weinfeld Schulman Memorial Scholarship
  • Edna Bryner Schwab Fund
  • Alice McAfee Scott Fund
  • Miriam Tannhauser McNair Scott Art History Scholarship Fund
  • Esther Sears Fund
  • Ruth Sedgwick Fund
  • Henrietta Buckler Seiberling Music Fund
  • Senior Class Gift—Scholarship Fund
  • Janet Warren Shaw Fund
  • Mary E. Shepard Fund
  • Susan Stein Shiva Fund
  • Janet Gerdes Short ’40 Endowed Scholarship Fund
  • Lydia M. Short Fund
  • Dorothy Linder Silberberg Fund
  • Linda Sipress Scholarship
  • James T. and Gertrude M. Skelly Fund
  • Anna Margaret and Mary Sloan Fund
  • Jane Prouty Smith Fund
  • Reba Morehouse Smith Fund
  • Blanche Brumback Spitzer Fund
  • Kittie M. Spring Fund
  • Carol L. Stahl Fund
  • Catharine P. Stanton Fund
  • Louise J. Starkweather Fund
  • Mary Isabella Starr Fund
  • Florence Finley Stay Scholarship
  • Lucy W. Stedman Fund
  • Mary Betty Stevens, M.D. Fund
  • Clara Sax Strasburger Fund
  • Mary and Harry Streep Scholarship
  • Ernest and Elsie Sturm Fund
  • Summer Institute of Euthenics Scholarship Fund
  • Solon E. Summerfield Fund
  • Diana Ward Sumner Fund
  • Surdna Foundation Scholarship Fund
  • Helen B. Sweeney Fund
  • Marian Stanley Sweet Fund
  • Texas Scholarship Fund
  • Florence White Thomas Fund
  • Mary Rogers Thomas Memorial Fund
  • Sarah and Elizabeth Thomas Fund
  • Adalyn Thompson Fund
  • John Thompson and Benson Van Vliet Fund
  • C. Mildred Thompson Fund
  • James and Theresa Thornbury Fund
  • Ada Thurston Fund
  • Charlotte F.K. Townsend Fund
  • Emily Allison Townsend Fund
  • Margaret Pope Trask Endowment Fund
  • Jane B. Tripp Fund
  • Thomas Tsao ’86 Memorial Fund
  • Cordelia F. Turrell Fund
  • Ruth Updegraff Scholarship Fund
  • Janet Graham Van Alstyne 1922 Scholarship Fund
  • Esther Ruth Van Demark Fund
  • Dr. Helen VanAlstine Scholarship Fund
  • Yannis Pavlos Vardinoyannis Fund
  • Matthew Vassar Auxiliary Fund
  • Vassar Club of New York City Scholarship Fund
  • Vassar Club of St. Louis Fund
  • Matthew Vassar Jr. Fund
  • Valerie Vondermuhll Fund
  • Harriett F. Hubbell Vossler Fund
  • Annetta O’Brien Walker Fund
  • Cornelia Walker Fund
  • Washington State Vassar Club Endowment Fund
  • Dr. Caroline F. Ware Fund
  • Anne Bonner Warren 1950 Memorial Scholarship
  • Waterman-Neu Fund
  • Watkins-Elting Scholarship Fund
  • Elizabeth Wylie Webster Fund
  • Mary C. Welborn Fund
  • Emma Galpin Welch Fund
  • Agnes B. and Elizabeth E. Wellington Fund
  • Jill Troy Werner ’71 Endowed Scholarship
  • Clara Pray West Fund
  • Westchester Vassar Club Endowment Fund
  • Dorothy Marioneaux Whatley Fund
  • Dorothy Whitman Fund
  • Martha McChesney Wilkinson & Ruth Chandler Moore Class of 1918 Fund
  • The Lois P. Williams ’16 Scholarship Endowment
  • Edward and Elizabeth Williamson Fund
  • Katharine Mathiot Williston Fund
  • Florence Ogden Wilson Fund
  • Woodrow Wilson Fund
  • Winbrook Scholarship Fund
  • Lucy Madeira Wing Fund
  • Annie Carpenter Winter Fund
  • David, Helen and Marian Woodward Fund and Marian Woodward Ottley Fund
  • Dr. Gladys Winter Yegen Fund
  • Mary Stout Young Fund
  • Jacob Ziskind Fund
  • Professor Anita Zorzoli Scholarship Endowment
  • 75th Anniversary Scholarship Fund

Additional scholarship funds were made available by the following Vassar Clubs during the 2007/08 academic year from gifts and endowments:

  • Bryn Mawr/Vassar Bookstore, Inc.
  • Chicago
  • Cleveland
  • Colorado/Wyoming
  • Jersey Hills
  • Minnesota and Dakotas
  • Naples, Florida
  • New Haven
  • Palm Beach/Martin Counties
  • Philadelphia
  • Poughkeepsie Area
  • Rhode Island
  • Rochester
  • Saint Louis
  • Santa Barbara and the Tri-Counties
  • Tucson
  • Vermont and New Hampshire
  • Westchester
  • Wisconsin