The Ann & Lars Lewander Scholarship Foundation primarily provides fairly large, individual educational scholarships to students (mostly in the Sarasota area). Grants are awarded directly to named students, often as repeat payments, indicating multi-year or renewal support for college or postsecondary study. The foundation focuses narrowly on student aid rather than institutions or programs.
Concentrated, student-level giving: 15 grants totaling $150,000 with award sizes typically $10,000–$20,000. Several recipients receive repeat grants, suggesting a preference for multi-year support to the same individuals rather than wide distribution across many organizations.
Ann & Lars Lewander Scholarship Foundation Inc concentrates on direct educational scholarships to individual students, with awards that regularly reach $10,000 and are often repeated across years for the same recipient. The pattern points to a scholarship fund built around tuition support and ongoing student aid rather than institutional grants or broad program funding. In the recent grants list, that support appears in multi-year awards to students such as Kayling Lumley and Crystal Paver, each receiving scholarship payments in more than one year. The foundation also makes many awards to students in Sarasota and nearby Florida communities, which aligns with its local scope of giving. Its recent grant activity shows a consistent emphasis on postsecondary access and affordability, especially for college-bound students. Several recipients appear in consecutive years, suggesting that the foundation uses scholarship renewals or staged disbursements to support academic pursuit over time. The grant record is straightforward and narrow: individual scholarship payments, named student recipients, and a focus on education aid. That makes the foundation identifiable as a hands-on scholarship fund for learners rather than a diversified grantmaker.
The foundation’s clearest focus is undergraduate scholarship support. It gave $10,000 to Kayling Lumley in 2025 for educational scholarship and $10,000 to Tessa Etchison in 2024 for educational scholarship, showing that individual awards are a central part of its work. Similar scholarship payments also went to students in Sarasota, Bradenton, Clearwater, and North Miami Beach. A second pattern is renewal support for the same students across years. Crystal Paver received $10,000 in 2023 and again in 2025, while Tiffany Paver received $10,000 in 2023 and $10,000 in 2024. That repeat giving suggests the foundation supports students through more than one academic cycle. The awards also reach students beyond Sarasota itself, including Irini Psomas in Clearwater and Lauren Keeling in North Miami Beach, indicating that the scholarship pool serves a broader Florida student group within its local scope.
Typical awards cluster tightly around $10,000: the p25 is $7,500, the median is $10,000, and the p75 is also $10,000. That distribution indicates a scholarship program built around a standard award level, with some lower awards alongside it. The recent record also shows recurring support to the same recipients across multiple years, including Crystal Paver, Tiffany Paver, and Kayling Lumley. The foundation funds individuals rather than organizations, and its scholarship awards are earmarked for education.
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$507K
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Most grants fall between $8K and $10K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$8K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$10K
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Notable grantees: Irini Psomas, Tiffany Paver, Crystal Paver, Tessa Etchison, Alyssa Foley
Grantmaking is overwhelmingly Florida-based, with 92% of grants going to recipients in the foundation’s HQ state and Florida also ranking first by grant count. Recent recipients are concentrated in Sarasota, Bradenton, and Clearwater, with additional awards to North Miami Beach and Allen, Texas. The recipient-country distribution is entirely U.S.-based, with 25 grants in the United States and none elsewhere in the recent list.
It funds individual educational scholarships. The recent grants list is composed of scholarship awards to named students, with purposes such as “EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP” and repeated support to the same recipients across years.
The foundation’s grant-size profile is centered on $10,000 awards. The p25 is $7,500, the median is $10,000, and the p75 is $10,000, showing a tight distribution around that level.
Yes. Several students appear in multiple years, including Crystal Paver in 2023 and 2025, Tiffany Paver in 2023 and 2024, and Kayling Lumley in 2023 and 2025. That indicates recurring support rather than only one-time awards.
Most recipients are in Florida, and the recent grants are concentrated in Sarasota, Bradenton, Clearwater, and North Miami Beach. Florida accounts for 92% of grants, and the recipient-country distribution is entirely U.S.-based.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KAYLIN LUMLEY | SARASOTA, FL | $10,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| ALYSSA FOLEY | BRADENTON, FL | $10,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| ANGELINA MARIE BUECHEL | SARASOTA, FL | $10,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARHIP |
| CRYSTAL PAVER | BRADENTON, FL | $10,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| SAMARYIA BOSTIC | BRADENTON, FL | $7,500 | 2025 | EDUATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| JOLIE ROGERS | CHARLOTTE, NC | $7,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| MARCUS PINCKNEY | SARASOTA, FL | $7,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| JULIA BUECHEL | SARASOTA, FL | $5,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| BLAKE LUNLEY | SARASOTA, FL | $5,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| DEVIN DICARLO | BRADENTON, FL | $4,050 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| TIFFANY PAVER | BRADENTON, FL | $10,000 | 2024 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| TESSA ETCHISON | SARASOTA, FL | $10,000 | 2024 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| IRINI PSOMAS | CLEARWATER, FL | $10,000 | 2024 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| ALYSSA FOLEY | ALLEN, TX | $9,000 | 2024 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| KAYLING LUMLEY | SARASOTA, FL | $8,500 | 2024 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| CRYSTAL PAVER | BRADENTON, FL | $8,000 | 2024 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| TESSA ETCHISON | SARASOTA, FL | $10,000 | 2023 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| LAUREN KEELING | NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FL | $10,000 | 2023 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| KAYLING LUMLEY | SARASOTA, FL | $10,000 | 2023 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| MARIBEL PREZAS | SARASOTA, FL | $10,000 | 2023 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| TIFFANY PAVER | BRADENTON, FL | $10,000 | 2023 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| CRYSTAL PAVER | BRADENTON, FL | $10,000 | 2023 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| KALEB SIERRA | SARASOTA, FL | $10,000 | 2023 | EDUCTIONAL SCHOLARSHOP |
| IRINI PSOMAS | CLEARWATER, FL | $10,000 | 2023 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| BRODHI TAMER | BRADENTON, FL | $5,000 | 2023 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
KAYLIN LUMLEY
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
ALYSSA FOLEY
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
ANGELINA MARIE BUECHEL
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARHIP
CRYSTAL PAVER
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
SAMARYIA BOSTIC
$7,500EDUATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
JOLIE ROGERS
$7,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
MARCUS PINCKNEY
EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
JULIA BUECHEL
$5,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
BLAKE LUNLEY
$5,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
DEVIN DICARLO
$4,050EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
TIFFANY PAVER
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
TESSA ETCHISON
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
IRINI PSOMAS
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
ALYSSA FOLEY
$9,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
KAYLING LUMLEY
$8,500EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
CRYSTAL PAVER
$8,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
TESSA ETCHISON
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
LAUREN KEELING
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
KAYLING LUMLEY
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
MARIBEL PREZAS
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
TIFFANY PAVER
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
CRYSTAL PAVER
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
KALEB SIERRA
$10,000EDUCTIONAL SCHOLARSHOP
IRINI PSOMAS
$10,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
BRODHI TAMER
$5,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP