About Hispanic Scholarship Fund
HSF empowers students and parents with the knowledge and resources to successfully complete a higher education, while providing support services and scholarships to as many exceptional students, HSF Scholars, and Alumni as possible.
Focus Areas
Higher educationScholarshipsCollege preparationCareer servicesLeadership developmentSTEM and finance conference programming
Who They Fund
studentsindividual student recipients
Funding Style
direct financial assistanceindividual scholarshipseducation-specific funding
About Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Hispanic Scholarship Fund centers its grantmaking on scholarships for students at a wide set of colleges and universities. The largest recent award in the data is $902,564 to Howard University in 2025 for scholarships for students, and the foundation also made seven-figure-scale scholarship commitments across institutions such as The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford University, The University of Texas at Austin, President and Fellows of Harvard College, and University of Southern California. The pattern points to a funder that uses institutional grants to move scholarship dollars directly to students rather than through project-based awards. Across the recent grants list, the same purpose text appears repeatedly: “to provide scholarships for students.” That consistency fits the organization’s stated mission of helping students and parents complete higher education and supporting HSF Scholars and alumni. The recipient list includes public and private universities, research institutions, and historically Black colleges, showing that the foundation works through many types of postsecondary partners. Leadership is listed under Fidel A. Vargas, and the foundation’s annual grantmaking is substantial at $45,171,145.
What Hispanic Scholarship Fund Funds
Scholarship support is the clearest theme. In 2025, Hispanic Scholarship Fund gave $774,943 to The University of Texas at Austin for scholarships for students and $720,573 to President and Fellows of Harvard College for the same purpose. Those grants show that the foundation routes student aid through partner institutions rather than making individual awards in the recent-grants record. College access and affordability also run through the grant list. The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford University received $826,307 in 2024 and $693,565 in 2025, both for scholarships for students. New York University received $602,881 in 2025, again for scholarships. The foundation’s support reaches a broad set of campuses, including University of Southern California, University of California Irvine, and Regents of the University of California, Berkeley. The repeated scholarship purpose suggests a focus on postsecondary tuition support rather than restricted program projects.
How Hispanic Scholarship Fund Gives
Typical grants fall in the middle five figures: the p25 size is $13,424, the median is $28,418, and the p75 is $67,569. The recent-grants list also shows much larger institutional awards, but the center of the distribution is modest relative to those outliers. The foundation appears to be a regular grantmaker rather than a DAF or private operating foundation, and it does not make grants to individuals directly. Recipients recur across years: Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, Howard, USC, New York University, Spelman College, and others appear more than once in the recent record. The active HSF Scholar Program is open to unsolicited applications and offers scholarship awards depending on available funds and participation.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$29.1M
Total Assets
$198M
Total Revenue
$128.8M
Total Expenses
$76.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $13K and $68K, with a median of $28K.
25th Percentile
$13K
Median
$28K
75th Percentile
$68K
Geographic Reach
National51 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
FIDEL A VARGAS
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