The Ateneo Scholarship Foundation, Inc. was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 28, 2974 by a group of Ateneo alumni and friends to provide scholarship grants to deserving students from the low-middle class and poor families. It is an operating organization located at Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Road, Loyola Heights, Quezon City. It has eight (8) seconded staff and fifteen (15) members of the Board of Trustees.
Its purposes (V-M-G), among others, are “promote research, studies, and instruction in the natural and social sciences and in the humanities. It also aims to increase scholarship funding and to further the democratization of access to educational opportunities.” The Foundation’s programs/projects now focus on the following areas:
• Scholarship grants
• Professorial Chairs
• Research
The organization operates in Quezon City with beneficiaries from different provinces studying and teaching in Ateneo de Manila University.