Virginia · Private foundation
Awa Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Awa Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $116k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $86k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $109k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $95k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $89k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $64k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $73k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $100k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Patricks Episcopal Church | $67,350 | 7 | n/a |
| The Potomac School | $65,900 | 9 | 0% |
| St Andrew's Episcopal School Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Glass-Glen Burnie Museum Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The National Theatre Foundation | $41,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc | $26,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Citizens for Fauquier County | $24,960 | 3 | 3% |
| Bowdoin College | $24,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Foxcroft School | $24,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Marine Raider Foundation | $19,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($199k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Awa Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dun Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · William M Backer Foundation Inc · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Hall Family Foundation Inc · The Principato Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · McGraw Foundation
How this is measured
About Awa Family Foundation
- How much does Awa Family Foundation give?
- Awa Family Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $115,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Awa Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Arts & Culture (15%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Awa Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Patricks Episcopal Church ($67k), The Potomac School ($66k), St Andrew's Episcopal School Inc ($45k).
- Does Awa Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Awa Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Awa Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dun Foundation, The Luminescence Foundation Inc, Wise Foundation.
- Where is Awa Family Foundation based?
- Awa Family Foundation is based in VA.
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