Virginia · Private foundation
Commonwealth Transfusion 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,663
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 32
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $438k 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 | 32 | $1.5M | 69% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $1.5M | 63% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $740k | 68% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $969k | 79% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $985k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $1.0M | 55% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $866k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Assurance Inc | $1,031,670 | 3 | 1% |
| Sheltering Arms Foundation | $600,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Medical College of Va Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Valley Health Foundation (Vhf) | $289,820 | 1 | 2% |
| Radford University Foundation Inc | $255,084 | 4 | 2% |
| Jsargeant Reynolds Community College Educational Foundation Inc | $157,736 | 1 | 4% |
| Transfusion Antibody Exchange | $110,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Centra Health Inc | $79,770 | 1 | n/a |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mississippi Blood Services Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Commonwealth Transfusion 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: Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation with peer funders
About Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation
- How much does Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation give?
- Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $1,482,501 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 32 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (69%), Education (27%), Science & Tech (1%).
- Who are Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Blood Assurance Inc ($1.0M), Sheltering Arms Foundation ($600k), Medical College of Va Foundation ($500k).
- Does Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Commonwealth Transfusion 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 Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Verizon Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation based?
- Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation is based in VA.
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